Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: January 2012 (Archive)

[Antaredja Kartasasmita]

Nah, Kaveri vs 5800k is only little to no upgrades at all, Id better keep the 5800k until the poor thing broke

 

[Wisecracker]

Nah, Kaveri vs 5800k is only little to no upgrades at all, Id better keep the 5800k until the poor thing broke

Actually, the differences between the Trinity/Richland CPUs and Kaveri are substantial from an architectural standpoint, including AMD's initial shot at HSA, higher IPC, improved IOMMU, a second fusion compute for the UNB, and a third fusion compute link for cache coherency (as part of the 'unified addressing') for the GCN CUs.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Most of that only takes effect when you use the iGPU, though. As CPUs only they're much closer.

 

[Sakkura]

Higher IPC but lower clocks -> very modest performance upgrade.

 

[Antaredja Kartasasmita]

As I thought, why would I waste $200 (its is $200 in my country) for a very little upgrade (To the CPU, not the GPU), I can buy doodads to make my rig better, or upgrade my GPU, or buy better RAM, or etc etc, $200 is a waste of money if I want an upgrade from A10-5800k to A10-7800k, unless I use the IGPU, in which currently, not (I'm using 750 ti FYI)

 

[logainofhades]

As I thought, why would I waste $200 (its is $200 in my country) for a very little upgrade (To the CPU, not the GPU), I can buy doodads to make my rig better, or upgrade my GPU, or buy better RAM, or etc etc, $200 is a waste of money if I want an upgrade from A10-5800k to A10-7800k, unless I use the IGPU, in which currently, not (I'm using 750 ti FYI)

$200 would easily get you an i3 4130 and an H81 board here. That is the problem FM2/FM2+ platform users have. There are no worthy upgrades unless you are running one of the dual core model APU's. If you have an A8 or A10, there is nothing worth getting. If wanting better GPU performance, you are better off getting a dedicated GPU. If worried about power consumption, the 750 and 750ti are great choices in such a situation.

 

[Antaredja Kartasasmita]

As I thought, why would I waste $200 (its is $200 in my country) for a very little upgrade (To the CPU, not the GPU), I can buy doodads to make my rig better, or upgrade my GPU, or buy better RAM, or etc etc, $200 is a waste of money if I want an upgrade from A10-5800k to A10-7800k, unless I use the IGPU, in which currently, not (I'm using 750 ti FYI)

$200 would easily get you an i3 4130 and an H81 board here. That is the problem FM2/FM2+ platform users have. There are no worthy upgrades unless you are running one of the dual core model APU's. If you have an A8 or A10, there is nothing worth getting. If wanting better GPU performance, you are better off getting a dedicated GPU. If worried about power consumption, the 750 and 750ti are great choices in such a situation.

Indeed good sir 😀, but most people today said that dual core cant do its job in gaming and just slowing down anything else like an old hag inbetween marathon runners, thats the first reason I dont pick Intel dual core CPUs

 

[logainofhades]

Haswell i3's are no slouch, and hold their own well. The only real competition they have is the FX 6300, and even it has to be overclocked to really compete.

 

[Antaredja Kartasasmita]

Haswell i3's are no slouch, and hold their own well. The only real competition they have is the FX 6300, and even it has to be overclocked to really compete.

Isnt it dual core? , and it CAN compete 6300?

Anyways I wont change my loyal CPU for a while, it performs REALLY well with my tiny pocket money back then, By far my favorite CPU

 

[Someone Somewhere]

It's got HT, and has far better IPC than the Piledriver chips do.

 

[Onus]

The i3 CPUs are dual core, but they have hyperthreading, which makes them act in many ways like (and appear to the operating system to be) quad-core CPUs.
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Some eight or ten years ago, I did a "how low can you go" experiment with a low-power AMD 4850e. It was fine for surfing, email, and programs like that, but seemed to slightly bottleneck a HD4670 in the original Guild Wars; I called it barely sufferable, which made it a good data point for me, but that's it. I'm thinking of trying something similar with a quad-core Kabini.

 

[Antaredja Kartasasmita]

The i3 CPUs are dual core, but they have hyperthreading, which makes them act in many ways like (and appear to the operating system to be) quad-core CPUs.
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Some eight or ten years ago, I did a "how low can you go" experiment with a low-power AMD 4850e. It was fine for surfing, email, and programs like that, but seemed to slightly bottleneck a HD4670 in the original Guild Wars; I called it barely sufferable, which made it a good data point for me, but that's it. I'm thinking of trying something similar with a quad-core Kabini.

You can always put pentium one, they still sell it here 😛

 

[logainofhades]

It is a dual core with hyperthreading. Also, Intel's cores are far more powerful than AMD's. 😉

 

[Antaredja Kartasasmita]

I know that, and It only cost about 10 dollar 😛

 

[vertexx]

I find it mildly amusing about how the conversation in this thread seems to go round and round in circles. But it's also somewhat depressing, because it means there is nothing really new to talk about. Maybe Devil's Canyon will mix it up a bit.... Nothing earth shattering, but something new at least.

 

[Antaredja Kartasasmita]

Indeed 😀

 

[SessouXFX]

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-core-i7-4790k-overclocked-to-5-5ghz-on-air-to-6-3ghz-with-ln2/

Well now...It seems things have gotten a bit more interesting.

 

[vertexx]

Just pre-ordered the G3258 off Newegg - not exactly sure what I'm going to do with it yet. I also want the 4790k, but I want to wait to see Microcenter prices.

 

[lunyone]

Curious to see how the G3258 Unlocked CPU will perform on a budget gaming system. I'm really interested in how Watch Dogs will perform with that CPU and like a R7 260/260x or even the GTX 750/750Ti.