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welcome back to harbor unbox for another top 5 series video once again I will be looking at CPUs in my previous top 5 CPUs video I picked what I felt was the best budget CPU best value all around a CPU best value productivity CPU best performing gaming CPU and the best extreme desktop CPU this time though we are going to be focusing solely on gaming performance so we're picking each CPU based on almost nothing other than it's gaming performance for the close fought battles though we will take things like platform cost into account but for the most part it really will be all about those glorious frames per second so for this one the categories will include the best sort of entry level gaming CPU so a cheap pic there then the best affordable CPUs that's just spending a little bit more money and then the best value CPUs that really can be any price there it's just which CPU offers the best value for whatever reasons and then of course the best no compromises gaming CPU as a bonus once again we will be doing the best secondhand deal so without wasting any more time let's get into it previously the pentium g 4560 claimed the best budget gaming cpu category at the time it really couldn't be touched for well under $100 US this year though saw the release of the risin 320 200 G and with an MSRP of just $100 u.s. this quad core processor offers way more power for not a great deal more as a bonus you also get entry level like discrete GPU performance with the integrated Vega 8 GPU other alternatives in this price range include the horizon 3 1200 which is basically inferior to the 2200 G in every way and then we have the Intel Core i3 8100 the core i3 processor is very similar when it comes to gaming performance and actually depending on the game used it can be faster that said it does also cost $20 us more on with years of life still ahead for the am 4 platform we feel budget gamers probably are better off with the 2200 G as it is just a considerably better investment or should prove to be a considerably better investment down the track right so last year we did name the rise in three 1200 which at the time was selling for just a hundred and ten dollars us as the best affordable quad core gaming CPU since then though for the most part I think it's safe to say we have moved on from quad cores at least at the sort of mid-range and beyond so this time we're upping the budget to $180 us to include these significantly more capable core i5 8400 now before AMD fans smash their keyboards across their free sync monitors take a deep breath it's going to be okay I recently named the horizon 526 hundred and twenty six hundred x as the best value all-round a desktop CPUs around $200 now if you're running core heavy applications as well as gaming then I feel personally that the horizon 5 Series is a better choice here you can even overclock the horizon processes to deliver superior performance in most games however in order to really beat the core i5 8400 expensive Samsung B die memory and you then need to manually tune that memory and you also need to invest at least $20 u.s. and a better cooler to support the overclock and this is particularly true for the non ex model the core i5 8400 on the other hand smashes it out of the ballpark with the absolute cheapest Intel 300 series motherboard you can find and the most bog-standard ddr4 2666 memory on the market so it's a seriously cost-effective hassle-free option and it's well suited to gaming okay so for those of you who find themselves primarily GPU bound to in gaming which I suspect is probably most of you then something like the core i5 8400 or Aizen 5 2600 will do nicely but if you're upping the GPU firepower or perhaps playing titles such as csgo overwatch or fortnight on super high refresh rate monitors with competitive settings then you will want every last frame possible and to do so without breaking the bank I feel like the core i5 8600 is the best CPU here priced at an MSRP of 257 dollars u.s. it's often found selling for around $40 US and at that price it really has no direct competition particularly for those looking at doing nothing other than gaming at high frame rates overclocked to 5 gigahertz 3600 K can easily extract every last frame from a GTX TTI for example or perhaps even two of them for those few titles that still support SLI if you've got a gtx 980ti maybe two of them something even better I don't know you got a lot of money you spend on graphics cards it's basically the point I'm trying to make here and you want the best gaming CPU the market has to offer then it really is the core i7 8700 K Intel's low latency ring bus architecture has proven to be the best solution for gaming and then when you couple that with a CPU that can comfortably around all cause a 4.7 gigahertz with something like MC enabled in the BIOS or can be manual overclocked I would save to at least 5 gigahertz then you've got yourself a real winner I think it's been proven now that there really is nothing that can touch the 8700 K right now the nearest competitor when it comes to pure gaming performance is probably Intel's own core i5 8600 ok so this pick then really should be no surprise we've had the same opinion since the 8700 K was released and the second general Rison series really didn't change anything extremely good value but if you want the best the best it still is the 8700 K perhaps aim'd II can take the gaming crowd away from until next year and many believe that they can but for now intel does still hold that crown last year I recommended second-hand shoppers be on the lookout for a cheap core i5 2500k processor and even today if you can get one of those really cheap with a motherboard memory than that is a great deal because they can still play a lot of games really well this time though I am recommending something far more recent in the risin 5 1600 I currently they do retail for $190 us for the most part brand-new but I've noticed quite a lot of good second-hand deals and you would assume it the CPUs are in good condition there would be relatively new they can't really be more than a year old but of course how much you would pay for these CPUs will differ from region to region slap that on an affordable be 350 motherboard I've seen a few decent boards on the second-hand market something as little as forty dollars us so that's a serious bargain but if you can't find one secondhand there are still some really good boards that you can buy brand-new for $70 us and doing so means you'll have a cracking good gaming system that you'll be able to upgrade in a few years time with a Zen plus of note as in - CPU we just had Zen + Zen to CPU if need be well there you have it if you're a gamer looking for the best gaming CPU for your next rig then this should have you covered the price range extended anywhere from $100 u.s. all the way up to 360 dollars and there were a few good options in between so if you liked this video feel free to 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