What is the best value gaming CPU?

1Reshiram12

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What CPU has the best performance for gaming at the lowest price? Right now I'm leaning towards the Pentium G3258 because it seems to have really good single thread performance for 70$ but I wanted to see if anyone else knows a CPU that has a better gaming to price value.
 
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The technology itself dosent do anything, its the fact most games need 4 threads so the pentium would be lacking.
A comparison processor would be the 860k, but it has a lower ipc.

Samer1970

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yes they help in games that needs 4 threads ...
 
HT won't "help" gaming, but it prevents a problem from not having 4 cores if a game demands 4 cores.

The i3 is typically clocked really high as well compared to an i5 (at base clocks) so it performs the same in all desktop tasks if not better, and it shouldn't be a huge limited factor for games.

The Pentium g3258 is a popular dual core without HT, and it has problems when games start to demand more than 2 threads because it only has 2 threads available, and it's also nowhere near as fast as an i3.

The i3 is the best bang for your buck CPU.