Intel i3 3220 3.3ghz a good processor?

[FixupSellon]

Seen it on a shops site as part of a mobo bundle.

Don't know if it matter but rest of bundle is:

Asus P8H61 MX R2.0
4gb ddr3 1333mhz

Haven't looked at specs properly but what I've read on the site seems impressive, but at £117, is it lol

 

[wazza300]

its ok,depends what you wanna do

 

[Martini1991]

For 117 quid in 2015, I'd rather not.

Then again, what you using it for?

 

[FixupSellon]

Well until I can afford or atleast decide if I want a mini pc for general use and upgrade my current system for gaming, I will likely just upgrade what I got and use that for everything.

My uses are low.really.

General use ie browse, emails, downloading, YouTube watching stuff like that.

Gaming wise, pretty light.

Flash games like fb or Google etc, old games like sims2, theme hospital, sim city etc(old.school gamer lol) with the mix of more modern like nfs shift and free games from Steam like Path.of.Exile, team fortress etc, used to play wow and world of tanks, but been well over a year however might try tanks again and minecraft.

I'm not a heavy gamer like before and I had a decent i5 laptop back then.

Won't play anything like.battlefield(not 3 or 4 anyways) or call of duty other than mw2 if people still play simply because I got most cod on xbox 360 including the newest ones, watchdog, gta5 and had battlefields.

I'm.really big on multiplayer games.

 

[pastymuncher]

The problem for me is that you would be buying into a dead socket. For your uses a Pentium K build seems like a good move. My wifes pc has a Pentium G3420 and that's used for youtube vids, facebook games etc and it does the job perfectly with the onboard graphics while consuming very little power. Other's would say it's AMD territory. I am sure someone will spec you soon.

 

[Randomface74]

not a good deal

 

[FixupSellon]

Thanks for the replies I did have my doubts.

You mention the K series pentium but what about just the G3220 for example? I have turned up frequency slightly before but not really bothered about overlooking which i know the K is good for.

I was originally thinking Asus h81 m plus board with g3220 for costs and still better than my current cpu and the fact I get can tenner off the board at another shop.

 

[pastymuncher]

I built two similar pc's last year. One for the wife that I mentioned above with the G3420 and one for the sister in law with a G3220 and a Asrock H81-HDS (£35 board). Both just use the Intel HD graphics and are perfect for Internet game and older games. They run extremely cool and use very little power. Not sure what they would be like with Path of Exile though. One thing you wouldn't have to worry about with a G3220 is if the motherboard comes with a bios that supports it out of the box unlike the Pentium K which may need a bios flash. Even better is that you can pick them up really cheaply second hand.