question about upgrading my PC

[moking]

Hello people,

im having the following specs and looking forward to upgrade them:

Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2
AMD Athlon X2 II 2.4 GHz
PowerColor AMD HD 7750 GDDR5 1GB
4GB (2*2GB) kingstone RAMS

im keeping the GPU, but im gonna change the rest...so what do you recommend me ?
i was suggested
Intel Core i5-4440 Haswell 3.1GHz 6M LGA 1150 Quad-Core
Intel Core I3-4130 Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150 54W Dual-Core

Gigabyte GA-H87-HD3 LGA 1150 Motherboard

G.skill RipjawsX 8GB (1 x 8GB) 1866 CL10 1.5V

do you have any other opinions ? im kinda open to any other suggest if it would be giving good performance.
my budget is around those new specs i was suggested (i dont know what they are in USDs cos im not gonna buy them in USDs)

 

[Poprin]

Well... What country are you in because the i3 is significantly cheaper than the i5. What is your approx budget?

 

[Poprin]

Also no point running 1866mhz RAM on a non k processor... Not even any point running it if you don't overclock the K processor... Better off with 2x4gb of 1600mhz.

 

[moking]

im in Egypt, so my budget will be around 400~500 bucks

 

[maddogfargo]

What do you use this PC for?

 

[moking]

mostly gaming and all the rest of what a pc could be used for (internet, music...etc)
and im just updating CPU, RAMS, MB not the GPU

 

[Poprin]

I think that motherboard is a solid choice, I would suggest changing your RAM selection as I mentioned above. 1600mhz is all you need with either of those processors, go for low latency over high speed. As for the processor choice, of course the i5 would be the best choice but depends if you can stretch your budget. If you can't afford the i5 the i3-4130 is a seriously solid processor.

 

[moking]

so the motherboard is a good choice....awesome.
and ill be getting the i5 i believe but if for any reason i couldn't, how would you rate the i3 mentioned as a dual core processor ?
also this ram [Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL10 1.5V] will be good ?

thanks m8

 

[Poprin]

so the motherboard is a good choice....awesome.
and ill be getting the i5 i believe but if for any reason i couldn't, how would you rate the i3 mentioned as a dual core processor ?
also this ram [Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL10 1.5V] will be good ?

thanks m8

Hi moking, sorry about the delay in reply. Yes Kingston RAM is good choice, that looks like a slightly slower latency (CL10), normally most 1600mhz RAM is clocked at CL9 but if it's a good deal on price I would go with that anyway the performance difference would be negligible.

As for the i3, although it is dual core it is hyperthreaded. This in very simple terms means that the operating system will see the processor as a quad core. This is because the processor has 2 cores but 4 threads. Effectively an extra 2 virtual cores. This gives the i3 significantly better performance over a standard dual core processor although not quite as good as a true quad (like the i5).