I5 4460 + gtx 750 ti or fx 6300 + gtx 960 2gb

xsient · Jul 24, 2015

Total budget is around 600€ (europe) I need some advice about which cpu/gpu combo is the best.

Bossyfins · Jul 24, 2015

I would go in between those, try an i3 with a 960

airwalkrr · Jul 24, 2015

I recommend the i5. The FX 6300 is overpriced but might offer you more tweaking capabilities if you are more familiar with AMDs.

However, the answer to your question could depend upon the purpose. Gaming? Video editing/rendering? Graphics design? Typical household use (browsing the Internet and multimedia)?

logainofhades · Jul 24, 2015

Bossyfins :

I agree with this. The i3 can be upgraded to the superior i5, later on. FX 6300 doesn't really have an upgrade that is worth spending the money on.

IntelTurtleFan · Jul 24, 2015

Ether a i3 or G3258. The 3258 can overclock easily to 4.1-4.2 on the stock cooler with an H97 or B series mobo. Maybe wait for the new Intel release in a few days/week or 2 and see if you can get current i5 for cheaper.

Diganta Das · Jul 25, 2015

get the i3 and the 960. That will be best. you can upgrade the i3 to i5 later.

xsient · Jul 26, 2015

Thanks for all your answers, this pc will be used for mostly gaming and browsing etc. I'll wait for intel to release their new products and try to pick up an i5 with an gtx 960. Is the gtx 750ti still any good? I will be playing games like cs go, battlefield 4, far cry 4 (That's why I'm concerned about the i3 being dual core) and star wars battlefront when it releases.

Outlander_04 · Jul 26, 2015

The i3 or Pentium option is a huge fail online.

Of the i5 or fx choice the FX will give you more performance right now.
But yot have to use a board with a 970 series chip set , a d you have to overclock in the 4 to 4.2 GHz range

xsient · Jul 26, 2015

What would be the best i3 + mobo to go with then?

velo3100 · Jul 26, 2015

I would go with the fx 6300 and the gtx 960 is a better combo than the other one that you listed.

airwalkrr · Jul 27, 2015

I'm revising my answer based on your feedback. (But I still say ignore the FX 6300 option.)

The only reason to go with a gtx 750ti over a gtx 960 is budget. The gtx 960 is superior in all respects. I'd only do a gtx 750ti at this point if building a budget machine and I found an amazing price for the gtx 750ti.

Since gaming is your purpose, the video card becomes even more important. The i3 is almost as good as the FX 6300 on benchmarks, and the 960 is a vastly superior card to the 750ti.

airwalkrr · Jul 27, 2015

For the i3 motherboard an ASRock or Gigabyte gaming motherboard that is within your overall budget would be a wise investment. I don't know what this comes to in Euro, but since the Euro has more purchasing power than the Dollar you should be within budget even if prices in your area are different. It could probably be tweaked a bit by others with a little more know-how.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4370 3.8GHz Dual-Core Processor ($142.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($187.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($209.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $540.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-27 11:06 EDT-0400

logainofhades · Jul 27, 2015

airwalkrr :

Not a good suggestion, at all. At that cost, you could have managed an i5 with an H97 board.

As others have stated ignore the FX 6300 option. The i3 is superior to FX 6300 in all, but the most threaded, of situations. It has to be overclocked to match, or beat i3. Spending the money to do that, you are just as well off going with an H81 board, with an i5.

OP, is this budget for a complete system?

xsient · Jul 27, 2015

600-650€ is the budget I have for all the parts (no os and case needed) So that leaves about 200€ left for the cpu/mobo. The gpu will most likely be the MSI gtx 960 2gb because i can't find any r9 2xx anywhere. So if anyone could give me a good cpu/mobo where the i3 can be upgraded to an i5 later on it would be very helpful. Thank you.

logainofhades · Jul 27, 2015

A little over 600, but with an i5 and R9 380, which = an R9 285.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (€189.90 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-E34 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€55.37 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€45.71 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€56.61 @ Home of Hardware DE)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card (€197.92 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€66.89 @ Home of Hardware DE)
Total: €612.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-27 20:24 CEST+0200

xsient · Jul 27, 2015

Thank you very much for the build. I'll pick your answer as solution and show you what build I end up with when all the parts arrived

Diganta Das · Aug 7, 2015

logainofhades has given a good suggestion but I would still go with a nvidia card considering the fact that most games these days are optimized for nvidia

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