A10-6800k vs i3-4160 and mobo
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My cousin is going to be sending me 16gb of DDR3 memory eventually, and as far as I read, DDR3 memory with 6th/7th gen processors isn't very optimum, so I figured going a 4th gen instead of having to upgrade both processor and memory when I will get 16gb "free" and a new case because as far as I know a micro atx won't work in my prebuilt case even though the motherboard is current uATX
uATX and mircoATX are the same thing.
Dont bother with DDR3 and skylake/kabylake. The support is not very good.
I personally would rather spend a little more and buy DDR4 memory then paying pretty much full price retail for 2 year old hardware but that is me.
Either way the i3 platform is certianly the better use of money vs trying to upgrade fm2 whether you get 6th/7th gen or 4th gen.
Might also be worth waiting another month for AMD's new Ryzen platform to see how it stacks up vs cost of intel. (will have to get DDR4 for that platform as well)
Dont bother with DDR3 and skylake/kabylake. The support is not very good.
I personally would rather spend a little more and buy DDR4 memory then paying pretty much full price retail for 2 year old hardware but that is me.
Either way the i3 platform is certianly the better use of money vs trying to upgrade fm2 whether you get 6th/7th gen or 4th gen.
Might also be worth waiting another month for AMD's new Ryzen platform to see how it stacks up vs cost of intel. (will have to get DDR4 for that platform as well)
I say go with a G4560 two core four thread cpu, B250 motherboard, and 8GB 2400 DDR4. This should be similar price to a i3 4160 with a 1150 socket motherboard. Even though this means you would give up the 16GB DDR3 This is a much better system. Generational improvements, m.2 slot for SSD, 1151 should have another new cpu later on, possibly a 6 core in coffeelake 2nd half 2018.
Can't figure out replying/quoting on my phone, so uh, @gent, I am not sure of the case atm, I am at school currently but i will get it in a bit, last time I looked it up, I couldn't find it online, @boosted do uatx and matx have the exact same standoffs/screwholes? And true, but I would prefer saving the hundred tbh, @kraelic, I've never really been much of a fan of pentiums, I'm not looking for an all out ssd, I'm going to just later on get a small Sata iii, and in the future when theoretically the build shouldn't support newer games, ill be better financially lol. Oh and for windows, I usually just "get" windows
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