Do I need to get i5?

[GrimnirBuilder]

I will be getting 1150 motherboard and have 1 older generation graphics card
I want all 3 of CPU, motherboard and GPU to be around the £100 or lower kind of price.
Motherboard is not that much of an issue but would an i3 processor and older graphics card be too slow and not powerful enough?
As I am getting components that were "good a couple of years ago" I don't mind doing the same with games. So I don't need my PC to be able to play The Witcher 3 at electron microscope settings
Running games from the past that I haven't played yet at 1080 will do me fine, as long a they run smoothly and don't crash or anything

Also, the first game I will be getting is Football Manager, as I haven't played a football manager game for about 15 years and hear they've moved on a lot since then. That game doesn't need high settings right? Just good memory speed?

 

[DelroyMonjo]

I want all 3 of CPU, motherboard and GPU to be around the £100 or lower kind of price.

£100 each or for all 3 items combined?

 

[Billy_4]

Well it depends what games you want to play. Open world games like GTA V and Witcher III will require a fair bit of processing power to run 1080p@60FPS. However other games are far less intensive. If you're looking to run games at low/medium settings the truth is you don't need an atomic cpu. Get a pentium g3258(overclocked) or an i3 4170. Or if you don't mind a gamble, I'd recommend going for used processors. Especially on a budget build, used components will get you a lot more bang for your buck. Don't worry all that much about the cpu, after all in most cases its the GPU that's pulling most of the workload.