- Aug 13, 2015
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I am currently in the market for a budget gaming build. I play WoW mostly but would definitely want to play some more demanding games mainly action/adventure genre like Mad Max, Batman Arkham Knight, GTA V etc. I plan to start with a Pentium and work my way upwards to an i5 or i7. I also want the system to be expandable(probably add 2 GTX 950's or 960's in SLI). I only have trouble picking motherboard and CPU. I was thinking of going with a Pentium K G3258, since it can be overclocked pretty easily(even with the Intel HSF), but recently I discovered that the new Skylake Pentiums have been released. So this brings me to my 3 followup questions:
1) Should I get a Haswell Pentium(and more specifically the G3258) or get a Skylake?
2) If I get the Pentium K unlocked CPU, which is the best motherboard to overclock it with 1 click like Gigabyte's Easy Tune software (e.g model Z97-P D3)?
3) Are dual core CPU's limiting in any way? I remember Far Cry 4 couldn't even start if you had less than 4 cores. Am I gonna be better off with an AMD 860K?
Thanks for the help in advance,any information that I've forgot to provide please ask me.
1) Should I get a Haswell Pentium(and more specifically the G3258) or get a Skylake?
2) If I get the Pentium K unlocked CPU, which is the best motherboard to overclock it with 1 click like Gigabyte's Easy Tune software (e.g model Z97-P D3)?
3) Are dual core CPU's limiting in any way? I remember Far Cry 4 couldn't even start if you had less than 4 cores. Am I gonna be better off with an AMD 860K?
Thanks for the help in advance,any information that I've forgot to provide please ask me.
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