Update 2017: PC build

The old PC-build threads are in ancient time so pardon me starting a new one.

WHATSUPP I'm now settle down and I need a new set for my corner. I dig games like Farcry, call of duty, Battle field 1, crysis, battle ground ... and all can tell I like GTX 1060

https://thegreatsetup.com/builds/ Two sets $600 and $700 here are built with GTX1060, but the difference in chipset that raised my question.

What we got from extra $100 is corei3 to corei5. Would that worth the bucks? One way I'm assuming I don't need that much, other tells me I should go for the long run ... help me to decide this :'(

 

I'd recommend building your own PC. Cheaper and better. But if you play .drive and need a prebuilt, go with the i5.

 

-> https://www.beamng.com/forums/computer-hardware.40/

 

You will need the i5. Extra 2 processing cores is necessary for a simulator like BeamNG since it does so many calculations.

 

Not necessarily, my I3 is pushing through up to 7 pigeons (in-game) before becoming CPU limited.

 

Hi, yes this is the thing I'm wondering.

But anyway I purchased the $700 set, I mean, I don't wanna look for another part in 4-5 years coming.
Thanks guys.

 

It's folly to buy an i5, grab the Ryzen 1600 processor or a 1600X for a little bit extra clock speed, it's the best bang for the buck, gets similar FPS with a 1060 video card, and the motherboard is significantly cheaper. Just make sure to get the right type of RAM for it (look up on sites like Guru3d for what RAM works best with it). Best to get 16gb of RAM, as 8gb is on it's way to being 'too little' in the next year or so, unless the budget is very tight. A Ryzen CPU will perform on par as an identical clock-speed processor with default 2133mhz RAM, and it will best a 6900k (Clock for clock,meaning, same ghz speed) by 10% in Beamng.drive performance, with 2933mhz Cas-16 memory.

Anyone buying an i5 now is getting taken for a ride. This comes from someone with an i7 4xxx series cpu several years old. You will get 6 cores and 12 threads instead of 4 cores and only 4 threads (that may be a few % faster fps-wise, the difference is negated with correct RAM!)

www.guru3d.com 's articles on the Ryzen retest (go back a few pages on hardware reviews, it's there), with faster ram, show it runs neck and neck with a 6900k, occasionally getting bested by it, and sometimes clearly beating it, depending on what kind of gaming your doing with it.

For Beamng.drive NO ONE should choose an i5 over a Ryzen 6 core.

EDIT: well now I see you already got one, hey, if it works out, great, just know in the future, especially for those others seeing this, give the Ryzen the first go here. Don't reward intel's withholding of progress and milking with another sale. This comes from someone who's previous-to-Ryzen preference was intel chips.