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welcome back to harbor and box for another top five best video once again I will be looking at CPUs in my previous top 5 best CPUs video I picked what I felt to be the best budget CPU best value quad-core best performance desktop CPU best value productivity CPU and the best extreme desktop CPU now that thread Ripper and Rison 3 are out I will have to revisit those category soon but for now I want to do my top 5 best gaming CPU picks as always I will be taking the CPU and the platform costs into consideration and are we breaking things up into five categories rather than just picking 5 models at random and not really explaining why the categories I'm going to include for this one will be best budget CPU best affordable quad-core best value gaming CPU best no-compromise gaming CPU and then the best secondhand deal something a bit different for this one okay so this processor needs no introduction budget shoppers everywhere know the pentium g 4560 upon release it was crowned of the only kb lake cpu south of $300 u.s. worth buying and today that statement is as true as ever that said finding one for the $64 u.s. MSRP seems to be a thing of the past the new price appears to be $80 us or $85 Aussie still that makes it the best sub $100 u.s. CPU for gamers right now and it's the perfect pairing for something like an IR x5 60 or gtx 750ti that said though it will for the most part be able to get the most out of the gtx 1060 or rx 580 so for the money it's pretty hard to beat and really to beat it you've got to dish out some more money it's not interested in an affordable dual-core well then meet the horizon 3 1200 its hands down at the best value quad-core CPU on the market right now and it's excellent for gaming in fact it doesn't even matter if your intention is to game or get some work done nothing comes close for the 110 dollar u.s. price or 150 dollars Aussie the r3 1200 is able to extract the maximum performance from the geforce gtx 1060 and Radeon rx 580 you won't find the CPU creating a bottleneck in any of the modern games either particularly once overclocked overclock the r3 1200 also does very well getting the most out of the gtx 1070 and vega 56 graphics cards so it's certainly a very capable CPU overall and for the money there's really no better option now you can buy the core i5 7600 K for $240 u.s. and this is arguably a better gaming CPU right now certainly does a lot better in tunnels such as csgo and overwatching quite popular esports type titles like that but I just have a feeling that in a year or so time the r5 1600 will end up being head and shoulders above the 7600 K of course that's all just guesswork and I could be completely wrong but that's just a hunch the horizon 5 1600 platform costs are also much lower than that of the core i5 CPU and for those gaming at 1440p with say a gtx 1070 there's going to be little to no difference between the rise and cpu and the slightly more expensive quad core from intel personally i would buy the r5 1600 and this is their very reason i'm recommending it to you guys it's got to be the core i7 7700 K simply nothing touches it when it comes to gaming really there's no amount of money that you can throw at a CPU and get something that will spit more frames out in pretty much all modern titles this could change soon though with the release of the 8th gen core series I will have to wait and see how that pans out anyway for maximum FPS performance right now with something like the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti the core i7 77 Eric 8 is hands-down the best choice if you do anything other than gaming like say content creation for example then it might be a different story but purely for gaming this is as good as it gets right now think of right you 100% nailed it I just I couldn't think of a fifth category to nominate another current generation CPU so here we have it the best secondhand deal of course secondhand shopping it really comes down to the components you already have but assuming no obstacles what CPU should you be looking at getting on the second-hand market given what we recently saw from the 2500 km I rise in three overclocking gaminggod I have to say this thing despite its age is still a beast and a perfect pairing for a modern mid-range graphics card of course if you can get your hands on a 2600 K or any of the unlocked Ivy Bridge Haswell or newer Core i5 and core i7 CPUs for a reasonable price then of course that's an even better deal frankly if you're gaming with the geforce gtx 1060 radeon RX 5 ad or really anything slower than the experience with an overclocked 2500 k is going to be comparable to that of the horizon 3 1200 and likely much better than that of the pentium g 4560 maybe intel can bury Sandy Bridge once and for all with their 8th gen series but I wouldn't count on it well there you have it if you're a gamer looking for the best CPU for your next game area this hopefully will have you quite covered the price range extended from $80 us all the way up to $340 and with a few good options in between now if you liked this video feel free to slap a like on and let us know what your top 5 best gaming CPU list looks like if you have anything else on your mind be sure to share it with us might have opened the floodgates on that one anyway I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys