So I bought a PC. Is it any good?

[Dusk]

JRPGfan said:

Dusk said:
You are going to have to see if you can put more RAM into it. Shouldn't be too much of an issue. Also there is no mention of a GPU that I noticed, but since it looks to be fairly small form factor you might not be able to put one in, plus I doubt the PSU can support a whole lot.
The CPU is actually a pretty decent CPU even to today's standards. The new chips have a lot more features, but these older ones actually still perform quite well.
As far as gaming goes, you likely aren't going to be able to do a whole lot since it's likely just using intel graphics.
Good buy as far a price though.

Its a C2D, without hyperthreading.

Its a dual core, like the Pentium g3258.

But the "instructions pr clock" performance of a C2D is like half of what a haswell is... or something crazy like that.

Basically a C2D @3ghz is like a haswell at 1.5ghz.

 

A G3258 that you overclocked to 4.5ghz will make a 3ghz C2D look really dated.

Thats 69$ alone for the cpu though.

If only that actually was how performance were. On a benchmark, yeah it might show that, with the upgrades I stated it will perform decently, especially for a computer that cost $99. In real world use, those processors still do well.