intel G645 Processor

[MonKENy]

whats the story on them? For a dell pre built for $289 yay or nay?

 

[lyssword]

this? should be pretty nice, in games it will probably match (or beat) your 965(stock).

I have a 2.6 version of this and its plenty fast for most everything.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

They occasionally have i3 s&d dells at the outlet sometimes for the SAME price.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

It's a budget SB processor. Whether that's a deal or not depends entirely on the details and what you're going to do with it.

 

[MonKENy]

yeah they have an i3 for 379 and i5 for like 480 so not bad on dells site

 

[NTMBK]

this? should be pretty nice, in games it will probably match (or beat) your 965(stock).

I have a 2.6 version of this and its plenty fast for most everything.

The Sandy Bridge Pentiums lose on gaming benchmarks to the 965 most of the time: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/102?vs=405 And that's without an overclock. And Techreport's frame latency tests show that they are a stuttering mess on a modern, multithreaded game engine. Plus the 965 should OC nicely.

Don't get the Pentium to replace that 965.

 

[Magic Carpet]

this? should be pretty nice, in games it will probably match (or beat) your 965(stock).

I have a 2.6 version of this and its plenty fast for most everything.

You must be insane to make such recommendation, unless you're the type that constantly watches the power meter and / or plays PacMan. I have the newer Ivy Bridge model, and 965 absolutely destroys it in modern games. The dual-core only has some advantage (and that's only about 25% not 250%) in older (1-2 thread) games. Both stock, once overclocked, 965 pulls ahead even more. i3-3220 is my recommended minimum for Intel platforms.

 

[ElFenix]

The Sandy Bridge Pentiums lose on gaming benchmarks to the 965 most of the time: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/102?vs=405 And that's without an overclock. And Techreport's frame latency tests show that they are a stuttering mess on a modern, multithreaded game engine. Plus the 965 should OC nicely.

Don't get the Pentium to replace that 965.

that seems like a very strange result

i wonder if it has to do with being the only pure dual core processor on the chart?

 

[NTMBK]

that seems like a very strange result

i wonder if it has to do with being the only pure dual core processor on the chart?

It definitely is. Compare with the i3-3225 on there- not far removed in pure clock speed, but it has 4 threads instead of 2. Modern games engines like Frostbite 2 throw around a lot of threads, and only having 2 hardware threads means a lot of context switching. Bad times.

 

[lyssword]

well I know about battlefield being unplayable on dualcore, I don't play that..

 

[NTMBK]

well I know about battlefield being unplayable on dualcore, I don't play that..

More and more games are going to be like that. Both consoles coming out have 8 equally strong cores (unlike the PS3 with one strong and 6 glorified DSPs), so game engine multithreading is going to become more prevalent and more effective. EA have committed to lots of their franchises using Frostbite 2, the Battlefield 3 engine- Need for Speed, Command and Conquer, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Medal of Honour, and of course Battlefield. This engine was deliberately built to be their next-gen engine, and other companies will be making similar moves. Dual thread processors aren't going to cut it with the next wave of games.