Is G3220 good for gaming?

[shrewdgamer]

Is G3220 good for gaming for next few years? Will it be able to utilize fully a GPU of GTX 780 range?

 

[NTMBK]

It's not a great choice. More and more game engines are heavily threaded (especially since both consoles now have 8 weak cores) and will stutter badly on a dual core. It will definitely bottleneck a GTX 780, or R9 290. You should be looking for minimum Core i3 or Athlon 760K, preferably a Core i5.

 

[nwo]

Anything under an i5 will bottleneck a GTX 780. Core i3 Haswell is the lowest I would go on a gaming CPU. Alternatively, look for a used i5 2500k or i5 3570k which would be a much better choice for ~$150.

 

[DigDog]

woha.

a G3220 is a GREAT choice for £42. Buy this now, and throw it away when you can afford a 4670k.

 

[frozentundra123456]

I know people say to spend more on the gpu, but it is silly to spend 400 dollars on a gpu and cheap out on the CPU. It will be a very unbalanced system. I would even sacrifice a bit on the gpu if necessary to get an i5.

 

[AtenRa]

G3220 will be fine in the majority of games paired up to R9 270 or GTX-750Ti/760. There will be games that the CPU will strangle but in the vast majority it will be fine.

If you are in a low budget it is better to have the G3220 + R9 270 than Core i3 + R7 250.

 

[DigDog]

we're talking around $400 for the GPU and $200 for the CPU, right?

you can lose $40 to get a throw away CPU, and buy a $400 GPU, and your performance hit will not be horrible. At least you will suffer for a couple months, then you buy a K series and the pain ends.

or you can buy a $200 CPU, and a $200-250 GPU, have less than the performance from ^, and any upgrade would cost you $400.

guys, real life example. i paired my 770 with a G1610. and guess what, it worked.
maybe the FPS wasn't stellar, but it did its job until i could get a 4670k(and mobo). now the G is sitting in a drawer and i'm not even bothering eBay'g it.

with the Haswell celerons, there is no reason not to. the G3220 is even too much imho, but as a temporary fix, it does a great job for a very minor loss.

in two-three months (even if he's broke) he won't even feel the expense of $50. (which he could even recoup some of, if he were so inclined)

 

[eternalone]

How will the G3220 hold up in BF4 on medium 64player maps??

 

[lyssword]

I have g3420, which is 3.2g version of 3220. Anyways, its a great match for low end gpu like 7770, but you will be severly holding back 780/290x , I mean like half the performance in some games compared to 4670k.
It's an excellent build for a budget $300 computer, definitely nothing close to being appropriate for 700-$1000 computer

 

[frozentundra123456]

Well, personally, I would rather sacrifice a bit on the gpu and get a faster CPU like an i3 or i5. If necessary one can adjust gpu settings, but if you are CPU limited there is not much you can do.

 

[DigDog]

Well, personally, I would rather sacrifice a bit on the gpu and get a faster CPU like an i3 or i5. If necessary one can adjust gpu settings, but if you are CPU limited there is not much you can do.

because you'd rather get a midrange cpu and midrange gpu, and then replace the midrange gpu with a top of the range gpu, *only* wasting $200?

thats much more sensible than wasting $40

 

[mikeymikec]

I think frozentundra123456 is used to building a computer and keeping it that way for the foreseeable future, whereas the Pentium + 780 plan only sounds reasonable if you have a temporary cashflow shortage and need to build now, then you plan to upgrade to the i5 within x short time frame (based on one knowing that the cashflow shortage will finish by a certain date).

But then the words "gaming PC" and "need" don't gel well in a sentence, IMO. Wait until the cashflow shortage is actually over, because of sod's law.

 

[SPBHM]

for slower cards like a GTX 650, 7750 and so on, I think the G3220 is a good CPU,

but for a 780? no way,
it's a $500 card right?

get at least a $200 CPU (i5) and you will have a well balanced PC.

otherwise you can have a great gaming experience with a cheaper VGA (like 760, R9 270x) and better CPU (not a g3220) for the same money.

CPUs tend to last longer and cost less anyway, so "over expending" (if you can call $200-300 that) on the CPU is not as bad as doing it on the GPU imo ($400+)

 

[Magic Carpet]

Is G3220 good for gaming for next few years? Will it be able to utilize fully a GPU of GTX 780 range?

Bad choice. You want at least 4 fast threads for 2014-2015. Why not pair a Celeron with a Titan then? You'd quickly become a local celebrity over here

 

[mikeymikec]

Bad choice. You want at least 4 fast threads for 2014-2015. Why not pair a Celeron with a Titan then? You'd quickly become a local celebrity over here

Then complain loudly and regularly that the Titan is rubbish. 1 or 2GB system RAM?

 

[Techhog]

No, just no. Step down to a GTX 760, and step up to an i5.

 

[Charlie98]

Either you have the money for a proper gaming CPU and GPU.... or you don't. If you have a use for a used G3220 then that's fine, but to buy a lesser CPU with the intentions of buying another one 'when you have the money' is a waste.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Is G3220 good for gaming for next few years? Will it be able to utilize fully a GPU of GTX 780 range?

No and no.

Drop down to a GTX 760 and use the savings to buy an i5.

 

[skipsneeky2]

I would only buy the G3220 with the intentions of buying a i5 shortly later and if i could get most of the money back from the sale of the G3220 or if you intend to gift the cpu to a friend or family member for a build if the chance ever came up.

If not like the others said, the gtx760 with a i5 would be one hell of a better pairing then the G3220 with the gtx780.

 

[sm625]

If I disable two cores on my i5, the difference is minor, except when playing a cpu intensive game. But there is a difference. The best way to describe it is that it feels like your cpu is being throttled intermittently, especially when switching browser tabs. It's kind of annoying ... but if you do not play the kinds of games or run the kinds of programs that peg cores to 100%, then a G3220 should be fine. When you will get irritated is when windows decides to run updates in the background. Any sort of msiexec these days tends to peg one whole cpu core. You will want to make sure that doesnt happen during a game if you only have 2 cores. And yes windows is stupid enough to do that during a boss fight.

 

[el etro]

Pick an athlon. In modern games like BF4/C3/CoH2/TTR2 you will fell your processor incapable of driving any VGA. I say it by personal experience.

 

[bononos]

Is G3220 good for gaming for next few years? Will it be able to utilize fully a GPU of GTX 780 range?

You're never actually going to get a 780 are you? Get an i3 or i5.

 

[Phynaz]

You're never actually going to get a 780 are you? Get an i3 or i5.

According to his other thread he already has an i3.
http://forums.anandtech.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=36104747

 

[DigDog]

that cpu is 1/4 the price of a 4670k. when on a limited budget (and looking to buy a 780, no less), i'd rather buy a cheap cpu and throw it out, than take money from the gpu budget. because you can't buy a $50 gpu.

$500 gpu
$50 cpu
total : 550
OR
$350 gpu
$200 gpu
total: 550
here you are throwing out the $350, to get to the same system which you can get by throwing out the $50 cpu.
but hey, whatever, the money's yours, throw it our, give it to the poor and needy.

 

[Morbus]

I know people say to spend more on the gpu,

That only makes sense if you plan on dying in the next few years. Because otherwise, when the time comes for you to upgrade the GPU, your CPU will be so weak you'll need to upgrade the CPU as well, and possibly the motherboard and the RAM...

The best course of action for people who are not terminally ill is to SKIMP in the the GPU and get a proper platform up and running. Don't buy a non-gaming GPU, mind you, but don't go overboard either. Anything around 200USD will be enough for 1080p for at least a couple of years and when you can't do it anymore, another 200/300USD will give a whole new life to your PC. In the long term, that's the best course of action, and the one that saves you the most money.