Intel Celeron G1840 good for low-end gaming?

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I've recently managed to successfully build my budget office/light gaming PC and it works quite well. In fact, I even tried out games like Race Driver Grid, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, and so forth. All of them runs surprisingly well on medium-high video settings/low anti-aliasing at 1680x1050/60+ frames-per-second. Depending on the specs and/or games you plan on playing, do you think the Celeron G1840 is good enough for games that aren't very demanding or games that are very well optimized even on low-end systems?

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CPU: Intel Celeron G1840 2.8GHz Dual-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $74.99)
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card (Purchased For $0.00)
Power Supply: Antec 450W ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0 DVD/CD Writer (Purchased For $0.00)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN721N 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wi-Fi Adapter (Purchased For $0.00)
Other: HP Pavillion Old MicroATX Case (Purchased)
Total: $74.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I see. The latest game that I ran on the system was Splinter Cell Blacklist (which came out in 2013) and it ran quite decently on medium-highish video settings at around 55-70 fps. For now, it will run some games prior to 2014-2015 just fine without having to extremely lower resolution and/or video settings.

for a very low budget AMD would be better, but the G180 should be ok for the GPU you have
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Thanks. I do plan on upgrading the CPU to a Core i5-44460 some time soon later this year if necessary. The GPU will work for now though.


 
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Thanks. I've done a lot of benchmarking and the latest one that I've tested was Call of Duty Black Ops 2. I had the video settings set to mostly high settings at 1680x1050/2x MSAA and the frames-per-second never dropped below 60. On average, it was about 80fps. All thanks to the video card as well. :)

For some low-end budget gaming, the Celeron G1840 isn't too bad and it performs really good for the price of $40 US or $56 CDN.
 
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