HiHo

[Lepasconnu]

Hiho there,

I have been brought here by all the good things I have heard about PCS (housemates and colleagues).
I have finally decided to buy a real custom made PC, after years on laptops.

I am not (not anymore) a big gamer, I focus mostly on GuildWars2 these times, and any Telltales games (I highly recommend the Wolf Among Us btw), from time to time a game or two of BF4. Another thing, I play on my TV (laptop plugged via HDMI), this might be important I guess...
So yeah that's it, below is the link provided by a fellow forum user for the machine I am going to buy (within the next 3 months hopefully).
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-skylake-sff-gaming/ttVpjbmnrz/

If you have any advice about what to buy, how to take care of a PC, I am all ears!

About who I am, I'm French, live in London and work for a (hopefully soon) famous kid TV show.

Thanks!
Lepasconnu

 

[Oussebon]

Salut

Looks like a decent little build. The main thing I would say is that for MMOs and things like Battlefield 4, CPU performance can be (even) more important than in other games. Games with lots of players tend to have more situations where you get CPU bound rather than being GPU bound.

So depending on your financial position, you might want to find a few extra £ in order to up the CPU to an i5 6500 (+£16) or even i5 6600 (£+30).

Intel: http://ark.intel.com/compare/88188,88184,88185

You can see BF4 being more influenced by CPU increases than many other games in various hardware reviews/showcases:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-skylake-core-i5-6600k-review

 

[Lepasconnu]

That's actually something I just saw a minute ago, and I was about to ask about the CPU! Awesome!
I guess if I add some money, I might as well go for the 6600 then.

What do the GHz mean in the CPU description? is it something I should have a look at?

 

[Oussebon]

GHz in this case is how many clock cycles a CPU does per second.

Note that a bigger number doesn't always mean better performance. If it's within the same family of CPUs (i.e. if they're all Intel Skylake Desktop i5 CPUs, as these all are) then it probably does, but you can't compare an intel CPU to an AMD one, or a Desktop CPU to a Laptop CPU, or an Intel Sandy Bridge CPU to a Skylake CPU, and just look at the GHz There are plenty of other factors. There are different CPUs that are good for different things.

But for gaming with a budget of around £800, an Intel i5 CPU is generally the way to go.

If you're curious/bored this is a bit of light reading about CPUs and GHz.
http://www.howtogeek.com/177790/why-you-cant-use-cpu-clock-speed-to-compare-computer-performance/
And a Linus video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLSPub4ydiM

 

[Lepasconnu]

Thank you Oussebon for your advice, I've decided to go for the i5 6600, £30 more is not much if it can truly help performance I guess.