Intel Pentium G4560: Bang For Buck Gaming

Boomstick777 · 17 Jan 2017 at 09:47

~ £65, dual core hyper threaded Kaby Lake. But can it game?

Intel G4560 + GTX 1050 Ti - 1080p Ultra Gaming Benchmarks

Will The Pentium G4560 Bottleneck The GTX 1060 6gb?

Boomstick777 · 17 Jan 2017 at 09:51

Happy with this lil chip, baffled by it's performance. It's great in desktop and gaming. No reason at all to look at the i3's anymore. Especially with the current Kaby Lake i3 pricing.

Def the bang for buck king, all hail the king baby xD

bakes0310 · 17 Jan 2017 at 09:55

That is a spectacular CPU for a budget build. Would be fun to overclock the nuts off it as well.

benjii · 17 Jan 2017 at 10:09

I'll post some HTPC related info in a day or so. Any requests?

dl8860 · 17 Jan 2017 at 10:46

Bought one of these the other day just before they sold out (as I thought they would). Going to install either tonight or tomorrow, will be a nice upgrade from my athlon ii

Boomstick777 · 17 Jan 2017 at 11:14

dl8860 said:
Bought one of these the other day just before they sold out (as I thought they would). Going to install either tonight or tomorrow, will be a nice upgrade from my athlon ii

Lucky you got one early, these are really popular it seems. Sold out everywhere.

Will be huge upgrade from your current chip. Such a bargain lol.

bakes0310 · 17 Jan 2017 at 11:39

Can these be overclocked at all as they aint a k series?

mr.bond · 17 Jan 2017 at 12:36

Will this run on the h110 motherboards?

Disco_P · 17 Jan 2017 at 12:39

mr.bond said:
Will this run on the h110 motherboards?

Probably. You'd need a compatible bios to be installed in the board. Check the manufacturer to ensure one is available and ask the retailer if the bios is/can be updated.

mr.bond · 17 Jan 2017 at 12:52

Hmm my 10 year c2duo could do with an uograde!

RavenXXX2 · 17 Jan 2017 at 12:56

mr.bond said:
Hmm my 10 year c2duo could do with an uograde!

LGA775 won't run kabylake.

mr.bond · 17 Jan 2017 at 12:57

I know

full system build on a budget tight budget would be great though.

RavenXXX2 · 17 Jan 2017 at 13:08

lol, yeah massive upgrade.

Yutang13 · 17 Jan 2017 at 13:32

bakes0310 said:
Can these be overclocked at all as they aint a k series?

Well the base clock can always be changed. If you have the right board then yeah. I am intrigued how far these would go...

SupraWez · 17 Jan 2017 at 13:37

I am gonna build a new rig just for VR, these looking well priced but waiting to see what the new AMD perform like too.

Goody_GTI · 17 Jan 2017 at 14:02

Hmmm interesting...

May look to invest, seems a good budget upgrade

Emlyn_Dewar · 17 Jan 2017 at 14:07

I'd be pretty interested to know how this handles Dolphin 5.0/other emulators.
Could be a great move from my AMD for low power emulator box.

Terrorfirmer · 17 Jan 2017 at 14:26

It would be a titanic upgrade on that A10-7850K which is really poor compared to i3/i5 processors, and the G4560 is basically a very slightly slower i3-6100.

Personally I think it's the best thing to happen CPU's in years, there's not been a CPU this powerful in this price range for a really long time. The other options have been the older Pentium lines (not really good for gaming due to lack of HT) or AMD's 760/860K (more stable than the Pentium but nonetheless pretty poor for gaming also due to low performance)

Pair this sucker with an GTX1050 and you have a killer gaming PC for a very low price.

Terrorfirmer · 17 Jan 2017 at 14:28

Am I reading that right, you have an RX480 paired with an A10-7850K? Man, that is a major, major bottleneck! (unless you're gaming at 4k30fps to max GPU usage)

Emlyn_Dewar · 17 Jan 2017 at 14:34

My signature is outdated and will never be changed.

PC uses a 6 core IB-E Xeon in my old P9X79 board now.
I bought the RX480 at the time, as it was a great price on Members Market. The 7850k was doing alright with it on the Vive (just).

The 7850k is relegated to emulator/messing about.

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