Looking for budget/cheap system to outperform 9 year old i5

[Incredibale]

Long story short, I am looking for a "budget" or otherwise cheap MB/CPU setup that will beat the pants out of my 9 year old i5.

My understanding is that AMD's pricing is more budget conscious but performance is bested by Intel. Price is a higher priority right now. My old i5 can't be OC'd well and better CPUs for that socket are long gone. Below are my current specs and why I want to upgrade. I'm planning on keeping the GPU for awhile.





I also have a Sapphire R9-380 4GB.

1680x1050 monitor.

I had a Radeon HD 5770 1GB until December. I saw scarcely any difference in performance in WoW after the GPU upgrade, and TF2 actually performs worse in many cases. Latest drivers, too. Really, the only old game I had that saw a huge increase was Crysis.

Overwatch is my big concern, it performed well when I bought it, but after the McCree/Widowmaker nerf patch it started performing terribly. Running at low settings with 50-75% render scale, which means I'm actually running close to 480p, and still not getting 60 FPS during action. I doubt Blizzard will fix this, so the only way out is to get more power.

Starcraft 2 also runs like trash.

My CPU is not throttling itself, been keeping an eye on frequencies and temps while playing.

[Sorshen]

What's your budget? A skylake i3 plus cheap H110 mb beats your setup, but maybe you can go higher.
Alternatively you could grab a used 2500K/1155 mainboard or something for extremely good value.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/GHtcJx
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/GHtcJx/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($53.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($30.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $195.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-17 13:06 EDT-0400

[Thunderball]

What's your budget and in which country are you buying the parts?

WoW FPS is largely influenced by the processor, Overwatch FPS on the other hand is mostly on the videocard, but I guess R9-380 is reasonable for both, you just have to disable all the postprocessing.

[Incredibale]

USA. No more than $300 US for mobo/CPU total.

And holy crap at that RAM you listed. Memory is cheap these days.


BTW, how much shit will MS give me if I upgrade to Windows 10 then change the mobo? That's essentially a different system.

[Thunderball]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6300 3.8GHz Dual-Core Processor ($141.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($67.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $269.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-17 15:16 EDT-0400

If you want an ATX mobo I suggest this.

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BTW, how much shit will MS give me if I upgrade to Windows 10 then change the mobo? That's essentially a different system.

You can buy Windows from Kinguin for $20 until free upgrade offer expires on 29th this month.

[truulte]

Copying this from another thread because this build is what I believe will give you the best bang for your buck by far.

If you know/are willing to learn how to overclock(easy), this great low budget build will save you a lot of money. The build is fantastic $/performance for WoW.
The CPU in this build easily OC to around 4.4GHz on stock fan and performs on par with i5 6600 with that clock speed. And because WoW is only using 1-1.5 cores it doesn't matter that it's only a dual core CPU.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/8XgWBm
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/8XgWBm/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($42.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($33.49 @ NCIX US)
Total: $141.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-17 19:17 EDT-0400

[Deleted]

I am not quite sure if going to an i3 would be the best option...
Yes, the i3 runs about twice as fast and it will probably still be faster than the old i5 750... But going from a quad core to a dual core (even if it has HT), feels a bit weird to me.

Maybe there is room for a 6400 or 6500.

[Thunderball]

I am not quite sure if going to an i3 would be the best option...
Yes, the i3 runs about twice as fast and it will probably still be faster than the old i5 750... But going from a quad core to a dual core (even if it has HT), feels a bit weird to me.

Maybe there is room for a 6400 or 6500.

There is no point in getting 6400 due to lower freqs. He can try to fit a 6500 but it's around $200.

[Deleted]

You can get an i5:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($215.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($57.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston FURY 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($35.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $309.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-19 06:40 EDT-0400