Older i5 / i7 worth it today?

[jaslion]

I need to make a budget gaming pc for my friend and decided to look for some used prebuilds and then just upgrade the psu and put in my gtx 670 to get him started.

I can find i5 3470 pc's for around 140€
i5 4570 pc's for around 160€

i7 2600's for around 200€
i7 3770's for around 260€
and xeon e3's comparable to the 3770's for 230€ but in busted cases (can just transplant it into a diffrent case I have around sice it's standard form factor parts)

8gb of ram or more for all since I have a bunch leftover.

All have standard form factor parts (just from brand like dell,lenovo,...)

He want's it as cheap as possible so that with the leftover money he can get himself a game or 2.

What would be the best value?

Played games/ wants to play: overwatch, guild wars 2, unreal tournament 2004, assasins creed black flag,gigantic, doom 2016, Nier automata, divinity original sin 1&2, the new tomb raider (currently only owns guild wars, ut2004 abd gigantic)

Upcoming games: the new quake, cyberpunk 2077

I know that all of the above can play these games but I just want him to have the best value he can have for the money since he had to buy a macbook for school since they use 1 proprietary piece of software that is apperantly getting dropped next semester (will sell his macbook then to get a gpu upgrade).

 

[alexandrugalu0]

The i5 4570 is better than all of i5's and i7's you listed above. Which Intel Xeon E3 did you say it was?

 

[n0ns3ns3]

if you can wait a bit with the build, you will be able to secure used i7s like 4770K, 3770K etc for well under 200euro.
the reason is that 8th gen i5s performs about the same as older i7s and cost 200 euros.
so when availability of 8th gen improves, used parts sites will be flooded with cheap older i5 and i7

 

[jaslion]

if you can wait a bit with the build, you will be able to secure used i7s like 4770K, 3770K etc for well under 200euro.
the reason is that 8th gen i5s performs about the same as older i7s and cost 200 euros.
so when availability of 8th gen improves, used parts sites will be flooded with cheap older i5 and i7

These are complete systems not just cpu's.

 

[jaslion]

The i5 4570 is better than all of i5's and i7's you listed above. Which Intel Xeon E3 did you say it was?

xeon e3 1240v2

 

[alexandrugalu0]

The i5 4570 is better than all of i5's and i7's you listed above. Which Intel Xeon E3 did you say it was?

xeon e3 1240v2

In this case the i5 4570 is the best for you, not only it performes better than the other listed by you in gaming, but in multi tasking etc..

 

[jaslion]

The i5 4570 is better than all of i5's and i7's you listed above. Which Intel Xeon E3 did you say it was?

xeon e3 1240v2

In this case the i5 4570 is the best for you, not only it performes better than the other listed by you in gaming, but in multi tasking etc..

Fair enough I made an offer and now I'll see if he takes it. Bonus point that it's a nice looking dell .

 

[Greg Gregorich]

i7 3770 its the best from this list but if you can see the GPU`S on thous builds go with your gut

 

[why_wolf]

Older Intel CPUs really don't hold anything back. That old GPU will of course.
https://youtu.be/6dHCQOt5Nns

 

[Eximo]

i5-4570 with a GTX670 is a pretty decent build for the games listed, expect maybe tomb raider. That might have to run at some pretty low settings.

And if you haven't, check out the new Unreal Tournament. Free to play and it is a pretty good match for the original UT and UT3. (I wasn't much of a fan of 2k3 and 2k4, they felt like clones of other games)

 

[jaslion]

i5-4570 with a GTX670 is a pretty decent build for the games listed, expect maybe tomb raider. That might have to run at some pretty low settings.

And if you haven't, check out the new Unreal Tournament. Free to play and it is a pretty good match for the original UT and UT3. (I wasn't much of a fan of 2k3 and 2k4, they felt like clones of other games)

UT4 is good be he and myself included prefer 2k4. It's just ut3 felt to much like a console fps and the original UT is just a lesser version of 2004. 2003 was a direct graphical and control upgrade of ut99 and 2004 was 2003 but actually finished now.

The 670 will be replaced as soon as his macbook is sold (we got it from a pretty computer illiterate person that thought it was broken because it no longer started so she bought a new one. I offered to fix it but she was like don't bother it's broken (????) So we got pretty much the highest end late 2012 macbook pro for 400€).

 

[n0ns3ns3]

try to get i7 3d gen and up then.
it will be better in long term.

 

[jankerson]

Older Intel CPUs really don't hold anything back. That old GPU will of course.
https://youtu.be/6dHCQOt5Nns

Nope they really don't.

Here is another one showing an I5 750 vs I5 8600K running a GTX 1080Ti.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpRGhVo9jxs"][/video]

 

[n0ns3ns3]

3rd gen and up i7 are totally fine