imanmatar wroteHey guys,
I need your tech advice. I'm building a budget gaming rig around the zotac's gtx 1060 amp.
It seems that this card is the best choice in Lebanon, if you're short on money and need to max out settings in all games on 1080p while still getting 60fps+ (Correct me if I'm wrong).
Do you think an i3 6100 CPU will bottleneck such a card? If yes which CPU would you recommend bearing in mind that I want the cheapest available CPU in Lebanon which won't bottleneck this card.
Best
I did the mistake of getting an i3 for my previous pc build because it was going to be a "budget build" it was 2014 and I bought a 3220 i3 cpu with a 3.3 ghz thinking "most games only use dual core anyway(3.3 ghz was a good clock back then). But then, not 6 month later, I had to upgrade to an i5, and mainly because of the following:
1- I3 don't have turbo boost, and they still don't have turbo boost
2- while games only use one or 2 threads for their main game loops, they still need some threads for music, sounds and other things that can be offloaded to other cores, and you still have your operating system running and perhaps you want to listen to some music in the background? Having 4 cores will allow you to offload those tasks to other cores, and while they may just be a 10% difference, that 10% can make a big difference in fps, especially in poorly optimized games where the performance is bad anyway.
An i5 is only like 100$ more expensive, and cpus are not things you can just sell and buy an upgrade for, you only buy once, if you hope to keep the computer for 2 years or more, go with at least an i5.