Looking to upgrade to I5

[Gubs125]

Looking for an I5 and MOBO for gaming, What is the best combo I can buy for £200

500w PSU
GTX 970
8Gb Ram
Fx 6300
2 HDD - 1TB + 500Gb

 

[Dieffe]

you need ram too, skylake need ddr4 and with 200£ is hard. i5-6500 is the only worth (i5-6400 has a clock speed too low) and cost £160 at least, then u need 50£ for a entry level mobo like the asrock h110 plus 8gb of ram. Otherwise you should stay on Haswell Architecture but it's dead and abandoned with no possibilities to upgrade in the future without changing everything again. Skylake and LGA 1151 is going to be used for next generation too.

 

[RCFProd]

you need ram too, skylake need ddr4 and with 200£ is hard. i5-6500 is the only worth (i5-6400 has a clock speed too low) and cost £160 at least, then u need 50£ for a entry level mobo like the asrock h110 plus 8gb of ram. Otherwise you should stay on Haswell Architecture but it's dead and abandoned with no possibilities to upgrade in the future without changing everything again. Skylake and LGA 1151 is going to be used for next generation too.

Just to clarify, 2.7 Ghz on the i5-6400 looks low, but It's turbo frequency is 3.3 Ghz. Which is alright.

And yeah, It's true. DDR3 RAM is not officially supported with Skylake, so DDR4 RAM is recommended:
http://wccftech.com/skylake-does-not-support-ddr3-damage-ddr3l-only/

So Skylake isn't possible within 200 quid, this is the best you can do with Haswell:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£149.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£53.68 @ More Computers)
Total: £203.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-20 18:42 GMT+0000

 

[Dieffe]

you need ram too, skylake need ddr4 and with 200£ is hard. i5-6500 is the only worth (i5-6400 has a clock speed too low) and cost £160 at least, then u need 50£ for a entry level mobo like the asrock h110 plus 8gb of ram. Otherwise you should stay on Haswell Architecture but it's dead and abandoned with no possibilities to upgrade in the future without changing everything again. Skylake and LGA 1151 is going to be used for next generation too.

Just to clarify, 2.7 Ghz on the i5-6400 looks low, but It's turbo frequency is 3.3 Ghz. Which is alright.

And yeah, It's true. DDR3 RAM is not officially supported with Skylake, so DDR4 RAM is recommended:
http://wccftech.com/skylake-does-not-support-ddr3-damage-ddr3l-only/

So Skylake isn't possible within 200 quid, this is the best you can do with Haswell:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£149.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£53.68 @ More Computers)
Total: £203.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-20 18:42 GMT+0000

that's what he can do with the money but i would not buy it if I had to stay on old generation, probably he could upgrade just the cpu with a more powerful FX cpu, even used.

 

[RCFProd]

I'm sure he will notice the difference between the i5-4460 and an FX-6300 though, quite a big difference between the two. Also quite suitable because he is using a 500 watts power supply and already pushing the GTX 970 with it. The less TDP Intel CPU will help I imagine, less load on the power supply. And if he has a 95w TDP AMD motherboard, then upgrading to an AMD FX-8 core might have caused throttling on his motherboard anyways.

 

[Dieffe]

yeah he will notice the difference but he is going to buy an abandoned architecture with no possibilities to upgrade in the future without changing everything again. If he raises the budget just few pounds he could get an i5-6500, an entry level mobo with b150/h110 chipset and some ddr4 ram, he just need 40£ more.

sorry fo the english i'm italian

 

[sizzling]

Also the FX8xxx range don't give much over the 6300 in most games, they still have weak single core performance. I would opt for a 4690 for its much higher boost speed but te 4460 is still a great upgrade

 

[RCFProd]

Here's one with a faster Haswell i5:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£160.89 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-E34 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£44.74 @ More Computers)
Total: £205.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-20 19:03 GMT+0000