1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,440 we always want faster and more powerful components and these days people are 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:10,320 starting to focus on other things as well like power consumption and thermal 3 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:15,200 output but what about the age-old how many cores do I need for modern gaming 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:19,720 question has the landscape changed or is it still quad cores for life like it was 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:24,480 for pretty much a long time what about the Pentium g3258 dual core that made a 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:28,800 big splash a while back is that processor blazing fast overclock speeds 7 00:00:26,599 --> 00:00:32,320 and affordable price point viable in today's market stay tuned to find out 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:38,450 and stay subscribed for lonus Tech tips for more awesome technology 9 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:49,559 videos The Cooler Master Nova touch tkl utilizes genuine toer hybrid capacitive 10 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:53,960 switches and is now available at a more affordable price click now to learn more 11 00:00:52,559 --> 00:00:59,440 the test bench we used to get our numbers is rocking an Intel 5960x 12 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:05,199 overclocked just a bit to 3.2 GHz with 32 gigs of ddr4 RAM running at 3,000 MHz 13 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:08,840 it's also sporting a windforce GTX 980 from Gigabyte running at stock and we 14 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:12,960 went a little bit crazy and started disabling cores and hyperthreading and 15 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:16,759 to simulate various CPUs that are available for purchase today for testing 16 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:20,400 we chose to use a dual core without hyperthreading dual core with hyperthreading quad core without 17 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:25,400 hyperthreading quad core with hyperthreading hex core with hyperthreading and octacore with 18 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:29,920 hyperthreading to round out our test Suite all right now for the meat and 19 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:33,040 potatoes we chose a few new games from for our test so we'll start with those 20 00:01:31,119 --> 00:01:37,720 ones first and first on the chopping block is cities skylines to Benchmark 21 00:01:35,799 --> 00:01:42,119 cities we downloaded the Los Santos map from GTA 5 made by groeller on the Steam 22 00:01:40,399 --> 00:01:47,360 Workshop and we chose a section of the town called South Los Santos with mixed 23 00:01:44,719 --> 00:01:51,000 traffic and building density to push uh the test pinch quite a bit we maxed out 24 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:56,079 the graphics and zoomed in almost all the way and then started to record 25 00:01:53,119 --> 00:02:00,000 City's skylines likes its CPU cores but only to a certain point dual cores seem 26 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:03,159 to struggle a bit more than the rest them at least which wasn't too 27 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:09,520 surprising but where it got interesting was at the 8 core level cities ran a lot 28 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:11,039 more poorly than actually lower levels 29 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:14,879 and had very noticeable stuttering throughout all of our testing a reminder 30 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:19,080 however is we did run our test shortly after the game came out so optimizations 31 00:02:16,959 --> 00:02:23,360 might be not be made yet and might be made in the future and could very 32 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:27,640 drastically change things over time next up we have Dying Light we decided to run 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:31,080 it at both 1080P and 4K after we saw the 1080p results to see if we could 34 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:35,040 separate the numbers a bit more as the only outlier was really the Dual Corp 35 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:39,840 how we ran the Benchmark for Dying Light was relatively straightforward in the 36 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:45,440 main town close to the tower there's a really long overpass near the start of 37 00:02:42,959 --> 00:02:50,360 that is a bus which is near the opening to the tunnel anyways just run down the 38 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:55,879 overpass and loot back around while zigzagging through burning cars and the 39 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:59,840 undead we ran our test after the developers have released several patches 40 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:03,760 in optimizations and even at Absolute absolutely cranked settings not much of 41 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:07,200 a difference really occurs at the higher end configurations with only the dual 42 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:12,000 core and dual core with hyperthreading configurations suffering a bit of a 43 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:16,040 performance hit our last newcomer to the game suite but not our last Benchmark is 44 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:20,000 Total War Atilla for this game we set the appropriate graphic settings which I 45 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:25,720 decided was apparently freaking all of them and then selected the suon 46 00:03:22,239 --> 00:03:27,560 historical battle swz SW so I don't know 47 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:31,439 and Clash the armies together in one giant ball without speeding it up we 48 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:35,599 ended up running The Benchmark at every quality preset as you just saw to see if 49 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:38,959 we could churn different results out of the game and it turns out Total War 50 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:43,000 atella is quite the PowerHouse throwing more cores at it does indeed give a bit 51 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:48,159 more of a performance jump over a dual core setup however the amount is oddly 52 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:52,040 very negligible at lower presets I will note that this game isn't the constant 53 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:56,720 FPS of the game these numbers are only from intense combat sections so it would 54 00:03:54,280 --> 00:04:01,599 run way better when not staring directly into combat where the twist comes in is 55 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:06,000 at the maxim performance preset the numbers are just ridiculous for this 56 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:10,000 test and make no sense but average frame rates are super high and there is no 57 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:14,079 drastic stuttering so if you're worried about if your machine can run this game 58 00:04:12,239 --> 00:04:19,160 put it on maximum performance settings and it should be extremely easy for you 59 00:04:15,959 --> 00:04:21,120 to do even with some older slower 60 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:25,199 processors now that all the new games are done let's take a break for some 61 00:04:22,759 --> 00:04:29,320 oldies but goodies the first being Tomb Raider I know this game dates back all 62 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:34,080 the way to 2013 but it's a very reliable benchmark Mark in terms of GPU scaling 63 00:04:31,919 --> 00:04:38,919 so we decided to include it as it's in lots of our test Suites like Dying Light 64 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:43,759 we ran Tomb Raider in both 1080P and 4K and the results were pretty funny to be 65 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:49,400 honest it doesn't seem to matter what arrangement of course you have the game 66 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:52,400 will run perfectly equal like freakishly 67 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:54,919 equal even at 4K I think in the future 68 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:59,840 we will leave this game for GPU tests only our final game is Far Cry 4 this 69 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,720 game is a bit of a [ __ ] show and and that's why we saved it for last 70 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,639 performance is essentially the same across four six and eight core settings 71 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:11,280 regardless of hyperthreading but as soon as you drop down to dual cores 72 00:05:08,759 --> 00:05:15,720 hyperthreading or not the game flat out refuses to boot at all this is because 73 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:19,600 Ubisoft locked out all users that have dual course from launching the freaking 74 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:23,840 game there is a fixed floating round that could potentially get it running 75 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:27,800 but it's a hassle and most mention of it has been pulled down by Ubisoft anyways 76 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:33,000 those of you with older dual cores or the Pentium g3258 first edition but 77 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:36,880 whereas this could be a pretty big issue for you honestly the most disappointing 78 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:42,880 thing about this issue is that from the looks of it it's easier to fix for 79 00:05:39,479 --> 00:05:45,919 pirates than it is for Real paying users 80 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,880 which is highly disappointing yet not at 81 00:05:45,919 --> 00:05:52,319 all surprising all right I guess that brings us tidally to the conclusion of 82 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:56,680 this video which is having more cores is nice and may help with some things like 83 00:05:54,520 --> 00:06:01,639 video rendering or game streaming or whatever else but you don't need more 84 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:06,759 than a quad core or for modern gaming and 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