Hi everyone haven’t posted in awhile and I wasn’t sure where to put this thread.
Anyways, I’m building a new rig mainly for blender but some Unity, Sculptris, Photoshop and similar programs. I’m working with a budget of $600 so pretty modest. I’m having trouble deciding between the I3 4160 - dual core 4 threads (1150 Soket), or the FX 6300 6 cores. I’m leaning towards the Intel even though it only has 2 cores it has an upgrade path to an i7. Plus since Skylake (1151 soket) just came out I suspect the previous gens will decrease in price. Plus, since we render cycles on the GPU I figured having a dual core wouldn’t hold me back that much. Thought I’d ask the experts here first tho. Also, I know the FX 6300 has an upgrade path but Id say the I7 would probably beat AMD’s top FX chip any day.
The build I’m planning is:
i3 4160
GTX 750ti (plenty of upgrade from here)
ASRock B85 Mini ITX
16 GBS of ram
SSD
WIN 10