Gaming Shoot-Out: 18 CPUs And APUs Under $200, Benchmarked

[nokiddingboss]

I do believe the test still is done completely irrelevantly to the situations in which they're used; if you buy a sub-$200 CPU, you sure as hell won't be buying a big-ass graphics card, and you won't buy the highest performing motherboard either.

I was very excited to see this test until I realized it was completely irrelevant to my needs. If this test could be done again with realistic circumstances, I'd be very happy. Testing budget CPUs in budget builds and checking how they stand out is what people should do o.o

im pretty sure that if the test were done using a 7870/gtx 660 or lower then the fx and the i5/i3 will essentially be a tie. it doesn't matter if you go intel or amd, at the $200 below gpu bracket and as long as the cpu can juggle 4 threads, processing horse power will not matter which is why the test is done using a high end card; to show just how much scaling those cpu's have. besides, intel doesn't want the general public to know something as trivial as that

 

[littleleo]

I bought my i5-3570K from Micro Center for $189, if there is one near you there is no question what to get.