i5 6500 enough for gaming?

[TreyInc]

My buddy wants me to help him build a computer, I really want to get him a 1070 but his budget can only support an i5 6500 after I get that GPU. If he wants the 1070 and an i7 he'd have to compromise 8gb of ram, his SSD, and his HDD. He games at 1080p and I was wondering if the i5 6500 would be a bottleneck for the GTX 1070, is it worth going for an i7?

 

[neblogai]

He could get very high frame rates at 1080p- but GTX1070 needs something like overclocked 6600K for this GPU to be used better. Or 6600 non-K at the very least, if he is really against overclocking. It is possible that games will catch up graphically in a year or two, but currently gtx1070 is overkill for 1080p and i5 6500.
Going for i7 could be beneficial if he prefers CPU intensive games with hundreds of units, like Total War:Warhammer, Ashes of the Singularity, etc. In most other games, i5 is not any slower, clock for clock, than an i7.

 

[Yansag_1982]

i agree with neblogai, the GTX 1070 with current games is more suited for 1440p gaming and above...if you want it to last a couple years of gaming at ultra settings it's a great buy...but a GTX 1060 is more than enough for 1080p gaming.
i5-6500 is a great choice for a gaming rig.

 

[TreyInc]

Yeah there's no way he can afford anything higher than an i5 6500, but I don't want to cheap out on his GPU either. He's planning on getting a 1440p monitor later on. The total build cost atm is 1089.42 usd.

 

[TofuLion]

what games does he expect to play? the 6500 will be more than enough for 90% of games, and those cpu intensive games will bring even an overclocked i7 to its knees when there's alot going on. the 1070 will do most of the work, most of the time. 1070 is way overkill for 1080p tho. you could get 1080p ultra 60+ fps on a 1060 for like half the price. the only way a 1070 would be useful is if you went with a display capable of 100+ fps.

 

[Yansag_1982]

Yeah there's no way he can afford anything higher than an i5 6500, but I don't want to cheap out on his GPU either. He's planning on getting a 1440p monitor later on. The total build cost atm is 1089.42 usd.

well...if the end goal is doing 1440p gaming and keeping this card for 2 or 3 years...the GTX 1070 IMHO is a much better and safer choice
good luck with the build!

 

[TreyInc]

Yeah there's no way he can afford anything higher than an i5 6500, but I don't want to cheap out on his GPU either. He's planning on getting a 1440p monitor later on. The total build cost atm is 1089.42 usd.

well...if the end goal is doing 1440p gaming and keeping this card for 2 or 3 years...the GTX 1070 IMHO is a much better and safer choice
good luck with the build!

Thanks bro, but you think the i5 6500 is fine right? Because if it's not I'd have to get him a 1060 instead.

 

[Yansag_1982]

Yeah there's no way he can afford anything higher than an i5 6500, but I don't want to cheap out on his GPU either. He's planning on getting a 1440p monitor later on. The total build cost atm is 1089.42 usd.

well...if the end goal is doing 1440p gaming and keeping this card for 2 or 3 years...the GTX 1070 IMHO is a much better and safer choice
good luck with the build!

Thanks bro, but you think the i5 6500 is fine right? Because if it's not I'd have to get him a 1060 instead.

the i5-6500 is a good quad-core CPU for gaming, and he can always upgrade to a faster CPU with hyper-threading in a couple years if he feel like it...for 1080p i'd say an i7-6700 and a GTX 1060 for games that are out right now is a better choice, but in the long run, games will become more and more taxing on the GPU side of things...and if he plan a 1440p monitor upgrade...the 1070 is better.

 

[TreyInc]

what games does he expect to play? the 6500 will be more than enough for 90% of games, and those cpu intensive games will bring even an overclocked i7 to its knees when there's alot going on. the 1070 will do most of the work, most of the time. 1070 is way overkill for 1080p tho. you could get 1080p ultra 60+ fps on a 1060 for like half the price. the only way a 1070 would be useful is if you went with a display capable of 100+ fps.

mostly an mmo called black desert I believe, and rainbow six siege.