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the central processing unit it's probably the first thing you decide on a building your own computer and for good reason in most cases the CPU is the deciding factor for how much money you should spend on other components the graphics card system Ram and even the power supply so this video will revolve around my personal experiences with each of these I have tested and benchmarked every single one so much of what I say will be fact I have several videos in this description to support what I say but without a doubt my conclusions overall will be more of a matter of opinion how much bang for the buck I think you're getting for each of these processors and why you'd want to buy one over the other we've got a pyramid here so let's start from the bottom the least expensive and work our way up first up on the pyramid the Pentium G 4400 if you're willing to consider base clock overclocking this makes the G 4400 a skylake version of the G 32:58 and overclockable dual-core processor it isn't boasting hyper-threading nor a large amount of l3 cache but it packs a heck of a punch with its two cores and for half the price of its hyper threaded counterpart if you ask me it's worth considering four builds ranging anywhere from three hundred to five hundred US dollars for more on the G 4400 specifically check out the corresponding video I have linked in this description next up is the FX 6300 another budget-friendly option no doubt it's more powerful than the G 4400 by all respects but unless you can find one for around the price of a G 4400 I recommend staying away for now and here's why it utilizes the outdated am3+ socket ddr3 and PCI Express 2.0 don't get me wrong it handles games no problem my brother and I'm sure many of you still use the 6300 but at this point in time with Zen just around the corner mind you and competitive options from the blue team just just straight flooding the market I can't recommend any CP from AMD at this time the same goes for the FX 8300 6100 I prove that right here it still compromises the upgrade factor that the skylight platform practically owns at this point if you're on a very tight budget however finding these on sites like eBay for well under 100 US dollars could be viable in my opinion you shouldn't pay any more than about 60 US dollars for the FX 6300 and maybe 70 to 80 bucks for an FX 8300 to the odd child the i3 I've owned both the i3 4150 from has well and the i3 6100 from sky lake the 4150 was in the first PC I ever built by the way but upon comparing them to their i5 counterparts again videos linked in this description I found that the i3 s felt vastly short of the quad cores and it's because of that I 5s have 4 physical cores allowing for four lanes of simultaneous prepping and processing but hyper-threading doesn't make up for what is lost in the i3 s I explain why in a video right here all in all I will save this if you can afford in any way shape or form to shell out the extra 60 to 80 bucks for an i-5 over and i3 do it even if really under clocked I five like the 6,400 sitting around here somewhere will perform much better than even a base clock overclocked I 360 104 physical cores really do make all the difference I know that money's tight and the prices can vary from country to country but I'd be willing to compromise on other aspects of my build the case and power supply for starters to make room for an i-5 for gaming in my opinion either goji 4400 on an ultra budget option or i-5 you'll get more bang for your buck the i3 is the awkward middleman it's strategically priced buy until they do that for a reason so about twice as expensive as the G 4400 but nowhere near twice as powerful as the two core to thread counterpart and now on to the i-5 I've only 4690k the sixty four hundred and sixty five hundred and sixty six hundred K skews all of them offer unique competitive advantages the 4690k utilizes older architecture and an older platform i know i harped on the FX series for that but hear me out here if you can find it for a good deal less than that skylight counterpart I say go for it here's why you won't notice any substantial difference between the two I have a video verifying that in this description the same can be said of the 4460 here although you'll have no possibility of base clock overclocking even a locked i5 will perform better than an overclocked I three and I threes aren't naturally overclockable I said the base clock method is really the only way to get around that and that's only on a skylight platform but if you're choosing between 4464 somewhere around 150 hundred sixty US dollars and $120 I 340 150 go for the 4460 eat that $40 cost you'll definitely read the extra benefits for the sake of utilizing ddr4 skylake chipsets and newer more efficient architecture however opting for either the sixty four hundred sixty five hundred sixty six hundred or sixty six hundred K may be in your best interest I've owned every Scylla Kai five except for the non K sixty six hundred for the simple reason that from my point of view the added cost doesn't really justify the marginal frequency increase that and base clock overclocking is viable for all three if you're willing to throw down a bit more for a z170 chipset or any of as rocks sky overclocking motherboards more on that here in my personal opinion the best bang for the buck CPU you can buy for gaming des is the i-5 6500 coming in at around 180 to 190 US dollars currently although you can find it on sale for much less if you're looking pretty much every day it'll bring a high enough frequency with turbo boost in a sufficient amount of cores and cash to the table even better you aren't necessarily obligated to pair it with an expensive z170 motherboard or a premium Ram kit now the 6600 K is intended for an entirely different user it has an unlock multiplier meaning that you really don't have to do much in terms of tweaking things in your BIOS to get this thing up to around four point four to four point six gigahertz with a decent cooler but as i've proven in a video i have linked in this description i have tons of videos linked there just bear with me cpu overclocking really doesn't change much when it comes to just gaming so why would a gamer purchase this well for one they're actually great multitaskers while not as efficient as its 6700 K counterpart it can be easily overclocked to upwards of 4.6 gigahertz with a solid air or water cooler this will aid in content creation tasks all time reductions and even multitasking operations in principle you'll also be somewhat forced to purchase a z170 motherboard more expensive yes but offering many more features as well as a line crossfire 5.1 surround sound adequate cooling solutions not to mention they look better as well I don't recommend at 6600 K for 95% of gamers you simply won't see a great enough increase in performance to justify the price hike but if you're consistently switching between both video games and content creation software the 6600 K can be that viable compromise you've been looking for in your case $100 will go a much further way for a better GPU than it will for a better CPU that is to say choosing this over this makes much more sense for the avid gamer and even occasional content creator take it from someone like myself I pretty much edited rendered on all of these processors in the studio and I can tell you without a doubt that these two are fairly close when it comes to cost or performance that ratio there for editing and rendering the framerate differences are minimal and the Edit render time differences aren't great enough in my opinion for the $100 Delta to make sense for anyone who just occasionally edits and renders videos now in the midst of the whole I 5 verse i7 discussion again I have several videos already covering those head-to-head mashups in comes the sneaky old Seon I'll be completely honest with you here I've only owned one and I'll tell you why motherboard options I had to hunt for one I liked and ended up switching halfway through the process see 232 and see 236 motherboards are the only ones currently supporting skylake Zeon's not to be confused with Broadwalk ez ons which is disappointing seeing as though haswell's Aeons were 100% compatible with consumer grade motherboards not the case here to limit this selection even further if you intend to base clock overclocked a Xeon like this one you'll need to purchase one of asrock special sky overclocking motherboards for the c 232 chipset these Zeon's also don't offer integrated graphics meaning that you'll get no picture on your monitor unless you're sporting a dedicated graphics card in most cases it won't really apply to you but if you plan on waiting 2 or 3 weeks for your graphics card to arrive after the fact keep in mind that you won't be able to use your computer until that car it arrives so then Greg with all these drawbacks why the heck would I want to purchase one of these the answer is price let's consider this one the Xeon e3 1230 v5 it features 14 nanometers Gothic architecture 4 cores 8 threads 8 megabytes of l3 cache turbo boost technology and low thermal design power all identical to the i7 6700 stock frequencies vary slightly but these can be negated with simple base clock / clocks and that brings us to the i7 6700 K perhaps my favorite processor not because of the price necessarily but because of how versatile this thing actually is it's only a little over 300 US dollars but it can pretty much do anything you wanted to do apart from you no serious serious workloads if you aren't willing to compromise on an unlocked multiplier I understand base clock overclocking isn't for everyone then look no further than the 6700 K I mean that firmly look no higher up the chain than the 6700 K I know I know CPUs like the 6800 K look tempting right Oh 6 cores well it's a 6 core consumer grade processor granted on an enthusiast grade platform it is a bit more expensive but seems worth it right I'm getting 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads yeah I could definitely reap those benefits right look here's my point the 6700 K will crunch even 4k footage with relative ease take my word for it I do it on a daily basis it handles any game you throw at it and over clocks like a beast I've gotten mine up to 4.8 gigahertz with albeit slightly sketchy temperatures I've only gone up to the 6700 K for the simple reason that it offers the best of both worlds like it's been proven time and time again that the 6700 K thanks to its very strong single core performance outperform is even the 6800 K 59 30 K and even 69 50 X and nearly $2,000 processor in many cases and until games begin heavily relying on more than four physical cores don't worry forget a ways to go the 67 higher case price roughly 330 US dollars will be the most I ever spend on a CPU with which I intend to play video games when it comes to rendering sure the more cores with a decent frequency you throw at it the better off you'll be in long-run the experience will just be more enjoyable but I only recommend these processors in very very extreme cases hence x99 the X standing for extreme you get my point if you want the best computing experience possible to be completely honest even the 69 50 X will fall short of multi-core multi CPU Z on platforms worth tens of thousands of dollars you'll never get the best folks it's that's how technology works now if you don't play video games that are only interested in content creation you could make a case for the 6800 K and maybe something like the 69 hundred K but that's as far as I'd ever be willing to go and I've stayed away from X 99 for that very reason the costs in my experience outweigh the benefits of reduced render times and smoother editing among other things and that's that I know we've gone above my personal CPU pyramid at this point but I wanted to make sure that I touched on enthusiast grade chips and explain why I've shied away from them up to this point for what I do and what I imagine close to 99% of you do as well any CPU up to the 6700 K will suffice and certainly yield a greater performance per dollar ratio so that's my take you don't have to agree with everything I've just said I understand that there are some power users very specific power users I didn't mention in this video but I've owned every single one of these processors every single one you're looking at right now in this pyramid I have owned that I've tested extensively so I have a pretty good idea of what processor works well for what user if you have any questions concerns or issues leave them in the comments section below and myself or someone else can address them if you liked or at least appreciate the video be sure to give it a thumbs up let me you think it a good job they did a bad job or for some reason hit everything my life I understand some people like that give two thumbs down if you feel the first way they'll be sure to subscribe you 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