Massive build upgrade from lga775 towards actual generation AMD or INTEL (yes again)

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Been runing this rig for a while. but now time has come it is dying and need revival:
e8400
asus p5n72-tpremium
powersupply pc power and cooling 750w silencer red
ssd kingston v200 120g
some hardrives(3)
for the case I am refiting a old antec P180
gtx 460 se

ANyway those argument are useless. i need a new motherboard/cpu/ram and ^possibly a new card but it can wait
Ive been reading a lot but i cant decide between amd or intel skylake (k and non k)

I want my build to last as much as possible but I'm also fucking poor because i'm a student
SO i need it to be cheap but to last as well.
I could put more money now and just eat less for a few months too. ( who needs eating when u have a computer).

i'm overclocking my curent build and love doing so . idk if i should sacrifice this hobby for the sake of my poorness. If i still can get a decent lasting build for less money.

THanks a lot guys!!!!



 
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This gives you a fair measure of the performance of each CPU
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Last time I looked (in September 15 when I built this PC), either a i5 4460 or a i5 4690k were the best value for money (Maximise power/cost).
Skylake is faster, but I'm not convinced it is worth the extra $$$
My son is still happily gaming on a 7 year old PC (very fast quad core when new), so buying good quality means you get very good value for your money in the end.
BTW, if you buy a motherboard with a good VRM...
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Well, its hard to recommend anything with out a range for a budget. Because I would recommend skylake but its quite expensive versus AMD.

As for k and non k versions of skylake, it essentially means you can overclock it, so if you want to suck every drop of performance go for k versions, but otherwise non k versions are great and tend to be priced lower.

if you are going for pure budget I would go for AMD-8350 (8 cores at 4ghz) or even the AMD-6350 (6 cores at 3.9ghz) and pair it up with 8 gigs of crucial/kingston/corsair/g.skill/adata (and other) ram, and a cheap mobo. This in all would probably set you back 260-300$ and you can still cut back on price a bit.
 
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Was thinking about around 650$ canadian for upgrading rig as of now and like later 250 for a proper graphic card.
the 650 is flexible like i can probly put about 150+ on it at the expense of quality of life ;)
 
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This gives you a fair measure of the performance of each CPU
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Last time I looked (in September 15 when I built this PC), either a i5 4460 or a i5 4690k were the best value for money (Maximise power/cost).
Skylake is faster, but I'm not convinced it is worth the extra $$$
My son is still happily gaming on a 7 year old PC (very fast quad core when new), so buying good quality means you get very good value for your money in the end.
BTW, if you buy a motherboard with a good VRM design, you can overclock on a h81 board.... see my signature for more details.
Alternatively, Asrock have bought out Skylake BCLK overclocking, but I don't know anyone who has used it yet.
 
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