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Celeron G1620 ok for gaming?

No it's not a great pairing with those GPUs at all. It definately isn't going to do 4k.

It's a £30 CPU aimed at office PCs. It'll play older stuff OK but in anything recent it'll be painfully slow.
 
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What motherboard do you have? You can pick up the non-K i5 chips fairly cheap and they'll be the better option if your motherboard doesn't allow for overclocking (H61, H67, H77 & B75 based 1155 boards). You can still go for a K model though if you find one at a decent price :).
 
PowerPie5000 said:
What motherboard do you have? You can pick up the non-K i5 chips fairly cheap and they'll be the better option if your motherboard doesn't allow for overclocking (H61, H67, H77 & B75 based 1155 boards). You can still go for a K model though if you find one at a decent price :).
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I've been keeping a lookout for a freind, and the 2300/2400/2500 don't seam to be much cheaper than a 2500k TBH. Overclocking 1155 motherboards don't seam to come very cheap though.
 
Don't buy a non K Sandy.

The clock speeds are completely lame. At least with Haswell the lower end chips have slightly better clocks.

I used to run a I5 2400 non K (well, in Xeon flavour) and it used to bottle neck the crap out of me in gaming due to the lame 3ghz or so clock.
 

i know, y'all gonna be screaming omagerd linustechtips!!
but i think it's relevant here...
low end cpu + high end gpu does not a good gaming rig make.
 
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low end cpu + high end gpu does not a good gaming rig make.
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But what if that low end CPU is Intel?

INTEL I SAY.

Ahem.

From my own experience I found Intel's non K range to be a complete waste of time for gaming. It only took around six months before the CPU started to show its age and I feel it wasn't exactly a low end like an I3 (I5 2400, one stop from the 2500k, cost £125).

They just don't cut it. For a gaming CPU you need overclocking. Even if it's an AMD at least you can give it a shove if and when the time comes (and with PC gaming it will, sooner rather than later).

I don't quite understand why Intel started locking everything. Well I do, it's called greed, but they've shot themselves in the foot.

At least if they had an unlocked I3 they may lose some sales because people would buy it rather than the I5 (if they only needed two threads and two HT for example) but all they're achieving is complete loss of sale to AMD. So personally I think they would have been better off to accept the lesser of two evils but no, all about making people buy the K.

Before any one mentions the Pentium. It's a toy. Reviews and benchmarks demonstrated this.

So Intel have basically waved the mid range over to AMD completely. Nice of them, but rather stupid if you ask me.
 
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