2015: Which hardware is good enough?

[Nobbs66]

GPUs advance so fast it's typically best to just buy a midrange card and upgrade in like 2 years when they are twice as powerful.

The 980 Ti beats out both a Fury X and Titan X

[h412v3y]

Hey everyone! I am new to the forums, but not to the emulator.

My request here is I plan on making a new desktop computer with the parts that I planned, what I don't know is what CPU to choose. Here are the specs of my current system as of today:

CPU: AMD Athlon 5350
GPU: ZOTAC Getforce 610 Series
RAM 4 GBs
OS: Windows 10 Pro N
Motherboard: MSI AM1i

Here's the hardware I want to get:

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K
GPU: MSI NVidia GTX TITAN X
RAM: 8 GBs
OS Same as above
Motherboard: MSI Z170A TITANIUM Edition

Here's the CPUs I don't know what to get:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...k=i5-4670k
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6819117369

So, the question is,

All the hardware I want to get, is it more than enough for what I need, or do I need to choose a different CPU and start over? The planned CPU and motherboard sockets are LGA 1151, the two links above are LGA 1150, and I don't think I would be able to put a LGA 1150 CPU into a LGA 1151 motherboard. I also want to know that when I'm recording Open Broadcaster Software videos, is the hardware best to use so when I'm recording my computer or not, can I play the games like Bully, Spider-man 2 and other games without any lag or slowdowns, or do I need another CPU to choose from?

Im using an AMD RADEON R9 FURY X

i was using a intergrated amd hd 3000

loll

so yea going to a fury x  i can run virtualy everygame maxxed,, although i cant run fatal frame 3 with 6x resolution and 16x anti ailising

i get around 40-60fps

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Im using an AMD RADEON R9 FURY X

i was using a intergrated amd hd 3000

loll

so yea going to a fury x  i can run virtualy everygame maxxed,, although i cant run fatal frame 3 with 6x resolution and 16x anti ailising

i get around 40-60fps

IM HOPING THEY WILL FIX THAT AS MY GPU OR CPU ARE HOVERING AROUND 50% LOAD

[h412v3y]

With the amount you're looking on spending for peripherals you could get a GTX 980ti and play everything at max settings for a few years instead. I would recommend asking for/looking at other parts lists on the pcpartpicker forums and really maximize what you're getting for your money. And your first 2 builds you listed both have mismatching RAM modules and most likely wont even boot.

gtx 980 titanium wont max it

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The hardware MUST match with the CPU, power supply and CPU fan!!!!

hardware mode on pcsx2 uses virtualy no cpu..

its all gpu

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For pcsx2 we recommend Nvidia graphics cards because they have better OpenGL performance in the emulator than similar priced AMD cards. A GTX 980ti would probably be the best GPU for pcsx2, but is way overkill and and a GTX 960 would perform very similarly. The 980ti is meant to max out PC games at like 1440p whereas the 960 will play most games at high settings in 1080p.

Any GPU made within like the last 5 years will work in any recent motherboard.

The best GPUs out right now would be the nvidia gtx titan x or the AMD fury x.

no amd are better for open gl and open cl

i was reeding up somewherre about open gl being an amd thing

[h412v3y]

The 980 Ti beats out both a Fury X and Titan X

fury x crushes the titan x and 980ti in dx12,, fp8 and fp32 32bit texture benchmarks and 8bit texxture benches

it also has asyncHRONOUS compute so dx12 games will hevily rely on that,, also with dx12 the more cores u have,,the more fps u will get 

also u can crossfire an amd card with nvidia

the fastest now is the fury x+ 980 titanium with the fury x in the first slot and plugging in the screens into it

fury x2 is out this month...   1TB/S memory bandwidth

8196BIT

[Ryudo]

hardware mode on pcsx2 uses virtualy no cpu..

its all gpu

You lost all credibility to your posts when you said this.

PCSX2 relies 100x more on your CPU than on your GPU.
There's only a few games that are actually heavy on the GPU.

[Blyss Sarania]

i was reeding up somewherre about open gl being an amd thing

And this.

You lost all credibility to your posts when you said this.

[Ryudo]

Lol I actually missed that part about the OpenGL being an AMD thing...

[Nobbs66]

LOL!!

[h412v3y]

You lost all credibility to your posts when you said this.

PCSX2 relies 100x more on your CPU than on your GPU.
There's only a few games that are actually heavy on the GPU.

the games i play only use gpu

[Blyss Sarania]

the games i play only use gpu

Example?