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a used i3 or i5

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1 minute ago, Yoo Song Won said:

Cant. Friend wants new

 

not very smart if hes on a budget

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Athlon is faster on multi-core tasks and pentium on single core tasks. If he's going to game on it, take the pentium and oc it to 4.5 or 4.6 ghz .

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14 minutes ago, Yoo Song Won said:

My friend is on a super tight budget and wants a cheap cpu. should he get a 

AMD Athlon X4 860K or intel pentium g3258

If you really want new, it depends on the workload. For just gaming I think the G3258 is better (you can do some badass overclocking on it) but for things like video-editting I would go for the Quad-core AMD

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2 minutes ago, R3KT said:

If you really want new, it depends on the workload. For just gaming I think the G3258 is better (you can do some badass overclocking on it) but for things like video-editting I would go for the Quad-core AMD

Just keep in mind that the pentium may struggle a bit on games that require quad cores, like Far Cry 4, which I heard that it won't even open on a dual core.

Main Rig: CPU: A10-7850K(+stock cooler) / MB: some random FM2+ OEM / GPU: GTX 660 / RAM: 16 GB-1600 mhz / PSU: CORSAIR VS650 / HDD: 1 TB WD Blue (games) + 1 TB SEAGATE (series/other) / SSD: KINGSTONE V300 128GB (OS) / OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 Bits / CASE: Corsair 200R

Secondary Rig: CPU: A8-6800k (+stock cooler) / MB: MSI A78M-E45 / GPU: Using integrated from the APU / RAM: 4 GB 1600mhz / PSU: 500W (Came with the case) / HDD: 2 TB WD Blue (Movies) + External 4 TB CASE: B-Move Thyra

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1 minute ago, WhiteManito said:

Just keep in mind that the pentium may struggle a bit on games that require quad cores, like Far Cry 4, which I heard that it won't even open on a dual core.

Indeed, forgot to mention that. Games like cities:skylines are also pretty heavy on the CPU.

On the other side of the spectrum you have Tomb: Raider, where it doesn't matter how many cores you have whatsoever

 

What games are you looking to play?

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