I was wondering why no one ever recommends this chip?
I see lots of threads here asking for advice and it's always the i5 or i7 recommended with the odd one who would recommend the 1050t by AMD.
At $80, easy to overclock to 4ghz surely this can't be that bad of a chip? Are there many games out there that use more then 2 cores? I remember 2 years ago there was massive debates between the E8400 vs the Q6600 and even then people said that "future games will use quads so we should get quads". 2 years later, the same arguement is still being used
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So I'm just wondering, is there something bad with this chip or is it just because it's not a quad core? I mean, I'm not knocking the i5 or the i7, I know their excellent chips but you can get an i3 + Motherboard for around 140 bucks, i5 + decent MB is probably around 250-300 and don't even get me started on the price of triple channel memory for the i7
Do they scale as well with high end GPU's?
On topic, would the 555 phenom be a better purchase since there's the possibility of unlocking it into a quad-core? It doesn't overclock aswel thou but still, it's back to the same old arguement dual vs quad
I am speaking strictly from a gaming perspective by the way, I realise for video-encoding or multi-tasking the higher end CPUs are much better.
I see lots of threads here asking for advice and it's always the i5 or i7 recommended with the odd one who would recommend the 1050t by AMD.
At $80, easy to overclock to 4ghz surely this can't be that bad of a chip? Are there many games out there that use more then 2 cores? I remember 2 years ago there was massive debates between the E8400 vs the Q6600 and even then people said that "future games will use quads so we should get quads". 2 years later, the same arguement is still being used
. So I'm just wondering, is there something bad with this chip or is it just because it's not a quad core? I mean, I'm not knocking the i5 or the i7, I know their excellent chips but you can get an i3 + Motherboard for around 140 bucks, i5 + decent MB is probably around 250-300 and don't even get me started on the price of triple channel memory for the i7
Do they scale as well with high end GPU's?
On topic, would the 555 phenom be a better purchase since there's the possibility of unlocking it into a quad-core? It doesn't overclock aswel thou but still, it's back to the same old arguement dual vs quad
I am speaking strictly from a gaming perspective by the way, I realise for video-encoding or multi-tasking the higher end CPUs are much better.