i5 6402p with Gtx 1060

[ozi2708]

Hi there,
I am building my first PC and this is gonna be a bugdet build. And now one of my friends is considering to sell his quite new i5 6402p for a good price, which still has a warranty etc.
Will I face any problems with this CPU with Gtx 1060, or should I consider buying a i5 6500 as minimum. I know that p series has it's integrated graphics gimped but I will not be using that anyway.
Thanks in advance.

 

[CTurbo]

The i5 6500 would be better, but the 6402 would be fine as well. The i5's are strong. Even with a 2.8ghz base clock.

 

[hamster66]

6402 is good enough. It has 4 core turbo of 3200ghz, while 6500 has only 100 more - 3300ghz. So in games difference should be negligible.

 

[CTurbo]

The i5 6402 has a base clock of 2.8ghz and a turbo speed of 3.4ghz.

The i5 6500 has a base clock of 3.2ghz and a turbo speed of 3.6ghz.

I agree that the difference would likely be negligible most of the time.

 

[hamster66]

You are aware of how intel turbo works, right? Speed value depends on core count, for 6402/6500 it looks like this:

base: 2800 / 3200
1 core turbo: 3400 / 3600
2 core turbo: 3400 / 3500
3 core turbo: 3300 / 3400
4 core turbo: 3200 / 3300

Given sufficient cooling (and stock cooler is more then enough) under heavy load cpu defaults to 4 core turbo. Hence real life difference between 6402 and 6500 is usually 100ghz.

 

[CTurbo]

Yes of course. I don't believe there was an argument there. I even agreed the difference would be negligible most of the time.

 

[Hank_5]

I've paired my 6402 with a 1070 and it holds up pretty well, so 1060 would be good.

 

[ozi2708]

Thank you all for your help and comments guys, you really have helped me and my worries are gone.