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hey Ron this is steve from gamers x istana and today we're talking about CPUs this is a CPU buyers guide similar to that video card buyer's guide I post a couple days ago back before Black Friday and for this one we're looking at CPUs ranging from about seventy dollars up to 500 plus dollars and obviously there are much more expensive options if you have the budget for it but that's sort of out of the scope of this video because the architecture changes so vastly at that point so starting right away with the low-end CPUs we generally recommend AMD's 860 k at the budget price point the sub 100 dollar range the 860 k is a brand new vary based and the CPU it is similar to the a series AP use except that has the igp the internal the integrated graphics processor disabled so it's just the cpu and that makes it cheaper the 860 k is a quad-core 3.7 gigahertz CPU and it it'll overclock pretty well if you've got a motherboard that'll do it like an 88 board or something like that it is an FM two plus socket so it does use and these more modern socket which we've we've stopped recommending am3+ because frankly it's really sort of a mess at this point with all the aftermarket chips soldered to the different boards FM two plus is fine though and it works well pci III is natively supported USB 3 is natively supported so it's a step in the right direction the 860 k is what you should buy if you're looking to spend about ninety dollars on a processor so this would be for system builds that are in the five hundred dollars at less price range and that's basically you're on a really tight budget and you're probably throwing something like a 750 ti or a 260 x265 something like that in there for the video card and it will play most games pretty well it will run into issues with games like Battlefield 4 that are very thread intensive and it will definitely run into issues with video production professional editing technology Photoshop things like that so you don't want this h-60 k for things like photoshop and professional productions now if you are either not a fan of AMD or you can't quite you don't want the 860 k for one reason or another like higher GDP which really it's not bad but it's still higher than intel or you just don't have the extra twenty dollars to spend intel's g3 258 which is the easiest to remember name in the industry is a is a low TDP solution and it's basically it's a pentium processor it exists solely for the purpose of things like htpc is really ultra budget gaming computer builds and it works very well it'll overclock thirty to fifty percent pretty consistently in my tests you can definitely get it thirty percent overclocks and no problem ships stock at about 3.2 gigahertz 2.1 3.2 and it is a dual-core processor with no hyper threading so you do lose some coors there and yes intel and AMD have different definitions of course but still the AMD solution does perform a bit better in games like Battlefield 4 it is twenty dollars more of course and you might not want it because this will be better for home theater pcs that are less gaming intensive and the games they play might be a little easier on the graphics and on the CPU side of things and this is a seventy dollar processor so it's a bit cheaper lower TDP more efficient but less powerful although it is less powerful it will overclock well so if you're willing to overclock grab a Z series Z class board and clock it up and then you'll get much better performance even in multi-threaded applications moving up to the mid-range we have things like Intel's i5 4440 cpu and this is sort of the 165 dollar price range so if you're buying a little over a hundred but you can't quite afford a 46 90 k for instance then this is where you would be the 44 40 cpu runs stock at 3.1 gigahertz and it is a quad-core solution so it's it's significantly better than the g3 258 that we just looked at and it's still low TDP it still has well architecture so will enable things like self shading smoke and technologies like that which are present in the grid racing game and the 44 40 is what you would buy if you have zero interest or very limited interest and overclocking because it is a lock to CPU you won't be able to overclock it or not much anyway and it's a budget-friendly solution it will perform just fine for really almost every game out there here and it's it'll be fine in some limited production tasks Photoshop really unless you're doing intensive stuff and you know if you are it's not going to be limited and things like that for most average users the higher end users will want to look in the next price range though as for an AMD solution at this price point there is the a-10 7850 k which you would really only by if you wanted a high-end IGP i use as our 7 graphics integrated and that is very good for a an htpc where you dont have space or desire or budget for video card so if you can't afford a discrete card or you dont have space for it or you've got thermal or wattage issues grab the 78 50k performs pretty well you will be stuck at low to medium settings on most games it'll play things like Skyrim just fine on medium and high settings but it will definitely struggle and be unplayable with some games like Assassin's Creed unity or far cry 4 just don't even really expect to play those games on a 7850 k you need a discrete GPU for that now you could run this only a 50k with a GPU then you would be ok but at that point you might as well buy a better processor and you get a GP with it because there's no reason to have the igp in there if you're just off loading it all to a discrete graphics card because dual graphics is really not what it needs to be right now to be worthwhile moving up to the high end we've got Intel's Devil's Canyon processors this is the 46 90 k which is about two hundred ten dollars right now with the sales definitely worth it it's a fork or four thread processor it is not hyper threaded on like the i7 counterpart and it's fully unlocked for overclocking so you can overclock be 46 90 k completely you have very few restrictions do make sure you get the correct is united seven motherboard with it though because even within z97 boards some of them will be more limited than others for overclocking options so that is something to note it will run you a bit more because not only is the processor more expensive but the boards will be more expensive as well because they need to sustain higher voltages and things like that and be more stable on the whole the 46 90 k is clocked at three point five gigahertz natively and it will overclock pretty easily you can pretty much guarantee attend the % overclock depending on what kind of air-cool you're using if you're on liquid than you know it'll go a little higher don't expect too much intel really push Devil's Canyon as being sort of the end-all be-all overclocking solution after as well but it's not quite there it didn't do what everyone expected it to so don't go into this expecting you'll be hitting five gigahertz on air because you probably won't be just realistically still a very good processor it will play every game out there as long as you've got a good GPU with it on high ultramax settings really I've run it to no cpu throttling on this for the most part if you're running a multi-monitor higher resolution set up like a fork a set up then you might run into cpu throttling depending on how many and how powerful GPUs you've got your system so that is something to know it in that case you'd probably want to look a little higher end but at that point you're spending so much money on GPS anyway that it makes sense you'd have a better processor as for the rest of the high-end range there's the i 747 mine DK which is similar to the 46 90 k except it's for its four cores eight threads so it is hyperthreaded hyper threading has very little impact on most modern games battlefield 4 will mate will take more advantage of it because it's a very heavily multi-threaded application most games will not exceed two to four threads of efficient usage so don't buy this thinking it's going to vastly improve your gaming experience for most games it will vastly improve your experience for things like Adobe Premiere and Photoshop which eat all the threads that you make available to those applications so that is where you would be buying a 47 IDK it is priced at three hundred dollars with sales right now it's pretty good hit the links in the description below for all the links to these products and things like that at the high end once you're spending 500 bucks there's the X class processors x99 in this instance haswell-e and those are really for enthusiasts there for production rigs that don't want Zeon's for one reason or another the very good processors but they're so expensive that it's tough to justify for the vast majority of gaming pcs which we generally push toward the 46 90 k or on the budget side the 860 k from AMD or similar of course there's the 44 40 in the middle but the 59 30 k processor is a three point five gigahertz six core cpu it is it's insane and the architecture is insane and it uses quad-channel ddr4 memory so it's vastly different from the rest of the CPUs we've spoken about and for that reason I'm going to cut the recommendation there short because it's so different do look into that if you're looking to spend more than five hundred dollars you're building some kind of high-end production or enthusiast rig and then there are one thousand dollars EP of options as well if you'd prefer those so that is all for this CP buyers guide hit the link in the description below for more information on the cpus for links to where you can buy them and please subscribe please like the video helps us a lot and making more of these and I will see you all next time peace you