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Review on Intel Pentium Processor G3220 BX80646G3220 by Adam Kotowski ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Good quality product, the price is commensurate with the quality.

The Intel Pentium G family of processors for the s1150 socket is, among all recent CPUs, the one with the best price-to-performance ratio. At first, I was surprised by the performance of such a cheap processor, but Intel has shown time and time again that it is serious about becoming the market leader in every possible area. And I showed myself and my friends that you can put up an affordable GAMING PC with room for growth for under $350.

Pros
  • Only they, benefits, and comprises make up this processor! Cost-effective and low-priced The stock cooler kept it at 39–40 degrees Fahrenheit after several hours of heavy use (I switched to Arctic Cooling thermal paste, but if that's too much bother for you, I wouldn't recommend it). Compatible with low-income gamers (like myself), the combination of a GTX650 and 4GB of RAM ensures smooth gameplay in all recent shooters at 720p resolution and above 30 frames per second. The integrated graphics are on par with those of the GeForce GT610, so it can run most modern games, but at reduced or medium quality. The biggest selling point for me was that I could easily upgrade the system by swapping in a new Intel Core i3 or i5 Haswell processor.
Cons
  • - You can't buy them for that much! (but some nerds could consider the nearly zero overclocking potential a drawback.)