So, I'm doing my first build... literally 8 years in the making. I'm finally getting this done and I'm hype. But I need help on choosing my CPU, and the rest I believe I can do on my own.
USA
600-700tops
Emulation/Gaming
So I'm not a newbie or noob to this field, clearly I'm on the TekSydicate forums so you guys don't have to hold my hand on anything, just thought I'd state that first. I know about overclocking, what you'd need, and stuff like that.
But I just need help on picking my CPU.
So basically, I want a PC for gaming, but MAINLY emulation. I did my research countless times over the years, and now the technology for CPU is so advanced now, just about any Haswell or Skylake would do. However, emulation on PCSX2/Dolphin, relies heavily upon single threaded speeds, and doesn't usually use more than 2 cores. So I need something with a fast core speed. But, this is also for gaming, so I want atleast a quad/hyper-threading with very similar performance.
Basically I need about 3.5Ghz to be sure I emulate all my old games I cant wait to play again smoothly no problem. But I'd like to reach 3.7-3.9ish, preferably 4.0 for gaming.
So I cant spend over 700. And I want a Skylake.. why? Well Ill be on LGA 1151, which is much more appealing for future upgrades and stuff, and its the newest tech and on my budget why not? That and Skylake is like a guarantee itll emulate anything, Haswell too... but Skylake is newer and I feel more safe.
So if I get a non-K Skylake I need this motherboard to still overclock it.
And I need to overclock it cause the only quad core Skylake processors(which I am targeting) that are around what I think I should spend, are under 3.5, just the minimum of what I need for emulation speed requirements, and to get to 4.0 which I ultimately want, will inevitably require overclocking.
My main question is, is it worth getting that mobo just for a non-K skylake CPU, or are their other CPU options I should consider with a different motherboard? And I guess your guys out look on CPUs I have to choose between in general.
I can't even start looking at other things for the build until I know how much I need for my mobo/CPU. And hey if anyone has any complete builds you wanna run by me sure. Guess its just mainly a CPU question right now.
Thanks