which will be better for gaming

[Alaa emad]

im confused between buying i3 4150 and r9 270 or i5 4440 and r7 265
i will be gaming on 1366*768 might upgrade cpu in 2 or 3 years

 

[J_E_D_70]

I'd get the i5 now and get a new gpu in a couple of years instead.

 

[Justin Millard]

I agree. The difference between those two graphics cards is small whereas the difference between the CPUs will make a massive difference in some games and programs. R7 265 is brilliant for that resolution in any case.

 

[Alaa emad]

How long can this cpu stay ?

 

[Justin Millard]

Honestly you could run it comfortably for the next three years at least. Basically the i5 will work brilliantly for games until you decide to build an entirely new system. If the games coming out in three years time require more CPU power you should be able to easily upgrade to a high end broadwell i5 or i7 in the future.

 

[Alaa emad]

Thank you

 

[Alaa emad]

Which chipsets will support broadwell ?

 

[Justin Millard]

H97 supports broadwell as well. The difference between a H97 motherboard and Z97 is one has more overclocking capabilities. Z97 will mainly only be useful to you if you buy a k chip for overclocking like the i5 4690k.

Skylake will be on a completely different motherboard socket to haswell and broadwell because it uses DDR4 RAM.

 

[Alaa emad]

Are they releasing 2 differnt cpus in one time?

 

[Justin Millard]

Yeah they both come out around the second half of the year. Broadwell is high speed ddr3 and skylake is going to have ddr4 and a couple of other new features. You can't actually buy a motherboard for skylake yet anyway.

Nothing really to worry about though if you think you might miss out on one or the other. An i5 4440 is brilliant and you won't get much benefit from waiting to upgrade.

Once you have an i5 you'll find that the quality of your performance in games will be dependent on the graphics card, and it won't be the CPU bottlenecking performance. Whereas with the i3 you might find it holds you back a bit in the future with it not being a quad core.