Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 vs Intel Pentium G3220

[ukLz]

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 vs Intel Pentium G3220 ?

I know that I have some sites like cpuboss.com to compare processors, but I want yours opinion about those 2 processor and which one is better ?

Plus, is E8400 good CPU for today's games and is it good processor for 775 mainboards ?


Thanks in advance.

 

[InvalidError]

The E8400 will be a perpetual bottleneck in nearly every remotely recent game. If you want to buy an ancient CPU and have a fighting chance in newer games, get at least a Q9650. Finding a "good" LGA775 motherboard is going to be difficult since they have been discontinued several years ago.

The G3220 won't be great either but at least it gives you the option of upgrading to an i5 later and components for it will be much easier to find.

 

[Xtergo]

atleast go G3258 thats the bare minimum that performs well as an intel dual core.

 

[ukLz]

The E8400 will be a perpetual bottleneck in nearly every remotely recent game. If you want to buy an ancient CPU and have a fighting chance in newer games, get at least a Q9650. Finding a "good" LGA775 motherboard is going to be difficult since they have been discontinued several years ago.

The G3220 won't be great either but at least it gives you the option of upgrading to an i5 later and components for it will be much easier to find.

Oh.. thanks
I'm asking for this because I have E8400 and my friend has G3220
I bought E8400 for like 16€ and it's not working very well as I expected...

However, I am still trying to find some very good 775 processor which is strong

It's some Core 2 Extreme, but it's expensive.. for me.. it's around 75€ :/

 

[InvalidError]

Even if you could get a Q9650 with a suitable board, you would still be lagging behind the Pentium G32xx for single-threaded performance, which means many games would still have sub-par performance. Of course, if you go with the Pentium, games that make non-trivial use of more than two threads might start lagging on it too.

If you want decent gaming performance, you will need a bigger budget. Personally, I would not consider anything below the i3-4220 as viable for anything much beyond web browsing and running an office suite.

 

[ukLz]

Even if you could get a Q9650 with a suitable board, you would still be lagging behind the Pentium G32xx for single-threaded performance, which means many games would still have sub-par performance. Of course, if you go with the Pentium, games that make non-trivial use of more than two threads might start lagging on it too.

If you want decent gaming performance, you will need a bigger budget. Personally, I would not consider anything below the i3-4220 as viable for anything much beyond web browsing and running an office suite.

Ohh.. Damn it.
So, I can only forget about 775 processors? Because they are already out-dated and they can't provide such good performance as some 1150 and other socket CPUs ?

I just wanted to buy some ASUS motherboard which has 775 socket and DDR3 memory slots. Because, having DDR2 and really.. shitty... I mean on performance and general speed of my PC

I really do not know what to do now.. I'm totally lost... :|

 

[InvalidError]

When Intel went from the Core2 to the Core i-series, there was an instantaneous ~60% performance-per-clock increase due to architectural improvement and integration of the memory controller. The Core2 cannot compete against modern chips because it has more than twice the memory access latency and a huge disadvantage on instructions per clock.

It can get some jobs done reasonably well but you cannot expect an eight years old chip based on a much slower architecture with major bottlenecks to compete favorably against modern chips where many of those bottlenecks have either been greatly improved or eliminated.

What you should do is simple: save until you can afford something more modern if you want a PC that can handle modern games and workloads reasonably well.

Of course, if you are stuck on a P3, P4 or early Athlon, a Core2 E8400 would still be a significant upgrade. Just not one with much useful life left in it beyond web browsing and office apps.

 

[ukLz]

When Intel went from the Core2 to the Core i-series, there was an instantaneous ~60% performance-per-clock increase due to architectural improvement and integration of the memory controller. The Core2 cannot compete against modern chips because it has more than twice the memory access latency and a huge disadvantage on instructions per clock.

It can get some jobs done reasonably well but you cannot expect an eight years old chip based on a much slower architecture with major bottlenecks to compete favorably against modern chips where many of those bottlenecks have either been greatly improved or eliminated.

What you should do is simple: save until you can afford something more modern if you want a PC that can handle modern games and workloads reasonably well.

Of course, if you are stuck on a P3, P4 or early Athlon, a Core2 E8400 would still be a significant upgrade. Just not one with much useful life left in it beyond web browsing and office apps.

Understood.. Thanks a lot !