I've read through countless articles and have watched dozens of youtube's of people's opinions on gaming performance on a 4 core or 6 core machine. I've seen the comparisons, I know that with a capable cpu, a 4 core would do just fine with games.
I'm trying to think ahead though. 6 core variants are beginning to pop now, and they are becoming more affordable. Shifting forward lets say, 4 or 5 years, will we see more and more games benefit from 6 cores?
The system I am currently gathering parts for is strictly for games. There is nothing else I will be doing or running on that computer except games and windows. It will sit in the living room and look pretty. I will bring it to my G's apartment and use it while she is at work and I have nothing else to do but slay monsters or act like a superhero. I have a larger rig that handles all my intensive work (vm's, network simulations, transcoding and such).
I want this thing future proofed to the point where I only really need to consider upgrading the gpu after a period of like, 3 or 4 years. I don't want to be in a situation where I will need to say 'oh shit, looks like I need a new cpu, motherboard and ram now too'. I'm leaning more towards 6 cores, because I can see the benefit in the long run, but I could be very, very wrong. If 6 cores is total overkill for the foreseeable future of games, I would rather save a few $ and go with the 8th gen i3's.
So what say y'all? Am I going to waste my money buying a 6 core or do you think it would eventually pay off to have it sitting in my rig?
I'm trying to think ahead though. 6 core variants are beginning to pop now, and they are becoming more affordable. Shifting forward lets say, 4 or 5 years, will we see more and more games benefit from 6 cores?
The system I am currently gathering parts for is strictly for games. There is nothing else I will be doing or running on that computer except games and windows. It will sit in the living room and look pretty. I will bring it to my G's apartment and use it while she is at work and I have nothing else to do but slay monsters or act like a superhero. I have a larger rig that handles all my intensive work (vm's, network simulations, transcoding and such).
I want this thing future proofed to the point where I only really need to consider upgrading the gpu after a period of like, 3 or 4 years. I don't want to be in a situation where I will need to say 'oh shit, looks like I need a new cpu, motherboard and ram now too'. I'm leaning more towards 6 cores, because I can see the benefit in the long run, but I could be very, very wrong. If 6 cores is total overkill for the foreseeable future of games, I would rather save a few $ and go with the 8th gen i3's.
So what say y'all? Am I going to waste my money buying a 6 core or do you think it would eventually pay off to have it sitting in my rig?
