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greenmedic88 on 23 March 2016
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Raistline said:
sabvre42 said:

People that rave about how cheap PC gaming is usually pirate the OS :-/ (at least from what I've personally seen), or use either the Academic or profession version of MSDN to snag a license.

Also note that the CPU he picked is straight up crap. You need at least an i5 for gaming, and you probably want 16GB of ram on a PC at this point. 8GB is definately acceptable, but you start to hit issues with multitasking and caching (similiar to a SSHD, commonly accessed files and apps are cached in ram so that they can load up faster). that causes slowness for the OS.

Slight disagreement on a couple points.

Gaming is perfectly fine with at least a quid core i3, there is little difference in gaming benchmarks between and i3 and comparable i5. But yes, the Pentium is not really meant for gaming, it does not have nearly enough onboard cache nor the overall processing power needed for high quality gaming.

For gaming you do not need anything more than 8GB of RAM, most games don't even come close to using that much. There are very few instances that any normal PC user will encounter that they will need more than 8GB of ram unless they use creative applications such anything in the  Adobe CS Suite, or high fidelity audio editing, or CAD software.

Have to agree here. The i5 is what a game PC builder would use in something closer to an $800 and up build. Under that and the additional budget allocated to CPU would be better spent on more GPU.

The i3 is perfectly suitable for the $500 gaming PC, not that we're looking at an enviable set up.