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Originally Posted by ET2SN
Before you commit to a new desktop, consider what you'll be doing with it. 
Are you playing old (5 years or older) games? Will most of your new system's time be spent playing those games or are you heavily into multitasking while you decimate convoys?
This is kind of a loaded example. The majority of games available are designed to run on one core of your CPU. There are some games out there that can run on two or maybe four cores but there aren't that many of them. 
Are you planning to get into streaming on Twitch or uploading videos to YouTube? Broadcasting will put a much heavier workload on your hardware to justify those extra cores. If you're not planning to start your own gaming channel, why over-build your next desktop? 
Getting back to single-core gaming, cores don't mean squat compared to CPU clock speed. Older Intel CPUs ran just fine at 3.95 to 4 GHz. This is their rated clock speed, BTW. No over-clocking required. 
Put some thought into your display before you commit to a desktop. Is a "normal" 2K display that's 2 feet wide what you're thinking about or will the new monitor swallow most of your gaming room? Think this part thru, there's no wrong answer (depending on your budget) but people tend to put the cart before the horse and wind up with either an under-powered CPU/graphics combo or else they over-commit on hardware they will never fully utilize.
Plan for the display you want, then figure out how much horsepower (CPU and GPU) you'll need to run it.
Edit- Check out this thread https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=243475 and I won't end up repeating myself. |
Planning to run two displays, ViewSonic 24". Games: No, not exclusively 5 year old games, I want to get into Battlefield and PUBG, so, AMD Ryzen 5-1600 / Intel Core i5-7600K or better; Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or better
Not planning to watch movies on the PC much, that's what my den is for.
Not planning to stream either.
My current laptop has
i7 6700HQ with 4 cores so I can't see dropping below that with a new system. But you're saying I really don't need something with 12 cores, like the AMD chip discussed above?
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amd-vs-in...mpression=true
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Today's game engines still care more for single threaded performance and raw clock speed than they do about having multiple CPU cores floating around. That extra silicon is great for serious computation and doing many different things at the same time, such as gaming, recording, and streaming, but aren't going to do much to your solo gaming frame rates.
So having a quad-core, eight-thread chip at the heart of your system will be more than enough for a pure PC gamer. And with both Intel and AMD launching head-to-head with new budget chips, with the same specs, it will be fascinating to see who comes out on top.
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Ok, I think I see what you're saying.
