i3 4170 ft. GTX 1060

[Alois_trancy]

What do you guys think? as stated above is it a good pair? i cant go i3 skylake because i already have 1600mhz ram so it save me a buck.

 

[burgessanthony]

It'll be ok. Some games will hammer the i3 and cause less than 100% usage on the gpu. Certain areas of some games will whilst the rest might be fine.

 

[Low Profile Gamer]

Yeah. It'll be a great pair on most games

 

[burgessanthony]

OP - which games did you have in mind?

 

[Alois_trancy]

OP - which games did you have in mind?

wanna play some battlefield 1

 

[burgessanthony]

That's one example where, based on the beta, that i3 may struggle as that beta is pushing i5s to 80%+ across all cores. Should be ok though

 

[theonerm2]

It's a very good pair. You'll be playing Battlefield 1 on Ultra settings very well at 1080p. CPU usage will be 70% to the mid 90's depending on what's happening in the game. The Core i3 4170 can handle it. To set aside any doubts I'll show how my Core i7 4770k does with 2 cores with hyperthreading enabled running at an even lower core clock than the Core i3 4170. Just wait for the video. It's going to be using a GTX 1080.

 

[theonerm2]

The video will be live at https://youtu.be/81DhVgwunjk soon. Watch it. Please excuse my poor skills. I'm not very good at first person shooters.

 

[burgessanthony]

Wouldn't say its handling it. Pegged at 90-100% causing less than max gpu usage.

However, I agree its still plenty for 1080p60.

 

[Faux_Grey]

I've built a friend a system with an i3 4170 and GTX 1070 and he has no issues with any games.

Battlefield 1 beta has major issues with all cores maxed out, don't forget that it is a beta, the same CPU/GPU play BF4 flawlessly at ultra settings.

Wait for BF1 to release properly and optimized before deciding to throw out your CPU.

 

[theonerm2]

Sure the CPU is maxing out but at the same time it's getting 50% or more out of the GTX 1080. A GTX 1060 is about 50% of a GTX 1080. So theoretically it should do good with that gpu.