BEST INTEL GAMING CPU

BEST INTEL GAMING CPU 

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Building the best gaming pc, you do not have to select the best graphics card only but processor is more important than that. If you think I am wrong, then I have my logic. A good graphics card cannot unlock it’s full potential if not used on a decent cpu.

If you think you can use a gtx 980 on a Amd X4 860K which costs around $75 only, then you will see how your cpu is bottlenecking your graphics card. Instead of getting 60+fps, you will get 40 or 50. And that’s all because of the cpu you are using.

If you use a good cpu first then you can use any graphics card according to your budget and the capability your cpu has. So, I am going to mention the best processors for gaming for every budget both from Intel and Amd.

1. Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary edition

Price=Rs6,300($69.99)

This processor is the cheapest gaming processor from Intel. Best suited for a budget build of $300 to $400. With this processor you can expect a huge performance out of the box. Even if it is just pentium processor which only costs $70, it outperforms every Amd processor that comes under $100.

It is totally unlocked and you can overclock it massively. The core clock of this cpu is 3.2Ghz and with a custom Cooler Like Cooler Master hyper 212 EVO or better you can overclock it upto 4.7Ghz with stabillity. In many games it give a tough competition to higher end core i5’s and i7’s like Tomb Raider 2013 as it based on the same Haswell architecture as Core i5’s and core i7’s.

But it only gives that much performance when you overclock it. Without any overclocking you will be observing that it gets beaten my amd processors like X4 750K etc. But when overclocked more than 4.5Ghz, it gives almost equal performance to i7’s in games like Crysis 3.

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2. Intel Core i5 4690k

Price=Rs19,300($233.99)

Another badass processor which is based on the same Haswell architecture is the Core i5 4690K. Remember when a “K” is added to a processor name it means that it is unlocked and an unlocked processor is considered as the best processor for gaming as you can boost your performance more than 10%.

This processor is the 4th generation core i5 cpu which is unlocked to be overclocked upto 4.7Ghz and has actually much better specs. It has 4 cores and 4 threads which make intensive applications to be run on it easily. With 4 cores you can run any game on it as there is no game that requires more than 4 cores.

3. Intel Core i5 6600k

Price=Rs19,800($264.21)

This is the latest Skylake based sixth generation Intel core i5 processor which is considered as the best power efficient processor. It uses LGA socket 1151 motherboards and supports ddr4 memories too. When compared to the i5 4690k it beats it in overall performance. The per watt performance and the power efficiency is higher than the previous generation i5’s.

In applications like Cinebench and Compubench, it completely destroys the i5 4690K giving upto more than double performance in Compubench 1.5 (Bitcoin mining) and upto 40% more fps in CompuBench 1.5 (Video composition).

This processor is a very good choice for future proofing your system as not only it will support any high end graphics card but it also opens doors for ddr4 builds which are faster and more power efficient. The only thing is that it costs much more than the previous generations i5’s otherwise there are other processors of sixth generation which cost less than 200 dollars but are not considered as the best processors for gaming because they are not unlocked.