Best Gaming CPU for under $150

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Hi,

I'm going to be building my first PC this year, and I'm on a fairly tight budget. I need a CPU for under $150, and I'm not sure what to go for. My best option is probably going with an AMD chip, but I'm not completely sure how they fair against Intel CPUs. I wont be building it until I go to the US (I'm from Ireland), if there will be anything newer out by then.

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Definitely. Software is oblivious, and only cares how many threads are available to split up work, so it acts just like a quad core.

Also, if you can get one of the Asrock Z170 motherboards, you can overclock the i3-6100 to ~4.5GHz pretty easily. If you can only afford a budget board, it will still be great at stock settings. I run mine stock and play BF4 64-player games at ~90 fps.

EDIT: As you can see here with an i3-4170 (stock 3.7GHz), the i3-6100 will be quite capable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvHtRFWdww
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Regarding the Intel i3-6100, everything looks good, but is 2 cores and 4 threads good enough for most modern games?
 
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Definitely. Software is oblivious, and only cares how many threads are available to split up work, so it acts just like a quad core.

Also, if you can get one of the Asrock Z170 motherboards, you can overclock the i3-6100 to ~4.5GHz pretty easily. If you can only afford a budget board, it will still be great at stock settings. I run mine stock and play BF4 64-player games at ~90 fps.

EDIT: As you can see here with an i3-4170 (stock 3.7GHz), the i3-6100 will be quite capable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvHtRFWdww
 
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i3 4170 for the cheap.

i3 6100 performs on par with sandy bridge i5 in games.

Or save 25$ and pick up an i5 4460.

AMD side of things, 6300 for 100$. performs on par with i3 in optimized games. But most games out there single thread performance is king.
 
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