IS CORE 2 QUAD BETTER THAN CORE i3 FOR GAMING?

[GOOD_GUY]

Hey people, today i wanted to buy a core i3 pc. My friend told me not to buy corei3 as its dual processor.
he said core i3 = dualcore and core2quad = corei5

I am thinking which to buy, because i need it for HIGH GRAPHIC GAMES. I'll add Nvidia Gefore GTx630 2 GB.
6 GB RAM.

suggesst me what to do, which processor to buy which is good for gaming??

 

[Diganta Das]

That Gpu is not gud enough for i5... But i3 4th gen is better than Core 2 quad.. its not always about the cores, there are a lot of other factors.

 

[GOOD_GUY]

okay thanks

 

[CGurrell]

have a look at the new pentium anniversary edition, it's an LGA 1150 CPU, can be overclocked to heck and it very cheap, meaning you could spend more elsewhere in your PC

 

[Danimal1q2w3]

The a10s are crap for gaming. Had an overclocked a10 5800k and it was just bad

 

[whale123]

i dont know google it

 

[oxiide]

A modern i3 will smoke any Core 2 Quad as far as I'm aware. The i3's got two physical cores, but its also got Hyperthreading which adds two "logical" cores. Its somewhere between a true dual-core and a true quad-core chip of the same generation. Per-core performance of a Haswell-based Core i3 is about 4-5 years ahead of any Core 2 Quad.

The GT 630 isn't really suited to anything more than giving you a place to plug in a monitor. Its really not fit for gaming. Look at the Tom's Hardware graphics card buyer's guide.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html