The Intel “I Won’t Regret Buying” Skylake Build by Nielzx

Hey guys, it’s been a while since I did a random article at all so I decided to make one. This random article is about me buying PC components without even thinking if I need it or not. So what happened here is… I’m so bored so I decided to browse PC components online but after awhile, I found myself at the payout PayPal page.

This build is based off our new Skylake Php20,000 Gaming PC Build Guide for 2016 Q1 and while BossMac will be handling the performance data on that part, I’ve managed to piece the build together for my own amusement just to see how it goes in my end. While this doesn’t 100% follow the build, it sticks to the core components with some changes in components so performance should be more impressive than our G4400+GTX950 build.

So I ended up buying the following:

1. Intel G4400
   
2. Sharkoon VS4-W
   
3. MSI B150M PRO-VD
   
4. Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 2GB 128Bit GDDR5
   
5. G.Skill Ripjaws V 8GB Dual DDR4 2400
   
6. Patriot Blast 120GB SSD
   
7. Western Digital Black 1TB
   
8. Seasonic G-550 550W 80Plus Gold Modular
   

I spent a total amount of PHP 29,500+.

This is a setup for gaming that is based on Intel Skylake and I call this the “I Won’t Regret” build configuration. Actually, I prefer to call this the “Impulse Buying” build that I just chose online and bought it without even thinking if I need it or not. Yes, totally random but given that we already recommended it… why the hell not.

This is basically an unofficial build guide we’re putting together for the Php30,000 Gaming PC range but due to our tiering, we’d most likely recommended a Core i3-6100 more that would drive the price upwards. As of right now, this is just a blog post to see where we’re at at this point in time and what we can expect from such a configuration. Hopefully we can roll this out soon together with an i3-6100 comparison to see if the additional cost is worth it for gaming.

I looked around to get an idea on the possible performance of this combo and found tests where this setup of an Intel Pentium G4400 paired with GTX 960 is benchmarked. According to http://benchmarks-tests.com/ this setup can play 60FPS average on Tomb Raider with settings set to High.

Tomb Raider 1080p High

Processor Graphics Card	Frames Per Second (Higher is better)
Intel Pentium G4400 GeForce GTX 960	46 62.3 80
AMD A6-6420K GeForce GTX 960	44 61.2 80
Intel Core i3-6300 AMD Radeon R9 380	46 62.1

Console Benchmark (According to eurogamer.net)

3DMark Fire Strike 1080p

Processor Graphics Card	3DMark Fire Strike — Score (Higher is better)
Intel Pentium G4400 GeForce GTX 960	5851
AMD A6-6420K GeForce GTX 960	3860
Intel Core i3-4160 AMD Radeon R9 380	6654

Not bad ain’t it? Now all that is left is to look for someone nearby to buy this setup from me after I get it running.