You'd have to send it off to the manufacturer or perhaps pay a local business to do it for you, assuming they have a Skylake CPU lying around.
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** Intel Pentium G4560: Bang For Buck Gaming **
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You'd have to send it off to the manufacturer or perhaps pay a local business to do it for you, assuming they have a Skylake CPU lying around.
Resorting to putting words in mouth, always a sign things are about to go down hill, eh.
Erm, where did I put words in your mouth?
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bobbarley;30479102 said:
buy a compatible cpu then return it after flashing (which would be a **** move but plenty people do it) or ask the shop your buying if they can flash it before sending it to you by sending them an email (this would be my preferred way of doing it) even say you will give them an extra £5-£10 for their time to do this and test it working, etc.
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What is happening in here lol.
Can speak from first hand experience, having run the all the hardware you can think of.
This chip is absolutely capable of great gaming experience. I run all my games at 1080P / 1440P with this chip and a GTX 780. Not targeting 30fps either xD
It's an absolute bargain. Paired with a GTX 1060 or maybe an older used GPU with similar performance, and you get massive bang for your buck.
Can speak from first hand experience, having run the all the hardware you can think of.
This chip is absolutely capable of great gaming experience. I run all my games at 1080P / 1440P with this chip and a GTX 780. Not targeting 30fps either xD
It's an absolute bargain. Paired with a GTX 1060 or maybe an older used GPU with similar performance, and you get massive bang for your buck.
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Boomstick777;30484297 said:
With that in mind, maybe you can share some frame-time data from Hitman or Rome Total War?
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easyrider;30487814 said:
No point explaining it again, that is why I've asked the above. That's the thing about numbers, they don't lie. These dips may come in droves (they do in the aforementioned titles, as I've tested it. But I wouldn't want to be accused of cherry picking...)
Did you try 4k 60 like vid below?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2RsqhxYVJ0&list=PLY9cZ8nX4xmmgLLhza1mUq2EdQKYc5Zil&index=13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2RsqhxYVJ0&list=PLY9cZ8nX4xmmgLLhza1mUq2EdQKYc5Zil&index=13
I was interested to see if these £55 Pentiums could cut the mustard so to speak so built a little test bed for peanuts.
G4560 New
2nd hand Gigabyte H110M-H DDR3
2nd hand MSI GTX 770
2 x 4GB sticks of 1.35v Corsair vengence.
That lot comes in at well under £200.
I only play at 1080 but enjoy my battlefield titles, especially BF3 and BF1.
In the past I have tried to play BF3 with a i3 2100 and it hasn't been enough, lots of slow down and huge drops in GPU usage and FPS on the larger maps.
Not the case with the G4560, playing BF1 60 player maps it sails around, rarely going below 50FPS and rarely failing to keep the 770 GTX fueled and at full usage. The odd blip when it gets very very busy but that's the nature of playing exclusively on such big maps.
Far Cry 3 was also tested, no issues there either for the 770 GTX to stretch its legs.
It is unreal value for money.
G4560 New
2nd hand Gigabyte H110M-H DDR3
2nd hand MSI GTX 770
2 x 4GB sticks of 1.35v Corsair vengence.
That lot comes in at well under £200.
I only play at 1080 but enjoy my battlefield titles, especially BF3 and BF1.
In the past I have tried to play BF3 with a i3 2100 and it hasn't been enough, lots of slow down and huge drops in GPU usage and FPS on the larger maps.
Not the case with the G4560, playing BF1 60 player maps it sails around, rarely going below 50FPS and rarely failing to keep the 770 GTX fueled and at full usage. The odd blip when it gets very very busy but that's the nature of playing exclusively on such big maps.
Far Cry 3 was also tested, no issues there either for the 770 GTX to stretch its legs.
It is unreal value for money.
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Dips, 50 FPS, gets tired when there's a lot going on-on screen.
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dl8860;30499345 said:
Well the idea if targeting a frame rate is to keep to it. I won't get any dips in BF1 targeting 100 frames on my system, but then I paid for the privilege.
The consensus is much like Digital Foundry says. Great value, but if you want to enjoy 60 fps, which is what the PC scene is representative of; the i5 makes much more sense.
Just my opinion. Others are less susceptible to the latency which these things can bring.