Quote:Are you trolling? That CPU can't beat the Phenom II X4 965, period. I think you have too high hopes for Pentium processors. You know the G860 is being compared to the Phenom II X4 840, which is A lower end chip than the 965?
No he's not. Even a pentium G860 is faster than anything AMD has in MOST software (since most software does not achieve good load balancing with many threads). Only software that is heavily multithreaded and achieves good load balancing across most of the threads will run faster on a phenom II X4. And it's way faster than anything amd has at running dolphin.
Quote:Edit: Also the newest games really make use of the Extra cores on the 965, G860 would struggle
Go look at some game benchmarks. A phenom II X4 is SLIGHTLY faster in some rts and fps games and that's about it. With both cores at full load on a pentium G860 performance is equal to a phenom II X3 with all 3 cores at full load. Only software that puts high or full load on all 4 cores will benefit from a phenom II X4, and there aren't many games that can do that. Even then the difference is small.
As for overclocking, anything above 4.0GHz will require a very significant voltage bump to remain stable and is not advised for long term use regardless of whether you can keep it cool enough.
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-Mark Antony