nurturedhate
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Could also be a horrible person and get the wife the i5+480 and you buy an i7+1070.... no one has to know.
Thanks for all the replies. Everyone keeps suggesting I go big on the CPU now and upgrade the GPU later, but I think everyone is missing that I said I will absolutely not be changing out any hardware at all for the next 3 years. That was the agreement I made with my wife for her to be OK with spending around $2000 for both computers is that I will not spend any more money for the next several years on computer upgrades.
I've read and can see there is a big shortage of GTX1070's and RX480's but I think by the time October rolls around the shortage will be gone. Also, I assume that in 3 years if I want to upgrade again, I don't think the motherboard I'm buying in 2016 will be compatible with new CPU's coming out in 2019.
So with all that said, for the next 3 years is an i5+GTX1070 for $60 more going to continue to be noticeably better than an i7+RX480? The games we bought recently and want to buy soon don't run well with our current systems (Witcher 3, Doom, and Mirror's Edge Catalyst) but according to Anandtech the GTX1070 is way faster than RX480 with Witcher 3. Would an i5-6600k slow down the GTX1070 that much?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-reviewHowever, the average frame-rate results suggest that the advantages of the i7's hyper-threading are minimal, its stock performance often overcome with an i5 overclock - but it's a different situation on when we look at the lowest recorded frame-rates, where the i5 is disadvantaged in several titles, and there are occasions where even 4.5GHz performance can't match the i7's stock stability. We should remember that our tests here are designed to propel CPU limitations to the forefront, and our contention is that in most titles where GPU is the bottleneck, the difference will be harder to detect. But the bottom line is this - in many-core games that hit CPU hard, the i7 6700K offers a level of stability in excess of what the equivalent i5 is capable of.