BF4 G3220 or i3 4130?

[charles555]

what will be the difference of this two cpu when running BF4?
and is i3 worth buying even if i want to play this game in single player only?

 

[Austin R]

i3 would preform a lot better....What is the difference? CPU has it in its name...
I would suggest a better CPU tbh.

 

[photonboy]

Not sure how well any dual-core CPU would work.

I saw one benchmark that had the i3-3220 right near the top (apparent GPU bottleneck) but that's a SINGLE PLAYER benchmark.

I saw a MULTIPLAYER benchmark and the i5-4670K was using 95% of its four cores which is about 2x more processing than the i3-3220 has.

 

[WhiteSnake91]

I've seen lots of videos of the i3 playing bf4 multiplayer with like 98-99% core usage, so if you ever think you'd want to play multiplayer at least get the i3. They got pretty good fps playing on ultra with msaa turned off with a gtx 660. They had windows 8.1 though, and I have windows 7. It was maddening seeing a lesser setup than mine get way better fps >_>

if for single player ONLY, the pentium would be fine, they're still the same cores, they're strong. But I imagine wouldn't fare well at all in multiplayer.

edit:here's a video I found of the pentium on multiplayer lol, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Er-wXiPyjE

 

[charles555]

Thanks for all your reply. I was just thinking if there is any offline games that I cannot play or lag with the G3220 processor to convince me in buying i3 4130.

 

[WhiteSnake91]

for offline only the Pentium would be fine

 

[charles555]

So it means that I can run any offline games without lag with this kind of cpu? All i need is to find a good GPU is that right?

 

[WhiteSnake91]

you should be fine, just don't expect 60fps in Crysis 3 or Metro, what GPU were you thinking about getting?

 

[charles555]

GTX 650 sir or 650 ti. What happen to a game when it run lower than 60fps??

 

[WhiteSnake91]

nothing, it just doesn't "feel" as smooth. Like for example compare Battlefield 3 or 4 running at 30fps on Xbox 360 compared to COD Black Ops 2 or Ghosts running at 60fps.

some prefer 30fps and claim it feels more cinematic, for single player only stuff, personally I'd be fine with 30fps as long as it didn't drop below that and get all choppy. 30fps isn't the end of the world contrary to what the elitists online like to spout off. You'll be fine. Worst comes to worst you can save up money for an i5 one day, but it's not REALLY needed. The gpu is more important. Take a look at the R7 260x, it's better than the gtx 650 and around the same price, or the hd7770 or r7 250x 😀

 

[charles555]

Thanks, I'll check the price in our country. I'm just curious, can we control the fps of the game? and how can i check the my fps in a game

 

[leeb2013]

I'm sure in a benchmark I saw, the I3 was only 2-3fps off an FX-8350.