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Intel Pentium G620 vs Core i3 2100?

Hi I currently have a budget gaming rig with an Intel Pentium G620. It can play games with out and problems as long as I don't jack up the settings too high. My graphics card is a Nvidia GT545. I also have 4 gigs of Kingston HyperX DDR3 1333. So How much of an improvement would I see if I upgraded to a i3 2100? Also does Hyper threading work in games?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Intel Pentium G620 @ 2.60GHz ranked # 329 in overall CPU benchmark :

    link : http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pent...

    Core i3 2100 ranked # 172 :

    link : http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core...

    For your first question, YES you will notice a considerable increase in performance when you change to an I3-2100 but in gaming, it is still the graphics card that has the last say. since all games are 75% GPU dependent thus it is very impt.

    No games uses hyperthreading, thus is useless in gaming.

    your GeForce GT 545 is still a good mid range card that can let you play mst games in medium settings and some on low settings depending on your intended resolution. Here is a link to your video card's benchmark: ranked #79

    http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeFo...

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Intel Pentium G620

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Why are you purely searching at those 2 processors? what's your fee on a Pentium G860 (Sandy Bridge 3.0 GHz)? you should also imagine about which video games you want to run. The video games that are the most CPU-huge, and that are multithreaded in this type of way that they could take complete income of quad-cores --GTA4, COD4, ARMA2, etc. --are an identical video games which could get the most take advantage of creating use of a center-i3 with Hyper-Threading. In different words, if it really is CPU-huge recreation you should likely use a quad-center with, you should a minimum of get the middle-i3.

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