CPU help, bang for the buck performance.

[Alacszander]

Im looking strictly as of right now bang for the buck performance, not about future proofing and all that jazz, also building from scratch.  

 

So I was thinking about buying a used qx6700 or q6600 and OC them, or getting a new pentium g4560. The q6600 I can get for $17.57 CAD, the qx6700 about $45 CAD, or a pentium g4560 for $90 CAD. 

I tried looking at benchmarks on generic cpu comparison sites but they usually run the cpus at stock speed so its not exactly indicative of the performance i would get if i OC'd the q6600 or qx6700. 

Any info and tips help. 

 

Edit: Based on research I feel like getting an OC to about 3.3-3.5 ghz on the q6600 and qx6700 would be possible, which is close to the clockspeed of the pentium, but I dont know if the current gen architecture will help the pentium have an edge over the few years old lga 775 cpus.  Also forgot to mention was for gaming

Edited April 22, 2017 by Alacszander
Forgot to mention about what I was trying to OC the lga 775 cpus to.

[WestcoastPCBuilder]

i new kaby lake would have roughly a 60% improvement over old conroe LGA775 chips clock for clock. G4560 all the way. unless your just websurfing, $17 buck, can't go wrong. For gaming etc go new chips.

 

http://www.techspot.com/article/1039-ten-years-intel-cpu-compared/page5.html

[Alacszander]

forgot to mention was for gaming, whoops.

[Alacszander]

11 minutes ago, WestcoastPCBuilder said:

i new kaby lake would have roughly a 60% improvement over old conroe LGA775 chips clock for clock. G4560 all the way. unless your just websurfing, $17 buck, can't go wrong. For gaming etc go new chips.

 

http://www.techspot.com/article/1039-ten-years-intel-cpu-compared/page5.html

Based on the article, im assuming they ran all the cpus at stockspeed. So isnt the data not truly accurate if im planning to OC the q6600 or qx6700 ?

[Boomax7299]

-Pentium G4560

-i3 7100

-i5 7500

[WestcoastPCBuilder]

look at metro, how bad it is, an OC isn't gonna change much, look at the i3 - 4350, does just fine. 

[asand1]

Look for an OEM machine with an i7-2600 or i5-2400 and 8gb DDR3. Should be able to get something $150. Then upgrade PSU and GPU.

 

Or build from scratch using the cheapest new components you can. Higher end older would be better bang for the buck.

[He_162]

1ghz on the pentium is essentially 1.6ghz on those q6xxx chips, so it in and of itself is faster than them with it's hyperthreading over their 4 cores.

 

The Pentium G4560 is as fast as an i3-6100 in terms of gaming performance, and it's got plenty of cheap motherboard options to choose from.

 

Pentium all the way!