i5-6400 or i5-6500

Matsoe

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I want to build a PC, with these specs:
Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2H
MSI GTX 1060 Armor 6GB
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 1x8GB 2400
WD Blue 1TB
Corsair VS550
Corsair Carbide SPEC-M2

I want to get an i5 processor, but should I get the 6400 or 6500. I'm mostly gaming on this PC and some video editing. There's a €35 price difference in my country. Is 2.7 ghz enough or is the €35 worth the 0.5 ghz, also considiring future-proof. That's also why I went with the 1x8gb instead of 2x4gb, if 8gb isn't enough later on.
 
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If you really want to save money and still be able to play games an i3 is plenty, just not great for multitasking, but straight up gaming it's pretty good as you can see in the hardwarecanucks review. I built my nephew an i3/GTX 1060 3GB rig and it does very well @1080p, unless it's something horribly assembled like ArmA 2/3 which doesn't run that great on anything.

http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/Tomb%20Raider%202013_zpsbrhfhmaa.png.html

http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/GTA%20V_zpsgv85qjew.png.html

http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/The%20Division_zpsdutzhlgb.png.html

Great way to save money and be able to play AAA games @1080p without breaking the bank.

MWP0004

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A quote from another thread discussing this.



 
the build is relatively poor throughout

the PSU is lowest grade
I'd go with a 1060 3GB or better a RX480 4GB as a GPU and put that saved money into the other parts of the build.

you could get an i5-7400. the 6400 is a bit too slow imo.
average fps are alright but the drops are a bit too heavy imo.
 

Depending on how long it will be before you get the second 8gb stick if ram, I would recommend getting the 2x4gb kit. At least you would be able to run in dual channel mode for a little extra performance(depending on type of computing you do). Getting two ram modules manufactured at different times, to work together is problematical at best, even if they are the same brand and model. They sell them as matched kits for a reason.

 


Generally you're only looking at a 2 FPS difference between the two @1080p: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/71760-intel-skylake-i5-6500-i5-6400-i3-6100-review-10.html

If I was strapped for cash then I wouldn't hesitate to get an i5 6400, because the difference is really tiny. I built my brother an i5 4440/390X gaming rig and it's great, only saw a dip in Rome 2 which is somewhat CPU intensive (and there would be one in Arma 3 which is super CPU intensive) http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/i52_zps9bz3cxmh.png.html

Also that's on extreme settings @1440p in those benchmarks for Rome 2, not 1080p.
 
If you really want to save money and still be able to play games an i3 is plenty, just not great for multitasking, but straight up gaming it's pretty good as you can see in the hardwarecanucks review. I built my nephew an i3/GTX 1060 3GB rig and it does very well @1080p, unless it's something horribly assembled like ArmA 2/3 which doesn't run that great on anything.

http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/Tomb%20Raider%202013_zpsbrhfhmaa.png.html

http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/GTA%20V_zpsgv85qjew.png.html

http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/The%20Division_zpsdutzhlgb.png.html

Great way to save money and be able to play AAA games @1080p without breaking the bank.

 
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