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If I am looking for more performance in gaming, would it be better to get a cpu with more cores(threads) or a cpu with a faster processing speed?(a difference of less than 1 GHz)

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Higher clock is usually better for gaming, but what CPUs are you comparing?

intel core i3-7100 and intel core i5- 7400

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Generally better single core performance has been better for gaming. Games will only use a certain number of CPU cores so anything above what they would use is not going to help you. More cores is nice if you have software that can take advantage of them and/or you tend to run several CPU intensive tasks.

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2 minutes ago, JohnCarlHenry said:

intel core i3-7100 and intel core i5- 7400

Get the i5.

 

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23 minutes ago, JohnCarlHenry said:

If I am looking for more performance in gaming, would it be better to get a cpu with more cores(threads) or a cpu with a faster processing speed?(a difference of less than 1 GHz)

 

19 minutes ago, JohnCarlHenry said:

intel core i3-7100 and intel core i5- 7400

 

Many games are not well multi-threaded. Higher clock speed will get more work done with only 1 or 2 threads active.

Even those games that are more multithreaded still rely on a primary thread to run the core game. The faster that thread runs the higher the maximum possible FPS (depending on graphics performance)

Basically, for high FPS gaming, core clock is king. For high resolution, but a more typical framerate of 60 FPS, then the CPU doesn't really matter, as long as it is fast enough. So then an i5 7400 is good enough for gaming and great for multitasking. Which for many people makes a lot of sense.

For older games you could get away with a fast dual core. That is becoming less and less true, but for the vast majority of people a quad core is good enough.

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22 minutes ago, JohnCarlHenry said:

intel core i3-7100 and intel core i5- 7400

i5 for sure, but why those and not 8th gen parts?

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For gaming, a higher frequency is better than core count, but you also want to make sure the architecture is decent. 

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56 minutes ago, JohnCarlHenry said:

If I am looking for more performance in gaming, would it be better to get a cpu with more cores(threads) or a cpu with a faster processing speed?(a difference of less than 1 GHz)

Games takes advantage of fewer cores with higher clock speed than multiple cores with lower clock speed, that's why 8700K is still the fastest gaming CPU compare to 7980X which has 12 more cores compare to 8700K 

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1 hour ago, JohnCarlHenry said:

intel core i3-7100 and intel core i5- 7400

I5 7400 is a quad core whiles I3 7100 is dual core , technically they both have same of threads but the I5 have higher multi cores performances thanks to it extra 2 cores . So games takes advantage of the I5 that's why is faster than I3 

 

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8 hours ago, DocSwag said:

i5 for sure, but why those and not 8th gen parts?

I'm kinda trying to min max paying less if the increase in performance is not that much. Then again I really haven't looked at the gen8 stuff yet

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1 hour ago, JohnCarlHenry said:

I'm kinda trying to min max paying less if the increase in performance is not that much. Then again I really haven't looked at the gen8 stuff yet

Gen 8 i3s are rebrands of Gen 7 i5s.

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