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Cerebralbore101 on 16 May 2017
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Captain_Yuri said:
Cerebralbore101 said:


I didn't think the stock fan was very good so I went for a $5 fan that was bigger. Thermal paste was just trying to cover all the bases. My friend says that if you don't get thermal paste you are asking for trouble. Some of the parts are wierd and wonky, because I was trying to get something *only* as powerful as a basic PS4, while keeping the price as low as possible.

It really doesn't matter because the CPU prices between our builds are about the same, but how does a dual core 3.5 Ghz compare to the 8 core 1.6 Ghz in a PS4? Does hyperthreading really make that big of a difference?

It's not about hyperthreading but efficiency. The ps4's cores are weak sauce cores, having 8 of them means nothing. On desktop, the closest we have is the A6-5200. It is a quad core running at 2.0ghz (vs ps4's 1.6ghz) but the performance difference is giant compared to the pentium.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-A6-5200-APU-vs-Intel-Pentium-G4620/m4574vs3895

And it does matter because the prices doesn't tell the entire story... The Pentium is way faster than the CPU you choose.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-A8-7600-APU-vs-Intel-Pentium-G4620/m14050vs3895

I don't get it. Why can't 8 cores do the same amount of work as two faster cores? If you have two cores working at oh say 1 Ghz vs eight cores working at 500 Mhz isn't that equal? Isn't 0.5 Ghz times eight the same as 1 Ghz times two?