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Supreme [H]ardness
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Yep---What he said..I wouldn't even recommend dual core to mom or pop these days...but whatever floats your boat
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Probably you haven't played Dragon Age Inquisition right? or Hitman Absolution? Watch Dogs? or Crysis 3? or Far Cry 3/4? or GTA V? or Shadow of Mordor? or Fallout 4? or The Witcher 3? and a big large list of games..
Probably you haven't played Dragon Age Inquisition right? or Hitman Absolution? Watch Dogs? or Crysis 3? or Far Cry 3/4? or GTA V? or Shadow of Mordor? or Fallout 4? or The Witcher 3? and a big large list of games..
Man, Dual core sucks for anything more than regular office work, you can say whatever about FramePerSeconds but no about FrameTimes which its the big hurt in Dual Cores, man you won't even be able to launch Far Cry 4. yes, the G3258 its fas for everyday usage but no for really gaming.. I really don't understand why you are so amazed with that chip, why become so fanboy and G3258 defender, have you used any true recent intel quad core chip? I have built around 30+ machines for clients with Pentium Dual Core chips, tested everyone of them, probably I know isn't much what you can do with that oldie GTX 550TI, but any modern GPU even in mid range tiers are seriously bottlenecked in most (if not all) recent and modern games even at 1080P.. the fact that you are way GPU bottlenecked before CPU bottleneck doesn't mean that it will be the same experience with any other guy with a more recent or powerful GPU than what you are using.
how the heck can I explain that? really? that's easy called 6 generational jumps from Kentsfield up to Haswell which include Nehalem as a major jump from "Core 2", and Sandy Bridge as an even major architectural jump. (Kentsfield, Penryn, Nehalem, Westmere, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell)
So are you really being serious comparing a decade old semi-quad(2+2) Q6600 Kentsfield with a newer Haswell Pentium G3258?? great job man, a dual core chip with 2 powerful cores performing better than an old "semi-quadcore" with 2+2 weak cores...
Why not compare that G3258 with on-par generational quad cores, or even dual core + Hyper threading?.. you wanna see it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6LUufXCPDM
Again, I know and I understand, you are GPU limited, and you will be that way before reach what the G3258 can do even at stock.. but with a stronger GPU you would not be saying the same things and wonderful things about that G3258 as you will be in the same situation even with the strongest CPU in the market right now.
Originally my G3258 was a placeholder for the 5670 or 5770. Those seem to be a limit release and won't ever hit in mass anymore.
You can pick up a 2670 V1, socket 2011, for a hundred bucks. Slap two of them in a 2P system and it would be even better!