The Best CPU for High End Steam Gaming (Help)

[crispykiller96]

Hi there quick question I'm planning a new computer build and needed some advice firstly the sole purpose of this pc is for steam gaming i do very little other things just general web browsing music YouTube very little demanding tasks i need a solid CPU that will run great for desktop functions as well as high end gaming

My pickle is choosing the right processor its a fight between

AMD FX-8350 8-Core 4GHz Socket AM3+ 16MB Cache
Intel i5 4670K 3.4GHz Socket 1150 Quad Core Haswell

The i5 is £20 more then the FX but reading many forums conclude that the i5 is better at games with single threaded performance then the FX now i have looked at the Core i7 4770K but correct me if I'm wrong doesn't improve all that much for gaming more of a adobe/programmers CPU and wont do me any justice for gaming and being £70 more or will games take advantage of the i7 features in the future please give me some tips from upgrading from my 4 year old Phenom ii (955) GTX 460 (768mb ) i plan on using my old case 1333mhz ram DVD drive and psu to save costs i could stretch for an i7 processor socket 1150 but that's pushing it as I'm also getting the GTX 780 2GB DDR5 Toshiba SSD and possibly upgrading too 1600MHZ ram

Thanks in advance

Joe

(Edit)
I also plan and doing a healthy 20% overclock on stock cooling to improve FPS slightly in games

 

[dashboy1998]

Hi there quick question I'm planning a new computer build and needed some advice firstly the sole purpose of this pc is for steam gaming i do very little other things just general web browsing music YouTube very little demanding tasks i need a solid CPU that will run great for desktop functions as well as high end gaming

My pickle is choosing the right processor its a fight between

AMD FX-8350 8-Core 4GHz Socket AM3+ 16MB Cache
Intel i5 4670K 3.4GHz Socket 1150 Quad Core Haswell

The i5 is £20 more then the FX but reading many forums conclude that the i5 is better at games with single threaded performance then the FX now i have looked at the Core i7 4770K but correct me if I'm wrong doesn't improve all that much for gaming more of a adobe/programmers CPU and wont do me any justice for gaming and being £70 more or will games take advantage of the i7 features in the future please give me some tips from upgrading from my 4 year old Phenom ii (955) GTX 460 (768mb ) i plan on using my old case 1333mhz ram DVD drive and psu to save costs i could stretch for an i7 processor socket 1150 but that's pushing it as I'm also getting the GTX 780 2GB DDR5 Toshiba SSD and possibly upgrading too 1600MHZ ram

Thanks in advance

Joe

(Edit)
I also plan and doing a healthy 20% overclock on stock cooling to improve FPS slightly in games

Get the I5-4670k it's alot better and the I7 is better for video editing not gaming like you said.
RAM: 1333Mhz will be fine nothing is gained in having 1600Mhz (Nothing worth the money)
Keep/use the DVD drive
What PSU is it?
How much RAM?
Overclocking that CPU 20% on stock cooler will kill the CPU in a heart beat

 

[Someone Somewhere]

i5-4670K.

I'd stick with the 1333MT/s RAM. Not much slower than 1600, and you can OC it up.

Getting to ~4080MHz on stock cooling is unlikely. You'll want something like a CM Hyper 212 Evo.

What MB do you plan on getting?

 

[Whammy]

Yes, i5 4670k is the way to go.

 

[crispykiller96]

i5-4670K.

I'd stick with the 1333MT/s RAM. Not much slower than 1600, and you can OC it up.

Getting to ~4080MHz on stock cooling is unlikely. You'll want something like a CM Hyper 212 Evo.

What MB do you plan on getting?

Ok mate i will stick to the 1333mhz ram and maybe slightly clock it up in the future if necessary the motherboard is still in the thinking area but proberly something midrange looking at the ASRock H87M PRO4 Intel H87 seems to have everything i need onboard video 6Gbs sata ports PCI Express 3.0 USB 3.0 and more importantly fairly cheap
i will stick with the stock CPU frequency until i get a better heatsink

 

[AnEwG]

Amazingly though BF4 a well multi threaded game had the i5-4670k beaten by the FX-8350 although only by 3 fps.

 

[crispykiller96]

Hi there quick question I'm planning a new computer build and needed some advice firstly the sole purpose of this pc is for steam gaming i do very little other things just general web browsing music YouTube very little demanding tasks i need a solid CPU that will run great for desktop functions as well as high end gaming

My pickle is choosing the right processor its a fight between

AMD FX-8350 8-Core 4GHz Socket AM3+ 16MB Cache
Intel i5 4670K 3.4GHz Socket 1150 Quad Core Haswell

The i5 is £20 more then the FX but reading many forums conclude that the i5 is better at games with single threaded performance then the FX now i have looked at the Core i7 4770K but correct me if I'm wrong doesn't improve all that much for gaming more of a adobe/programmers CPU and wont do me any justice for gaming and being £70 more or will games take advantage of the i7 features in the future please give me some tips from upgrading from my 4 year old Phenom ii (955) GTX 460 (768mb ) i plan on using my old case 1333mhz ram DVD drive and psu to save costs i could stretch for an i7 processor socket 1150 but that's pushing it as I'm also getting the GTX 780 2GB DDR5 Toshiba SSD and possibly upgrading too 1600MHZ ram

Thanks in advance

Joe

(Edit)
I also plan and doing a healthy 20% overclock on stock cooling to improve FPS slightly in games

Get the I5-4670k it's alot better and the I7 is better for video editing not gaming like you said.
RAM: 1333Mhz will be fine nothing is gained in having 1600Mhz (Nothing worth the money)
Keep/use the DVD drive
What PSU is it?
How much RAM?
Overclocking that CPU 20% on stock cooler will kill the CPU in a heart beat

Ok mate will leave the CPU be for now until i get a better heatsink the PSU is a Powercool 850 watt 80+ rating and 8GB of DDR3 1333mhz which should do the trick nicely seems like the I5-4670k is the best way to go also seems more power efficient then the 8350

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Can't OC on an H87 board; you need Z87. I'd suggest the GA-Z87X-D3H or Z87 Extreme4. Both have decent VRMs.

What's the PSU?

 

[Wisecracker]

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