I want to upgrade my PC and so I looked at the Tom's CPU chart here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html
I am confused by the wild price differences. There seem to be CPUs in the top tier that as as cheap as $190 and as expensive as $3,000. How can they be in the same tier?
I have an old LG1150 board with a Intel Pentium G3258 Haswell Dual-Core 3.2GHz LGA 1150. I think it is my bottleneck. When I saw tier 1 CPUs as cheap as $190 I thought I might be able to jump all the way to the top tier - which seems impossible for my budget.
Can anyone help me with a path? What is the best CPU jump I can get while keeping my LG1150? Or is it time to upgrade to a new board and grab one of those inexpensive Intel Core i5-6400?
Thanks so much for any help - my full stats are:
- Case: Antec NEW SOLUTION SERIES VSK-4000 Black SGCC steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
- CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 Haswell Dual-Core 3.2GHz LGA 1150 53W BX80646G3258 Desktop Processor
- Mobo: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 LGA 1150 Intel H81 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
- RAM: (2) G.SKILL NS Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C11S-4GNS
- GPU: 1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series (ATI AIB) 40 °C ((1680x1050@60Hz))
- HD: 465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKS-75A7B0 ATA Device (SATA) 30 °
Thanks - keep in mind I am a dad of two teens so I am not swimming in money here
I am confused by the wild price differences. There seem to be CPUs in the top tier that as as cheap as $190 and as expensive as $3,000. How can they be in the same tier?
I have an old LG1150 board with a Intel Pentium G3258 Haswell Dual-Core 3.2GHz LGA 1150. I think it is my bottleneck. When I saw tier 1 CPUs as cheap as $190 I thought I might be able to jump all the way to the top tier - which seems impossible for my budget.
Can anyone help me with a path? What is the best CPU jump I can get while keeping my LG1150? Or is it time to upgrade to a new board and grab one of those inexpensive Intel Core i5-6400?
Thanks so much for any help - my full stats are:
- Case: Antec NEW SOLUTION SERIES VSK-4000 Black SGCC steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
- CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 Haswell Dual-Core 3.2GHz LGA 1150 53W BX80646G3258 Desktop Processor
- Mobo: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 LGA 1150 Intel H81 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
- RAM: (2) G.SKILL NS Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C11S-4GNS
- GPU: 1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series (ATI AIB) 40 °C ((1680x1050@60Hz))
- HD: 465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKS-75A7B0 ATA Device (SATA) 30 °
Thanks - keep in mind I am a dad of two teens so I am not swimming in money here