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it's a fact of life that wherever you go someone is always trying to sell you

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something whether it's a brand hyping up their latest 1.21 gigahertz CPU or a

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so-called influencer rubbing your face in a brand new gaming setup that you

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would have to save for years to afford for the third time this week

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but i'ma let you in on a little secret come on come over here

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you don't have to buy anything in fact i

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bet the old crappy quad-core pc that you already

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have is good enough for anything you'd need it to do and if it's not you could

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get one of those for much cheaper than the fancy 8 or 16 core cpus that all the

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big players want you to buy let me show you

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and yes i appreciate the irony

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there have been many popular 4-core cpus over the

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there have been many popular 4-core cpus over the last 10 years and we can't test

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all of them but we do have a handful dating from today all the way back to

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early 2013. we've used an rtx 2080

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founders edition for all of our tests and we ran our gaming tests at 1080p so

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more of the burden will be on the CPU rather than the GPU i don't want to

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waste your time so let's jump right into the results where

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wow look at that i mean it sure is easy

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to show you what a piece of crap your old 4770k is in it the 3300x which

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represents a modern quad-core CPU manages to beat it handily and stepping

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up to six or eight cores especially with the 5800x which features AMD's latest

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zen 3 architecture is going to deliver a completely different computing

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experience that is as long as you actually use any of these

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applications the truth of the matter is that the benchmarks that we and other

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members of the tech press use to compare processors are not chosen for how

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representative they are of the typical user's daily workload rather they're

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often chosen because they allow us to demonstrate how their performance

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differs for heavy users or in future

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workloads that might not be mainstream yet but we expect them to be at some

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point down the road like there's a pretty good chance that you personally

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have never fired up v-ray or cinema 4d

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there's a good chance you don't edit or encode videos so if we flashed these

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charts in front of you you could easily end up spending a lot of money for

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something that you might never need even file decompression which is

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something that we all do often when we unpack a download from the internet and

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is a poster child for the benefits of multi-core cpus

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well it's a relatively light workload these days and most decompression tasks

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will complete in seconds on any of the cpus on this chart so

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does it really matter the two or three

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times a week that it comes up if it's 25 seconds or 45 seconds it's time for the

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other side of this coin while our cinebench r23 single thread web browsing

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grand theft auto 5 and cs go results demonstrate that there are certainly

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benefits to modern processors the addition of more cores

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isn't the biggest one and check this out if we covered the

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legend on these assassins creed valhalla results you'd be hard-pressed to guess

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which cpus have four six or eight cores

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go ahead and try but hold on a second Linus everyone knows that FPS and action

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games are still dependent on just a handful of threads you need to test

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strategy games that can use a multi-core CPU to calculate all the possible ai

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moves or whatever and yeah someday that

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will probably be a valid point but it is not this day

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and we did a quick civilization 6 run on our zen 2 cpus to demonstrate that point

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now with the latest gen consoles from the big players featuring eight core 16

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thread cpus now we are going to see developers really push to take advantage

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of everything they can squeeze out of them but if history has anything to go on

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it'll be a while before we see a game that was really built from the ground up

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for this generation of hardware and it'll be years before we see these many

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core designs used to their fullest potential which doesn't mean our video

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is over not even close i haven't even mentioned lttstore.com

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with its great designs and high quality shirts yet the thing is game consoles do

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pretty much one thing they game but your

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pc could be doing any number of things capturing video from your webcam

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removing ambient noise from your microphone feed encoding a stream to share with your friends or viewers what

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happens to our quad-core performance when we throw common background tasks

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into the mix so let's fire up premiere we're not working on it right now it's

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just sitting there uh we're gonna need discord a little bit of obs

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stream that gameplay right and love me some background youtube music playlist

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action all right let's do this again despite the fact

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that we had all of this extra software open in the background none of our cpus

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performed in a way that i would describe as being unplayable our older four core

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chips did struggle significantly more in cs go with all these programs running

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with the 4770k actually losing nearly half of its performance but that still

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left it at over 120 frames per second and that would be more than good enough

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for most people unless they're especially competitive in which case

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guys turn off your background tasks all right and moving to our more modern quad

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core 3300 x it lost only a marginally

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higher percentage of its performance when compared to the eight core 5800x

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in gta 5 the performance hit was even more negligible what this tells us then

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is that sure if you have more overhead

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overall there will be less to worry about when you open extra apps if you

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have a mini core CPU but as long as you're not going to be running 30 pieces

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of software while you're running your game and expecting to get the maximum

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FPS you're still going to get a completely playable experience

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but there are other advantages to overbuilding a gaming rig particularly

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with modern AMD processors if you allocate four of your course

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exclusively to your game and this is something you can do manually or there

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are tools to help you do it theoretically it could help smooth out

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the experience both by removing extra

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clutter from background tasks on those cores

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and by having all of the game tasks running on the same physical group of

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course for faster cache access at least in theory in practice we didn't observe

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nearly as much difference as we expected but some users on reddit have reported

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measurable performance improvements particularly in cs go with first gen

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ryzen chips so your mileage may vary the

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truth is though that if you don't have a fortune to spend on a gaming pc

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that's okay a chip from 2013 may come with unpatched

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security flaws that have scary names like spectre and meltdown and microsoft

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warns that older platforms experience 52 more kernel mode crashes in Windows

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11. but real talk spectre and meltdown are only of concern to enterprise and

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business customers for the most part and 52 more than point two percent is point

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three percent that sounds like a risk worth taking when a 4770k can be had for

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about a hundred bucks on ebay there is still the question of whether it's wise

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to buy into aging technology like ddr3

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when older ryzen 3000 chips can be had for not much more but that one is just

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gonna come down to your individual budget which we have no way of knowing

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what we do know is that four cores is still enough unless you actually need

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extra multi-core grunt for content creation or for non-gaming workloads

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this video maybe check out our ryzen 5000 review which has a bit more detail

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about how tasks pinned to certain CPU

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cores can have a performance benefit