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Hello! So I was having second thoughts about the CPU I am getting
I will be playing these games
DayZ Standalone on Average to Mild Settings
GTA5 On Average Settings
WaW/Black Ops 3 (Custom Zombie Maps)
Almost any game with Half Life Textures
MC
Indie Games

Here is the problem.

Although I don't need 2 minute renders I don't want to have a 17 hour upload for a 10 minute or less video. The reason is I want daily uploads

Here is CPU #1
Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor


Here is CPU #2
Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor


Also these are Skylakes so I think they can (With the New BIOS)


Anything helps and keep in mind I don't want 2.54 millisecond renders, but something that I can work with to have daily uploads or every other day uploads.
1080p30
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[DOUBLEPOST=1467335882,1467335706][/DOUBLEPOST]EDIT: I will not be overclocking. Maybe in the future but I have no intent on overclocking my first gaming PC.

I want to give it away for a milestone as my first PC and I understand that Overclocking isn't death to PC's I would rather not even risk the .00000000001 chance of hurting my device so my subs can enjoy it. Although by the time I hit that milestone it will probably be outdated[DOUBLEPOST=1467376875][/DOUBLEPOST]bump
 
Right, speaking from experience of building my own gaming PC on a budget and becoming an IT technician, you do not need an expensive CPU for gaming. A cheap AMD 8 core processor will be adequate for gaming if you have a decent graphics card. That being said you're rendering times will be ridiculous. I had a AMD A6-5600K (2011 spec AMD APU) in my first rig, a 10-15 minute video on good rendering quality would take on average around 1hr 30 minutes. A few months ago i upgraded to the Intel I5-6600 and the rendering time is down to 3-15 minutes depending on my settings. It did help with gaming performance aswell but it was a terrible AMD chip it had 2 threads acting as 4 cores, the 6-8 core versions would probably would be better with gaming but still lacking with rendering speeds.

I noticed you talk about upload speeds, a new CPU isn't going to help that, if you struggle with internet speed, dropping the bitrate would drop the file size down but you do lose quality.
GTA V is the only game there that is CPU hungry most new releases usually mostly rely on your GPU, you don't have to have a killer one, i'm rocking a Radeon HD 7870 (2011 Mid-Rage GPU) and i still get 30-60 frames on High - Ultra settings on most games.

I'd highly recommend the I5 if you were buying one of these chips, it's 85% as good as the I7 (Hyperthreading isn't needed when gaming) and it's a lot cheaper, just make sure you're not planning on running onboard graphics and buy a dedicated GPU.

If you have any problems or questions feel free to ask.
 
ElliottSplash has sound advice.

The thing I would add is that if you want to daily upload it's more a routine than computer power thing. Different codecs take vastly different times to encode - it's a trade-off between file size and processing power. Google servers re-encode so as long as you provide a decent quality master file doesn't matter too much. It therefore becomes a balancing act between your cpu power and internet upload speed. Point is you will figure a set of settings that best suit your computer and internet upload speed. If it's slow, just rearrange your routine to make sure stuff encodes at night and uploads in the background.


With all that said I have the utmost respect for people who manage to upload weekly let alone daily, so take my advice with a pinch of salt!!
 
Also, to put things into context, I use my 2 year old laptop (based on 3 year old design) to encode 1080p H.264 videos with a 2 pass setting - takes twice as long and it will take 1-2 hours for 5-6 mins of footage with a fair few effects and videos layered on top. These are fairly CPU heavy settings as I'm not pressed for time. I would not recommend such a setup but point is whatever desktop you build you should be OK (unless if you start editing 4k uncompressed footage of course! :-D )
 
ElliottSplash said:
Right, speaking from experience of building my own gaming PC on a budget and becoming an IT technician, you do not need an expensive CPU for gaming. A cheap AMD 8 core processor will be adequate for gaming if you have a decent graphics card. That being said you're rendering times will be ridiculous. I had a AMD A6-5600K (2011 spec AMD APU) in my first rig, a 10-15 minute video on good rendering quality would take on average around 1hr 30 minutes. A few months ago i upgraded to the Intel I5-6600 and the rendering time is down to 3-15 minutes depending on my settings. It did help with gaming performance aswell but it was a terrible AMD chip it had 2 threads acting as 4 cores, the 6-8 core versions would probably would be better with gaming but still lacking with rendering speeds.

I noticed you talk about upload speeds, a new CPU isn't going to help that, if you struggle with internet speed, dropping the bitrate would drop the file size down but you do lose quality.
GTA V is the only game there that is CPU hungry most new releases usually mostly rely on your GPU, you don't have to have a killer one, i'm rocking a Radeon HD 7870 (2011 Mid-Rage GPU) and i still get 30-60 frames on High - Ultra settings on most games.

I'd highly recommend the I5 if you were buying one of these chips, it's 85% as good as the I7 (Hyperthreading isn't needed when gaming) and it's a lot cheaper, just make sure you're not planning on running onboard graphics and buy a dedicated GPU.

If you have any problems or questions feel free to ask.
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I will be rocking the GTX 970. Although there is a VRAM issue I doubt that will be so major as I don't plan on doing illuminati s**t with my PC XD
 
The Vram issue on the 970 shouldn't effect any game that you are playing, unless you start doing 2K/4K gaming. I use 2gb Vram and that doesn't seem to struggle with it.
 
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