Good Hyper-Threaded Intel Processor?

[Isack]

Hello, I am soon going to upgrade my processor and motherboard from an FX 6300 and AsRock Extreme 3 to a Core i5 4690k and a Gigabyte GA-Z97x (LGA1150), and just noticed something to my disappointment. I noticed that my planned CPU upgrade (i5 4690k) doesn't support Hyper-Threading which will help in CPU heavy games that I like such as DayZ. The 4690k is currently $240 and the motherboard is $128. I was wondering if anyone knew of a Hyper-Threaded Intel processor for an LGA 1150 motherboard preferably. If there isn't an LGA1150 processor in my price range, then a suggestion for a motherboard and processor is acceptable($300-$360). My current rig is mainly for gaming and the upgrades are meant to help with game performance. Thanks and help is much appreciated!

 

[CTurbo]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($241.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($73.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $315.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-26 21:59 EDT-0400

 

[Justin Millard]

The i5 is good enough for those games. I am even surprised that the CPU is holding you back. Usually its the graphics card that limits performance. Hyper-threading only gives a 20% CPU boost for programs that can use up all your cores. It usually doesn't make a difference for games unless you have a dual core processor that needs to trick games into thinking its a quad core like the i3.

However if you want hyper-threading you can get the Intel Xeon E3 1231 V3 at not much more cost than a 4690k. It is basically an i7 without integrated graphics and has more memory cache than a i5 as well as Hyper-threading.

 

[Traciatim]

The desktop i5's don't do hyperthreading. Your choices are an i3 which has 2 cores with hyperthreading... and an i7 which has 4 cores and hyperthreading. Generally if you have a budget concern you buy the i5 and sink as much money in to your video card as you can because the differences in gaming between an i5 and i7 aren't huge, but the differences between a $150 dollar video card and a $250 dollar one are usually pretty huge.

Could you link some CPU benchmarks that show FPS results from a repeatable benchmark in DayZ standalone? I couldn't find any. Similar games that claim to need 8 cores or i7's scale very poorly in most benchmarks, like take Farcry 4 as an example: http://www.techspot.com/review/917-far-cry-4-benchmarks/page5.html . . . If you notice the difference between an i5-3570k and 3770k is only 1FPS which can be mostly attributed to it running 100Mhz faster not that it has hyperthreading.

Edit: Keep in mind the Xeon is locked so you don't have great overclocking options if you go that route.

 

[Justin Millard]

Also if buying a new motherboard get one with m.2 for the new SSDs that are coming out. A lot of SSDs will use that slot in the future when they are cheaper and faster than they are now. Gigabyte D3H H97 is a good example of a board (if you don't want two graphics cards or overclocking past turbo speeds). I used that board for a PC I am building for a friend.

 

[leeb2013]

hyperthreading doesn't typically help in CPU intensive games. Everything you read will tell you an I5 is recommended.

 

[Justin Millard]

Games really don't get any benefit out of hyper-threading in an i7 anyway. Hyper-threading doesn't help much in games unless you have a low end CPU like a dual core i3 and need to get it to work like a quad core. In fact a lot of games don't get any benefit from hyper-threading at all in an i7. You can disable it in the BIOS and get the same benchmarks.

 

[Isack]

Also if buying a new motherboard get one with m.2 for the new SSDs that are coming out. A lot of SSDs will use that slot in the future when they are cheaper and faster than they are now. Gigabyte D3H H97 is a good example of a board (if you don't want two graphics cards or overclocking past turbo speeds). I used that board for a PC I am building for a friend.

Thanks for the suggestion and quick reply. I was thinking the same about hyper-threading as I had watched many video comparisons of with and without it. I will most defiantly be going with the i5 now, just wanted to be sure. Thanks