Old Quad core Vs a newer dual core

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ViperRSA

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Hi,
I have a bit of a weird situation that I need help with. I currently have a really old Q8300 quad core intel processor, and I would like to know if upgrading to something like a 4th gen pentium or celeron dual core (at a much higher clock speed though) will yeild better or worse performance in terms of gaming.

Note that I'm only interested in the performance of the cpu, not the advantages of a newer platform etc.

thanks
 
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synphul
Depending on the game you might be better off with an i3 if possible. It's still only dual core but has hyper threading which helps in games with higher threads. In games that are largely single core or run heavily on one or two threads the pentium (4th gen like a g3258) will outperform an old quad core like the q8400. The pentium has twice the single core performance. Really though for newer games spending a little extra for the ht of an i3 if sticking to a dual core cpu would be the better option if you can. Dual core cpu's are somewhat limited in modern games.
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herrwizo

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I used to own Core 2 Quad Q9550, which is faster than Q8300, and just for fun used Pentium G3258 (stock clocks at first). It absolutely demolished old quad core, framerates nearly doubled in most games. That was approximately a year ago.

However, I am not quite sure that this still applies today, games need more than 2 threads and a pure dual core would not be enough. If I were in your position, I'd go for Pentium G4560, which is basically a Core i3 (2 cores + hyperthreading) without AVX instructions (used mostly for video transcoding, basically irrelevant for gaming).

The "catch" here is that you either need a 200 series motherboard (expensive), or a skylake motherboard with latest BIOS (cheap, but you need to make sure it has the latest BIOS, or have the previous owner update it if buying second-hand).
 
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synphul

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Depending on the game you might be better off with an i3 if possible. It's still only dual core but has hyper threading which helps in games with higher threads. In games that are largely single core or run heavily on one or two threads the pentium (4th gen like a g3258) will outperform an old quad core like the q8400. The pentium has twice the single core performance. Really though for newer games spending a little extra for the ht of an i3 if sticking to a dual core cpu would be the better option if you can. Dual core cpu's are somewhat limited in modern games.
 
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