officermartinez
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I don't see much info on the Intel G860 but I've recently acquired one. I've "donated" this processor to my son and he is really excited to be moving to a 32nm processor. He doesn't make much money at all but after "donating" a few dollars to him (hahaha), he bought an Asrock Z68 board. Obviously, he is not going to be overclocking the G860 but he is going to be running SLI graphic cards. He is strictly a gamer (and casual internet surfer). I figured this processor would fit the bill for what he does. After comparing it to a Core i3 2100, the only real differences I can see are:
G860 = 3.0ghz
Core i3 2100 = 3.1ghz
G860 = No hyperthreading
Core i3 2100 = Hyperthreading
G860 = Instruction set SSE 4.1 / 4.2
Core i3 2100 = Instruction set SSE4.1 / 4.2 / AVX
Other than that, they have the same cache, same number of cores, same thermals, same memory bandwidth and both of them are obviously 32nm processors. I know the 2100 has better on die HD graphics but for a gamer who is using dedicated video cards, that should have no impact. His Z68 board should arrive in a few days and I just don't want him disappointed. He plays some game called Rift. I know NOTHING about it other than its a MMORPG game (like World of Warcraft).
He is going from a 65nm Conroe 2.4ghz processor, 2gb's of DDR2 800 ram and a Socket 775 board.. He is getting the G860 32nm 3.0ghz processor, 8gb's of DDR3 1600 ram and the Asrock Z68 board.
I will be re-using his Western Digital Black Edition 1TB HDD and his XFX Black Edition SLI'd 216 core GTX 260's. After digging around for any info that I could find on the G860, I ran into this chart. Pretty interesting where the G860 is rated:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+G860+%40+3.00GHz
*EDIT* - Just ran the cpubenchmark for this G860 processor and scored a 3211. Pretty darn good score for a processor that cost under $100 bux!
G860 = 3.0ghz
Core i3 2100 = 3.1ghz
G860 = No hyperthreading
Core i3 2100 = Hyperthreading
G860 = Instruction set SSE 4.1 / 4.2
Core i3 2100 = Instruction set SSE4.1 / 4.2 / AVX
Other than that, they have the same cache, same number of cores, same thermals, same memory bandwidth and both of them are obviously 32nm processors. I know the 2100 has better on die HD graphics but for a gamer who is using dedicated video cards, that should have no impact. His Z68 board should arrive in a few days and I just don't want him disappointed. He plays some game called Rift. I know NOTHING about it other than its a MMORPG game (like World of Warcraft).
He is going from a 65nm Conroe 2.4ghz processor, 2gb's of DDR2 800 ram and a Socket 775 board.. He is getting the G860 32nm 3.0ghz processor, 8gb's of DDR3 1600 ram and the Asrock Z68 board.
I will be re-using his Western Digital Black Edition 1TB HDD and his XFX Black Edition SLI'd 216 core GTX 260's. After digging around for any info that I could find on the G860, I ran into this chart. Pretty interesting where the G860 is rated:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+G860+%40+3.00GHz
*EDIT* - Just ran the cpubenchmark for this G860 processor and scored a 3211. Pretty darn good score for a processor that cost under $100 bux!
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