Is the g3900 decent for budget gaming?

[dankknightavngr]

I really want to get into pc gaming, but im very poor kid 🙁 I heard that the skylake celeron will do decent gaming @low-high settings. Ill probably upgrade in a year. Im just gathering opinions of what people think of this mistreated,abused and beauty of a cheap processor

 

[breakingfelony]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3219734/celeron-g3900-gaming.html This has already been answered.

 

[ThomasKK]

The best budget CPU is Intel's G4400 (Skylake Dual core 3.3GHz). Or a bit more expensive Kaby Lake option G4600 (Dual core, 4 threads).

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

What GPU would you be using?

 

[SgtScream]

What games do you play?

 

[need4speeds]

Get the new Kabylake pentium with HT. It's closer to the skylake i3.

 

[need4speeds]

The FX-8300 or FX6300 or the athlonX4 is better to get than the celeron or skylake pentium. There are some games that wont run at all or very poorly with a dual core with no HT.

A used refirbished i5-2400 system or newer i5 system that includes windows 7 to 10 is also a good option. (Look for ones for sale locally so you can
see them working, make sure it has a pcie-16 slot and includes windows. )

-There is a new half height or low profile GTX1050ti out that fits in the SFF computers.

-Try to find one with a regular micro-atx case so you can get the smaller EVGA GTX 1060 instead that includes a molex to pcie adaptor.

 

[Ecky]

Get the new Kabylake pentium with HT. It's closer to the skylake i3.

This is the new budget king. The Pentium G4560 is a little more expensive than the Celeron, but it beats AMD's older 6 and sometimes even 8 core CPUs in games, punching well above its weight class.

 

[geofelt]

The new kaby lake processors come with HD630 graphics which is perhaps as good as a $100 discrete graphics card.
The entry for that is the G4600, a $82 part.

The nice thing is that any motherboard that supports a G4600 will support an upgrade to i3, i5, or i7

 

[Ecky]

I'd say a $100 discrete card is probably selling the HD630 too highly, which isn't architecturally any different than the older HD5xx iGPUs. It's more capable than something like a GT 730 or R7 240, but for $100 you can get an RX 460 or GTX 1050, which is orders of magnitude faster. That said, it's a steal at $82.

 

[ThomasKK]

don't even bother looking at AMD side since any newer core i3 dual core easily outperforms any FX 6 or 8-core AMD cpu and the new Kaby Lake Pentium G4600 is only from 2 to 5% slower than i3-6100.

 

[need4speeds]

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB SC GAMING Video Card ($204.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $204.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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[need4speeds]

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$292.50 total.

-Finding a system with more memory and hdd space would be better, maybe locally.

I mostly wanted to show the ONLY Low profile card that will work in these smaller sff systems if you find one for sale that is ok.

 

[dankknightavngr]

I ended up buying the g4400, I wanted to buy the g4560 but the shops wont sell the processors unless i bundle it with a 7th gen mobo which is expensive... almost same price as i3 6100 and kylake board...

 

[Ecky]

Hope it works out for you. The G4560 is the cheapest chip with hyperthreading, and in some cases it can be twice as fast in games as a G4400.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

I ended up buying the g4400, I wanted to buy the g4560 but the shops wont sell the processors unless i bundle it with a 7th gen mobo which is expensive... almost same price as i3 6100 and kylake board...

Now that you have a skylake board w/ G4400, could you update the BIOS yourself and purchase the G4560 online?

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/8gKhP6/intel-pentium-g4560-35ghz-dual-core-processor-bx80677g4560

You could sell your G4400 to compensate for the money spent.