Best Budget CPU

What's the best CPU under $200 right now?

i5 2500K. Get it to 4 Ghz and you can expect Ryzen 5 1600 performance

Oh vey
Any ryzen which is under 200$ will be best.
2500k can suck my dick.
This shit is like 8 years old

Might be but it still outperforms mid level AMD processors. Just before Ryzen AMD didn't have ANY processor that could beat an OC'd 2500K.

2500k, unless you need VT-d or the latest instruction sets, which I very much doubt 99% of the people here would benefit from. So get one.

the r e f u r b i s h e d sector deals with complete systems.

I suggest you to lurk into the r e f u r b i s h e d sector mate la

Check teksyndicate's 8350 vs 3770k vs 3820 on jewtube.
Sup Forums is a bottomless pit of idiocy and ignorance.

Yeah it can decompress a rar file faster but in any real life application the 8350 gets BTFO in some cases even by an i3. It was woeful.

>gaems are real life applications now
the state of Sup Forums circa 2017

The question says right now not last year

Answer remains the same.

Lol.

Performance in what, exactly? R51600 at 3.6GHz approaches a fucking xeon x5650.

The 2500k is no slouch but come the fuck on, be reasonable.

that's two xeons (the X5650 is a 6c/12t cpu), but to be fair this thing is from the first intel core gen and it was made in fucking 65nm

And the 2500k gets like 700cb at 5ghz

or, you know, you can get a r5 1600.

See if you can get a deal on Ryzen 5 1600. Even if you can't, going to ~$210 to get it still pays off, I'd say it's a no brainer.

It's the combination of getting 6 cores + it has relativelly low clock, so you save money and get the performance up by OCing to 3.8-3.9 GHz (depending on how far it can be pushed resonably).

FFS not 2500K. i7-2600K might make sense if cheap, but 2500K is just too limited in addition to being old. Those things have often been strongly-OCed since 2011, so they might be degraded when you buy them.

No dude, "first Core" was 32bit mobile only trash.
These 6C/12T have to be 32nm Westmeres (Nehalem die-shrink). 4 generations later, early 2010 IIRC.

>4 low IPC cores vs 6 high ipc cores
intelfags everyone

why would you want to be stuck on a dead socket?

i want to build a dogshit cheapaf athlon x4 880k or something, i think that would be a fun time

Isn't every Intel socket a dead socket these days?
We're kinda past the LGA775 glory days ;_;