That Pentium will really stick it to the FX chips for gaming!
By that extension it will also it stick to most of the sub £200 Intel chips for gaming too!
It will have higher lightly threaded performance overclocked than anything bar an overclocked Core i5 4670K.
ASRock says around 4.4GHZ is what they got.
Great for WoT and means no one needs to consider a Core i5 4670K for "many" games,right??
But I suppose you were making a generalisation.
Oh wait,most of you have Core i5s and Core i7s for the multi-threaded performance,since you know that is where things are heading. A bit disingenuous,no?
Try BF4 MP with a decent card,or Thief or Watch Dogs.
Let me remind you:
http://oi58.tinypic.com/2nivdli.jpg
http://static.techspot.com/articles-info/827/bench/CPU_01.png
The chap who did the first test,noted the G3420 was choppy even with Mantle. Look at how much HT adds to performance.
That is even before taking frame-times into consideration.
I will say it now,when DX12 arrives in the next year(preceded by multiple Mantle titles),a Core i3/FX6300/FX8320/locked Core i5 are going to have the performance advantage at stock in many new generation titles.
If this chip was released a few years ago,things would have been different,but things are changing now due to the console updates.
No amount of overclocking is going to really help longterm.
Lets hope so...
Shame there is no H/T/it isn't an i3. Puts a bit of a dampener on is after chips like the i3 530. Dual core, quad thread, some were good for 4.6GHz, and that was just a "normal" CPU.
The thing is we have been here before though. E8400 vs Q6600 and even G6950 vs Core i3 530.
A Core i3 K series would have rocked. Better lightly thread performance than most sub £200 Intel CPUs when overclocked and multi-threaded performance approaching Core i5 level.
A bit like a Core i3 530 was(yes you could overclock the Core i5 750,but the whole setup was cheaper,than getting a Core i5 750 and a cheap motherboard IIRC).
The thing is this a safe move from Intel,since they know people would say buy a Pentium K series with a more expensive motherboard. Then in the next year or so,when the performance starts going south,they have repeat business when people buy Core i5 or Core i7 CPUs to replace them with.
So they:
1.)Get repeat business quicker.
2.)Get people to spend more on an expensive motherboard in the first place.They make more money out of higher end chipsets. Thats assuming that people don't find a way around that.
Its better they probably stuck with a Core i3,Core i5 with a cheaper motherboard or an alternate CPU in the first place.
A Core i3 K series would have done the same as the Core i3 530.
Plenty of people had overclocked Core i3 530 CPUs and didn't even bother upgrading them,meaning it was years until they bought another setup.
