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[=sw=warlord]

I personally have an i5 3470 which runs perfectly fine for everything except rendering in C4D, but that's mostly down to core count rather than processing speed.
Got mine for £125 last year so it's not mega expensive.

[Cortexian]

+1 for Mid-High range Core i5 processor. They're still the best for general usuage / gaming. If you start adding stuff on top of gaming like live streaming or recording then that's when you move up to an i7, but a higher end i5 will still handle that stuff fairly well.

[Bodzilla]

is the 4570 a good choice?

[stunt_man]

If you have the cash, go for the Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz. AFAIK it's got the best bang for your buck.

[=sw=warlord]

"HD7560"



There's your problem!

[InnerGoat]

lol

e: get a new gpu right away. the cpu would be the next thing to replace down the road.
maybe trials fusion is buggy with his current gpu drivers or maybe the game is just a mess??

Anyways since you want a l33t gaymenz pc that means you want something similar to the following:

• haswell CPU like the 4670k or 4770k
• SSD like the samsung 840 evo (lots of options to pick from here)
• at least 8GB (2 x 4GB sticks) of DDR3 1600 or faster
• AMD r9 280x or nvidia gtx 770? The 280x will probably be usable longer as it has 3GB of vram compared to 2GB on the 770. There are 4GB 770s but they cost a bit more.
• a good psu

tl;dr - go to pc parts picker and look at what others built

is the 4570 a good choice?

It is if you're not planning on overclocking, since it can't be overclocked at all. If you think you will mess with overclocking some time down the road, get the 4670k.

[InnerGoat]

Put a 750ti in there and you'll be running much faster than that onboard amd gpu

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814487025

[Bodzilla]

nah i dont really fuck around with overclocking tbqh. as long as it's not being a bottle neck i leave the CPU alone.
i do have that massive noctura CPU fan, but it'd probably be years before the 4570 would be the bottle neck in a system ya?

with current generational stuff i'm finding i'm wearing them out before games catchup to them.
what do ya reckon?

[InnerGoat]

You'll love it. I just like to overclock things for the fun of it lol.

[Bodzilla]

Puters are for pray gaem.

OC is nerd stuff

(but seriously with current gen CPU's, i'd be looking at the least at a couple of years before the CPU bottle necks the system ya?)