A tad less GHz...
I don't know much though. Hence the post.
Why do you need all that CPU power? What are you going to do with it? Now I'm guessing you want to play games so I know exactly what you will do with all that GPU power.
Games. The playstation just isn't doing it for me anymore. I haven't had a good computer since my old xps and want to get back into it while not have to upgrade again right away. Think this one is worth it/will get what I want done?
well that second one would do it, shit my rig before my current one was 8 years old with only a graphics card upgrade and it could handle fallout 4 max settings. Processing power wise not much is different with my new rig and I pulled the graphics card out of the old one to put in this one.
The more powerful GPU more than compensates for the lower performing CPU.
Think its too much for a casual computer person?
For a shitpost machine? Waaaaaay too much. I have a FX8300 with 8G ram and my graphics card is some ancient radeon. It's more thanI need to browse, encode flacs to mp3 and occasionally deal with pictures.
I want it to handle any game I throw at it at maxed out specs (I'd like to get back into pc gaming). I want it to last a while before I have to upgrade again.
I ask anyone with more experience to correct me, but I think for games it's graphics board first, then single thread/memory speed, then core count. Of course, an 1 core 2 threads processor is not enough, but 4 cores/8 threads with fast single thread performance and fast memory together witha faster graphics card looks better to me than more threads/slower graphics card. Idk if games are taking full advantage of more cores. You can check overall processor performance in cpubenchmark.net.
I'm not a game guy, so listen to other people before you decide.
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