HoloDust on 15 December 2015
| Bofferbrauer said: The Pentium is slightly stronger than the Athlon X4, but some games won't work anymore on CPUs with only 2 logical cores, like Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Which is why I prefered to choose the Athlon over the Pentium. The era of the dualcores is coming to an end |
That was my main reasoning for picking 860K for that $500 build...but then, with patch:
And there are cases like this one (this is the most extreme I've come across):
Still, I don't feel fully comfortable with Pentium Gs, unlike i3 that are still efficiently circumventing 2 cores with hyperthreading...but, I guess that's the price for better performance and upgrade option at such a low price.
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