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** Intel Pentium G4560: Bang For Buck Gaming **

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Reckon this could be cooled passively in an HTPC with an undervolt if necessary? My Q6600 is running too hot and loud in my current HTPC.
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Yep. I'm using a Coolermaster TX3 Evo heatsink (no fans), with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut TIM. I have one 200mm fan (800rpm, 13dBA, very quiet) at the front of the case. PSU is upside down and the fan exhausts through a vent in the bottom of the case. I've undervolted by 0.1v. Max temp in RealBench stress test is 68c.
 
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dl8860 said:
So lots of places are telling me know, but reckon I could play Forza 3 with my G4560, 2GB HD6950 and 8GB RAM? Obvs don't mind scaling the graphics down a little bit
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At 720p and low settings, you could possibly hit 60fps

Forza Horizon 3 is a seriously demanding game
 
Got mine today from Ocers

Going to try and update an Asus H110 and maybe match it with a 1050 to use as a htpc/steam machine
 
this looks like a VERY interesting cpu, out of interest what would you guys say is the best graphics card to pair this little chip with without to much "bottleneck"? from both NVidia and amd, gtx 1060 and rx 470?
 

Hardware Unboxed tested Pentium G4560 against i3 7350K, i5 7600K and i7 6700K with GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1060, GTX 1080 in games benchmarks ran at both 1080p and 1440p. Amazing G4560 can matched 6700K performance in nearly all games with maxed out graphics at 1440p on all three GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1060 and GTX 1080. :eek:

Shame they did not have GTX 1070 in tests so G4560 should handle GTX 1070 fine in all games benchmarks up to 1440p with maxed out graphics. :D
 
The review results shouldn't be a surprise. The i3 6100 did do the same last year. Its a 2c4t with a 200MHz advantage over the G4560 (for £30 extra ofc).
 
Wow that's a seriously interesting comparison video, not just for seeing how the G4560 compares to i3 5 and 7, but for which games are CPU intensive and whether to put more ££ towards GPU or CPU.

Almost the most interesting thing was that the G4560 gave a better experience using the 1060 than the 1080, because there was less fluctuation in FPS.

And very encouraging that the average MINIMUM frame rate among only CPU intensive games at 1440p was 40 FPS for the G4560 compared to 47 FPS on the i7-6700k.
So unless you are going to buy a 1080, the G4560 offers astonishingly good performance pound for pound.

As said above, a shame he didn't test a 1070 but you can't have it all.
I might be off to buy a GTX 1060 and a 1440p monitor...
 
dl8860 said:
Wow that's a seriously interesting comparison video, not just for seeing how the G4560 compares to i3 5 and 7, but for which games are CPU intensive and whether to put more ££ towards GPU or CPU.

Almost the most interesting thing was that the G4560 gave a better experience using the 1060 than the 1080, because there was less fluctuation in FPS.

And very encouraging that the average MINIMUM frame rate among only CPU intensive games at 1440p was 40 FPS for the G4560 compared to 47 FPS on the i7-6700k.
So unless you are going to buy a 1080, the G4560 offers astonishingly good performance pound for pound.

As said above, a shame he didn't test a 1070 but you can't have it all.
I might be off to buy a GTX 1060 and a 1440p monitor...
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Yeah was a good video, seems for budget builders a Pentium kaby lake + GTX 1050 Ti / RX 470 is the sweet spot.

Interesting though that even with higher end GPU the Pentium still puts out a good showing just with lower minimums. Really is a great CPU for the money.

I love my lil Pentium xD runs great with GTX 780. Gonna hang onto this for a while me thinks. See where the CPU landscape is after Ryzen launches.
 
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dl8860 said:
Wow that's a seriously interesting comparison video, not just for seeing how the G4560 compares to i3 5 and 7, but for which games are CPU intensive and whether to put more ££ towards GPU or CPU.

Almost the most interesting thing was that the G4560 gave a better experience using the 1060 than the 1080, because there was less fluctuation in FPS.

And very encouraging that the average MINIMUM frame rate among only CPU intensive games at 1440p was 40 FPS for the G4560 compared to 47 FPS on the i7-6700k.
So unless you are going to buy a 1080, the G4560 offers astonishingly good performance pound for pound.

As said above, a shame he didn't test a 1070 but you can't have it all.
I might be off to buy a GTX 1060 and a 1440p monitor...
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Yep, but does it show that the Pentium is comparatively great value or that the i7s are comparatively crap value for gaming? :p
 
z10m said:
I'm running an overclocked RX 480 with i7 4790 on a 350W Superflower PSU without any problems.
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interesting

is there a place you can find out power requirements of each component?

i plan on having this cpu with a high end motherboard so i have enough pci-e ports for a NVME, NIC card, possible GPU in future. lots of hard drives.

I was thinking of getting a 550W PSU but if your running on a 350W I might just go for 450W to be safe.

Surely with 350W you must be running quite close to its max?
 
What is the cheapest video card you can get away with when using this cpu ?

The reason i ask is i was going to buy my son the nintendo switch but now im wondering if to just upgrade is pc instead.
 
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