pc gaming specs

[cdgamerz]

i am getting a gpu soon, is the i5 7400
8gb ddr4 ram
good for gaming?

 

[Rexper]

'Good' is a very relative word. What games do you intend to play and what frame rates are you looking to achieve?

Also, gave you already bought this CPU?

 

[atomicWAR]

not really. OK at best. I suggest either going with Ryzen R5 1600 (6C/12T CPU) or waiting for coffee lake to launch bringing 6C/12T CPUs to Intels mainstream. The day of 4C/4T CPUs being great for gaming are gone. To many games use 8+ threads like Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3, GTA V and others like BF1, Watch Dogs 2, Ghost Recon Wildlands use as many as 16+ threads. I answer a few posts every week about i5s bottlenecking GPUs in games. I can't in good faith recommend an i5 build for gaming until i5s have more cores/threads after coffee lake launches.

 

[atomicWAR]

Honestly 4C/4T is barebones entry level gaming like dual core with hyperthreading was before...4C/8T is entry level (taking the place of 4C/4T before it), 6C/12T is mainstream, 8C/16T is high end main stream.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

i am getting a gpu soon, is the i5 7400
8gb ddr4 ram
good for gaming?

You need a VIDEO CARD to GAME with period. You can't game with just the iGPU built in. Also as noted depends what games your playing what graphics you're going to have it on, how many screens you plan to be using, resolution, etc. Lastly you can't just BUY a GPU, especially for gaming higher end, you also need to REPLACE the PSU to SUPPORT the MORE POWER demand the GPU will place on it.

If you have no clue about any this stuff, please check the TH guides here on the home page, or take it to a Computer friend or Mom and POP Computer store for support. This is where things get risky, technical, and if you make a mistake YOU have to pay for replacements, they won't "swap" out something you accidentally broke.

 

[atomicWAR]

Tom is correct unless your playing strictly esports stuff, and even then its barely enough, You need a good add-in card like a GTX or RX GPU.

 

[cdgamerz]

im getting a GTX 1060