A good and cheap(ish) i5 builds for the next year or two?

Guiness The Menace

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Hi,

I would like to get a new i5 build. I'm switching over from AMD. My current build is AMD FX 6300, GTX 970 and 16GB RAM. My CPU is currently bottlenecking my GPU and I'd like to switch over to Intel. I'd just like a build that will last me about 2 years or so where I can play stuff at High-Ultra. I don't want to switch over to Skylake yet because the money spend doesn't seem worth it right now so I'll wait until it's worth it in the future. I'd like the i5 build to cost as little as possible while giving good performance.

Thanks in advance!
 
Re-use your MEM, GPU, HD, PSU and optical drive from your current AMD build. If you have the budget available, the i5-4590 would be a nice upgrade for its higher base clock and turbo speed. Past that, the Xeon 1231 v3 would be your next step (basically an i7-4770 without integrated graphics).

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($169.10 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($61.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($91.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $322.96
 

hatib

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this one will do and don't tell that z97 is for overclocking i know that the reason i went with gaming 5 is because if you wan't to use true surround headset like razer taimat 7.1 then audio boost is gr8
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($263.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($138.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $402.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-11 09:28 EST-0500
 

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