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HoloDust said:

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:

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And there are cases like this one (this is the most extreme I've come across):

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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.

Yeah, the low end market is one with hard choices. The truth is that I found the 700 $/€ build the easiest one, with easy compromises and choices, while the 500 one was the most frustrating.

Perhaps the best advise for anyone asking help for a 500 $/€ build is to save another 200 first .