Performance: i3-2100 or Overclocked Pentium E5700?

[Ryan Hz]

I have a crappy desktop (pentium E5700, ASUS GT640), and I use my notebook to do everything from work to gaming for almost 2 year now, never able to play AAA games.

Just help my cousin to build his budget gaming pc recently and he agreed to let me salvage some part from his old computer.

 

So i bought a new GTX1050TI 4gb and build a rig with the i3-2100 processor and motherboard i got from my cousin's old pc.

 

I was able to play rise of the tomb raider at high settings with 60 fps most of the time, sometimes it goes down to 30-40 fps when in open area, PUBG are able to run at 40 - 70 fps on lowest settings depend on the area I'm in. I was pretty satisfy with the result, but when check with rivatuner, I found out that the i3-2100 is bottle-necking the gpu and was pin at 100% usage all the time when i play graphic-demanding games. 

 

Just found out that my old processor 3.0 GHz Pentium E5700 is overclockable, there are video on youtube where some guy manage to overclock it up to 3.8 GHz. Will using the Pentium processor give me improve performance over i3-2100(3.1GHz) if I overclock it to higher clock speed?

 

If I would have bought a new cpu, what would you guys prefer? I'm on a REALLY tight budget, any cheap cpu that won't bottleneck the GTX1050ti will do.

[Crunchy Dragon]

How tight of a budget are you on? You might be able to find an i5-2400 used.

[PoorPcGamer]

easy get a g4560 with that 1050ti of yours you should be able to run some high end games at 1080p med 

 

[monjessenstein]

If I had to guess I'd say your 2100 would actually perform better, since it's a newer architecture and has hyperthreading, to the point where the extra 700mhz won't be able to make up the difference.

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

How tight of a budget are you on? You might be able to find an i5-2400 used.

Exactly. Some can be found and reused from old prebuilt systems that are very cheap because of dead storage drives or dead RAM.

 

Dont bother with the E5700, no practacal OC results will balance out the lack of hyperthreading and IPC difference.

[PoorPcGamer]

Either that or go to a pc scrapyard and boonkgang their mmh just buy the cpu on its own 

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W07570225&cm_re=intel_pentium_g4560-_-19-117-743-_-Product

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 minutes ago, PoorPcGamer said:

easy get a g4560 with that 1050ti of yours you should be able to run some high end games at 1080p med

If the OP is on as tight of a budget as they claim, they won't be able to afford a G4560, a new motherboard, and DDR4 memory.

[PoorPcGamer]

5 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

If the OP is on as tight of a budget as they claim, they won't be able to afford a G4560, a new motherboard, and DDR4 memory.

the cpu is cheap tbh only thing that might be expensive is the memory 

 

its a tough situation 

but you can also go resale

[Ryan Hz]

27 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

How tight of a budget are you on? You might be able to find an i5-2400 used.

Like REALLY REALLY tight haha, I'm studying in a college right now and I work part time on every saturday,

RM50/day (about 13 dollar i would say). i5-2400 might be an option, found one around $90.

33 minutes ago, PoorPcGamer said:

easy get a g4560 with that 1050ti of yours you should be able to run some high end games at 1080p med 

 

ddr4 memory, meaning that I will need to get a new board, a big nono

 

32 minutes ago, PoorPcGamer said:

Either that or go to a pc scrapyard and boonkgang their mmh just buy the cpu on its own 

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W07570225&cm_re=intel_pentium_g4560-_-19-117-743-_-Product

It won't be easy to find one in where I live haha , but i do think i5-2400 suggested by  @Crunchy Dragon is a pretty solid choice

43 minutes ago, monjessenstein said:

If I had to guess I'd say your 2100 would actually perform better, since it's a newer architecture and has hyperthreading, to the point where the extra 700mhz won't be able to make up the difference.

Thanks for the answer, will keep the 2100 for now.