What CPU to get for 1080p/60+ fps?

[SirMaoh]

Hey there :)

I'm planning to get a new PC in the next weeks, something like a current i7 4c/8t CPU and a geforce 1060 and 16GB RAM. Would this be enough to play the game 1080p with constant 60fps with A LOT of units?

If not, what would I have to improve? I'm planning to get a machine that will last me a while for new total annihilation-like games and the hopefully upcomming new sins of a solar empire :)

[Ticktoc]

I would wait until Ryzen comes out, which is expected to be around 1st or 2nd of March. It should give you more options. If you can get an 8c/8t CPU for a similar price and on cheaper motherboards then it should allow you to spend a little more on the GPU. Or if Intel is the best choice then their prices may come down.

60FPS, well, if you are willing to turn graphics down a bit then you can probably hit 60FPS whatever is going on on the screen. If you had settings on Extreme then you probably won't without some tweaks, perhaps down to High (not much difference between the two), you can have some really big maps with tons of AI etc. which will stress most peoples systems (edit: Referring to Ashes Escalation here, where you get bigger maps and a lot more AI).

Either way I would wait until Ryzen hits so you have all the options you can, whatever you go for in the end. Who knows, if they are good and cheaper then it might let you go up to a 1070.

[ASAD]

I am with Ticktoc too, wait a few month and see, you may sabe some good $$$

[SirMaoh]

Thanks for all the replies :)

It's probably the best to wait for a while then. At some point I've thought about getting an AMD CPU too (never had one before), but I'm very sceptical with that because I've made some bad experiences with ATI/AMD graphic cards before.

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Originally posted by SirMaoh:

Thanks for all the replies :)

It's probably the best to wait for a while then. At some point I've thought about getting an AMD CPU too (never had one before), but I'm very sceptical with that because I've made some bad experiences with ATI/AMD graphic cards before.

Even though the Ryzen is out it does seems lackluster in some game benchmarks. Still better to hold back from buying anything for now and see if they can patch it. Plus the overclocking between the 1700 and 1800x seems to cap out about the same which seems very odd as it makes buying the 1800x seem like a bad idea.
Let's see if they can iron out the bugs and more importantly let's see what Intel do to address their high cost to performance, they might drop prices fairly quickly.
Right now we are on the verge of a price war I think.
Also, forget about DX12/vulcan for now, in the vast majority of games DX12 performance is much worse than DX11.
All the promises AMD made about how amzing their R9 280/R9 290 cards would be with DX12 turned out to be pretty much sales hype. I bought the R9 290 (tri x) and was disapointed. Ended up selling it for 1/5th of the price and saved the extra to get a 980Ti (Zotac, overclocked to 1445Mhz!!!) and it's been awesome.
I'm currently running a stock i7 4790k and there is not much worth upgrading to at the moment for gaming. But all this new Ryzen stuff should kick off a speed/price war.

[Moza]

Yes, wait for ryzen. Fast processor for a fraction of the intels. it's now available so that would be one of the first bits of hardware (cpu ryzen motherboard and ram) and then starting building from there and using old hardware from your other system (ssds etc to cut costs)

[Amos Burton]

ryzen benchmarks for gaming is only lacking because games have been optimized for intel cpus for like the last 6yrs, even wardell has said theyre optimizing for ryzen now..stardock along with hundreds of other game studios, so it should be fine..gaming for the moment is the only thing thats lacking for ryzen but for a good reason and wont stay that way for long..every other cpu task..ryzen excells...not to mention 8cores would be more future proof since games are allready using 6 cores..ashes does..not sure if it utilizes 8 cores..but by design it should.

[RvB Churchaboose]

Stay tuned for Skylake X and Kabylake X, see what the Ryzen performance is at that time, and then make your decision. That's what I would suggest.

[Gottachamp]

I'm running a mean 486 dx4100 chip with 16mb of ram. It's working fine for me. I even upgraded to soundblaster 16!!!

[Trentscousin]

I have a "PC Emulator" on my Amiga 500, yes it takes 1800 Floppy Disks to load, but when it does....ohh baby....