Hi guys,
I'm on a tight budget and my venerable Core 2 Duo in a micro ATX board is starting to feel stretched. I've noticed that certain games I want to buy are now specced beyond what my CPU can offer. I therefore want to give myself some future expansion and upgrade possibilities, while using as much of my existing hardware as possible. My current setup is:
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L micro ATX board
4GB RAM
Core 2 Duo E8500
Galaxy GeForce GTX 560 GC with 2GB RAM
1TB WD Blue HDD
XFX 650W PSU
My plan is to buy a socket 1151 ATX board (I favour the Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P), two 4GB DDR4 DIMMs and then pick a CPU, keeping everything else and slapping on a fresh copy of Windows.
This is my quandary:
Do go super-cheap and buy a Pentium G4400 or similar, step up a bit to an i3-6100 or go for an i5?
Before anybody says "go super-l33t and get an i7" - I can't justify the expense and don't think I would need the performance. Bear in mind that I probably won't be able to upgrade my GPU (which as far as I can tell peforms about the same as a GeForce 750) for at least another 12 to 15 months. So..... how much do I spend on a CPU to not bottleneck my GPU but give me the headroom to buy a faster one later? Thanks.
I'm on a tight budget and my venerable Core 2 Duo in a micro ATX board is starting to feel stretched. I've noticed that certain games I want to buy are now specced beyond what my CPU can offer. I therefore want to give myself some future expansion and upgrade possibilities, while using as much of my existing hardware as possible. My current setup is:
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L micro ATX board
4GB RAM
Core 2 Duo E8500
Galaxy GeForce GTX 560 GC with 2GB RAM
1TB WD Blue HDD
XFX 650W PSU
My plan is to buy a socket 1151 ATX board (I favour the Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P), two 4GB DDR4 DIMMs and then pick a CPU, keeping everything else and slapping on a fresh copy of Windows.
This is my quandary:
Do go super-cheap and buy a Pentium G4400 or similar, step up a bit to an i3-6100 or go for an i5?
Before anybody says "go super-l33t and get an i7" - I can't justify the expense and don't think I would need the performance. Bear in mind that I probably won't be able to upgrade my GPU (which as far as I can tell peforms about the same as a GeForce 750) for at least another 12 to 15 months. So..... how much do I spend on a CPU to not bottleneck my GPU but give me the headroom to buy a faster one later? Thanks.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram