I’m on a $1,500 budget - Help me purchase my first gaming PC

[Bofferbrauer2]

SvennoJ said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

I can't remember ever seeing any hexacore CPU with this low a clock speed, I think even the slowest Phenom hexacore is 2.6Ghz and Core-based ones over 3Ghz. Unless it was a server CPU, of course...

It's a laptop CPU, i7-8750H. It can boost up to 4.1 ghz, but with games it then quickly gets too hot and throttles. So you can only really use it for gaming with Turbo disabled for steady performance, hence 2.2 ghz.

At least with a desktop you don't have to manage heat as well!

I guess there is no way to throttle it to 3.0ghz, dunno how Turbo works but ThrottleStop only has an on/off toggle for it. Same as setting max processor state to 99% in Windows (which doesn't work anymore, hence ThrottleStop)

Yeah it's obsolete
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-8750H+%40+2.20GHz&id=3237

It was good for 1080p gaming though, just now starting to struggle with new releases.

Still better than my old one, a 7700HQ coupled with a 1050Ti. And that Dell was so badly built it throttled on both of them without needing to stress them...