Overwatch Budget CPU
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HritabanS_2661
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No! The intel q6600 is far outdated to run Overwatch even in lowest setting. Sorry to upset you mate, but it is the fact. You'll at least need a cpu with two physical cores and 4 thread (though the q6600 is a quad core chip, but it is much older and nowadays a pentium can beat it by a large margin), like the 6th gen skylake Intel i3 6100 or similarly AMD's FX 6300 ( 3 cores, 6 modules/threads). Anything below that will struggle to run most games at decent settings! Though if you're planning to buy one right now, I would suggest you to go with the intel i3 6100. In terms of pure gaming performance and modern day tasks like video playback, web surfing or even some light video editing/rendering the i3 6100 is far more better. It has a higher clock speed and is much more newer. That being said, you're also expanding your future upgradability path if you're going with Skylake+Z170. Or if you still wanna go with the AMD, then I would suggest you to wait for a couple of months and then buy a AMD ZEN chip.
Ecky
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Considering Zen will only be releasing (afaik) in 8c/16t, it's not likely to be "cheap".
OP, check out TechSpot's review: http://www.techspot.com/review/1180-overwatch-benchmarks/page5.html
Basically a Core i3 is the minimum for the game, and ideally you'd have an i3 6100. AMD's quad cores and Intel's Pentium dual cores will have noticeable dips in framerate.
OP, check out TechSpot's review: http://www.techspot.com/review/1180-overwatch-benchmarks/page5.html
Basically a Core i3 is the minimum for the game, and ideally you'd have an i3 6100. AMD's quad cores and Intel's Pentium dual cores will have noticeable dips in framerate.
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