Some thoughts on Kaby Lake Pentium
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Some thoughts on Kaby Lake Pentium
ComputerBase took a look at the new Kaby Lake based Pentiums last week. Wow. It's a desktop i3 with the Pentium name tacked on. This must be Intel's low end early counter for AMD Zen...erm..Ryzen. Effectively an i3 for $65-85.
Nice CPU for a budget gaming build.
Nice CPU for a budget gaming build.
Re: Some thoughts on Kaby Lake Pentium
The performance seems nothing short of astonishing at that price!
For a gaming computer there must be a disclaimer though:
Some new games, like Forza Horizon 3, will simply refuse to run unless you have an "approved" CPU (meaning newish Core i5 or better). So these new Pentiums will work fine as long as the games accept them at all.
For a gaming computer there must be a disclaimer though:
Some new games, like Forza Horizon 3, will simply refuse to run unless you have an "approved" CPU (meaning newish Core i5 or better). So these new Pentiums will work fine as long as the games accept them at all.
Re: Some thoughts on Kaby Lake Pentium
Personally im disapointed on Kaby Lake, as i have been with the past 6 gens of intel, no real gains, just marginal. Seems next gen we might get an i7 six core.... hope we dont get another quad, hope also that AMD Rezen does good and puts some pressure to intel.
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Re: Some thoughts on Kaby Lake Pentium
Abula wrote:Personally im disapointed on Kaby Lake
About 25% over Sandy, with reference to IPC: 5% gain for each year after 2011, or if you rather 5% for each subsequent generation... yes, underwhelming (but the IGP is far better!).
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True for Core i7 running multithreaded applications.quest_for_silence wrote:About 25% over Sandy, with reference to IPC...
In single thread the difference in IPC is more like 0%. Any difference there shown in tests can be related to the difference in RAM performance.
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Re: Some thoughts on Kaby Lake Pentium
Is there a list of such games available?Olle P wrote:For a gaming computer there must be a disclaimer though:
Some new games, like Forza Horizon 3, will simply refuse to run unless you have an "approved" CPU (meaning newish Core i5 or better). So these new Pentiums will work fine as long as the games accept them at all.
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First, Forza 3 does actually play with a dual core Intel CPU. Here's a benchmarking thread with an i3 in it.
As for games that will fail to load unless you meet the min performance specs with a newish CPU and GPU, I haven't come across one. Sure, they might exclude an older CPU because it fails to have a current instruction set or processing capability or a GPU for the lack of DX-whatever, other than that it'll load the game - maybe at crappy stuttery slideshow like framerates, but it'll load.
That said, it's always worthwhile to look at the min specs and review benchmarks b4 getting a game.
As for games that will fail to load unless you meet the min performance specs with a newish CPU and GPU, I haven't come across one. Sure, they might exclude an older CPU because it fails to have a current instruction set or processing capability or a GPU for the lack of DX-whatever, other than that it'll load the game - maybe at crappy stuttery slideshow like framerates, but it'll load.
That said, it's always worthwhile to look at the min specs and review benchmarks b4 getting a game.
Re: Some thoughts on Kaby Lake Pentium
Well, it refused to start with an Ivy Bridge Core i5.CA_Steve wrote:First, Forza 3 does actually play with a dual core Intel CPU. ...