For an extreme budget build? 12100 is no slouch, no matter if you wish to label it a"mere" 4C/8T. The IPC uplift from 12th-Gen/Alder Lake P-Cores, means that this 4C/8T CPU competes favorably (for games) with AMD 6C/12T CPUs like the 4500 and 5500. (Again, for GAMES, not Cinebench.)
It's not your father's i7-6700.
Anyways, I wasn't trying to pimp the build vid, only to point out that it contained ARC A380 gameplay vids partway through. This being the ARC thread, I thought someone might be interested.