What Cpu/overall rig for Gaming Rendering Programming Recording

[Benjamin the great]

i am looking for a good processor to do Gaming Rendering Recording and programming.
(this is a system upgrade im talking about but i will swap out quite a few parts)

i want the pc to run the more demanding games with at least decent framerate and okay graphics
while recording and i want to do rendering and i want to be able to run alot of unoptimised code Eg. a game in heavy dev.

i have been looking at following:

AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition FX-8320E 3.2GHz (1.091 kr 164,08 USD ) am3+

AMD FX-8320 3,5GHz 1.176 dkk 176,86 USD AM3+

I5-4690 1.788 dkk 268,90 USD lga 1150

I5-4690k 1.875 dkk 281,99 USD lga 1150

Xeon e3-1231v3 1.999 dkk 300,64 USD lga 1150 what i think ill pick

I7-4790 2.421 dkk 364,10 USD lga 1150

I7-4790k 2.689 dkk 404,41 USD lga 1150

I7-5820k 3.098 dkk 465,92 USD i wont go any higher in price. lga 2011


The system i want to upgrade:

R9 380 (might swap it out but not in the near future)
(performance: gtx 960 < R9 380 < gtx 970)

Cpu: Amd x4 955 or so
No idea what cooler that is on. It looks like a pretty standard aftermarket cooler.

Some old cheap asus AM3+ motherboard (dont mind swapping that out).

mx100 256 gb ssd. Will add another later. (A bigger one)

Cheap atx sized case. (might swap it out).

CX600 powersupply from. corsair (600 watt).

any help would be nice

eg. what kind of motherboard would be best for this and this cpu and what cpu would be ideal.

a place to look at prices: http://www.pricerunner.dk/

there is about a 25% import fee from outside of EU btw.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Hi. For me:

The 8320E is out because it is too slow for the small price-saving.
The 8320 seems to be the budget solution, but you need to factor in the better motherboard,and PSU you might need if you overclock it. I'm using German euro prices.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (€139.90 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (€82.58 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €222.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-29 19:01 CEST+0200

The i5 4690 is good and is the budget Intel solution, although the i5 4460 or 4590 are both decent alternatives.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€227.86 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€75.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €303.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-29 19:02 CEST+0200

The Xeon, which I use on this system, is a locked i7 without an iGPU and some extra instructions and will run ECC.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (€257.84 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€75.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €333.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-29 19:08 CEST+0200


The 4690K is more expensive, needs a better motherboard, and I'd use 2400Mhz memory too. I selected a great overclocking/gaming motherboard.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€240.79 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€132.84 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €373.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-29 19:06 CEST+0200

The 4790 locked is not worth it over the Xeon.

The i7 4790K is fast even if not overclocked, but not really worth the price unless you do.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (€343.47 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€132.84 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €476.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-29 19:10 CEST+0200

Lastly, the i7 5820K is great but hugely expensive and you need DDR4 memory. You only get the benefit if you can consistently use all six of those powerful, fast cores.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor (€378.79 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (€210.55 @ Mindfactory)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (€61.88 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €651.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-29 19:14 CEST+0200

If you want to overclock and gamin is the most important thing you do, I'd go with the i5 4690K, otherwise, the Xeon.

If you are using this system as a moneymaker, then a different calculation is needed.

 

[Xibyth]

Is there a game in particular you are talking about. Generally you can accomplish all the things you are attempting with a GPU alone. Any current GPU from Nvidia or AMD has a built in H.264 controller, only has 3-10% performance impact on the framerate of the game itself. Nvidia's Shadowplay does perform much better than AMD and the Rator capturing software.

Please specify the actual tasks you are trying to accomplish so we can better guage your needs and what fits them best. Programming can be any number of things from massive number crunching sequences to editing and .ini with notepad++. Different things require vastly different hardware levels.

 

[Benjamin the great]

Hi. For me:

The 8320E is out because it is too slow for the small price-saving.
The 8320 seems to be the budget solution, but you need to factor in the better motherboard,and PSU you might need if you overclock it. I'm using German euro prices.....

Thanks for the quick response. I think ill go with the Xeon because i dont need to do overclocking and i like my warranties.

 

[Benjamin the great]

Is there a game in particular you are talking about. Generally you can accomplish all the things you are attempting with a GPU alone. Any current GPU from Nvidia or AMD has a built in H.264 controller, only has 3-10% performance impact on the framerate of the game itself. Nvidia's Shadowplay does perform much better than AMD and the Rator capturing software.

Please specify the actual tasks you are trying to accomplish so we can better guage your needs and what fits them best. Programming can be any number of things from massive number crunching sequences to editing and .ini with notepad++. Different things require vastly different hardware levels.

I will be playing games like GTA , Ark survival.
The type of work related to programming is just running unoptimized code while having the computer to monitor every calculation and resource usage but i think the xeon will do just fine.

 

[Benjamin the great]

Is there a game in particular you are talking about. Generally you can accomplish all the things you are attempting with a GPU alone. Any current GPU from Nvidia or AMD has a built in H.264 controller, only has 3-10% performance impact on the framerate of the game itself. Nvidia's Shadowplay does perform much better than AMD and the Rator capturing software.

Please specify the actual tasks you are trying to accomplish so we can better guage your needs and what fits them best. Programming can be any number of things from massive number crunching sequences to editing and .ini with notepad++. Different things require vastly different hardware levels.

I will be playing games like GTA , Ark survival.
The type of work related to programming is just running unoptimized code while having the computer to monitor every calculation and resource usage but i think the xeon will do just fine.

 

[Xibyth]

The Xeon will do great due to the support for ECC memory.