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hey guys is Austin so say you're going to be doing a budget gaming PC build what CPU should you go for for the last year the AMD Athlon series has been the best way to go for a lot of gaming builds and with the new Athlon 860 K it's now sporting AMD's updated steamroller CPU cores on the other hand Intel recently released the pentium g 2358 better known as the anniversary edition with an unlocked cord to allow for some serious overclocking on the other hand the Athlon 860 K sports four cores and a higher 3.7 gigahertz clock speed but it's also $20 more expensive while the pentium is a dual-core processor at 3.2 gigahertz it's also based on the same Haswell architecture as the higher-end core i5s and i7s on paper it doesn't look like much of a fight is the Athlon is sporting two more cores and it's called 500 megahertz higher however the specs don't tell the entire story in this case while the Athlon series has been shipping with unlocked processors for a while now that work with even cheaper motherboards like the excellent msi a 78m e 35 intel is typically kept overclocking limited to their higher-end processors and motherboards with the pentium anniversary though a few companies like a soos have enabled overclocking on their more budget offerings like the be 85 mg 2.0 you will need to update the BIOS out of the box but after you do you'll be able to dive into the settings and change things like clock speed and voltage both CPUs are decent out of the box however to really get the most out of them you really do need to overclock I did all my testing with a cooler master hyper 212 Evo easily one of my favorite CPU coolers with it I was able to bump the 860 K to 4.4 gigahertz and the Pentium anniversary to a massive 4.7 gigahertz price wise when you put the 212 Evo along with the CPUs and motherboards you're going to be looking at $185 regardless if you go for the Pentium or the Athlon to make sure the CPUs aren't being bottlenecked by the graphics card I tested with Anna soos Radeon r9 285 a solid mid-range card the first test is Cinebench which is a good starting point to get an idea of the actual performance of each CPU for single toy performance the Hassell cores inside the pentium are a massive help as it easily outpaces the Athlon even without overclocking use all the cores though and things get a lot more even a lot of us also work with video whether it's for streaming or editing I took a 10-minute 4k video and ran it through handbrake to bring it down to 1080p here the four cores of the Athlon have a chance to shine falling behind the Pentium at stock but essentially tying when overclocked the 3dmark firestrike test is a good way of saying how well each CPU can handle some intense gaming as far as strike tends to be heavily graphics palem for the most part you won't see a huge difference here but the Pentium does pull out a small but noticeable lead BioShock Infinite was one of my favorite games of 2013 with excellent graphics even on lower end hardware run it at 1080p on ultra and again Intel pulls out the wind this time with even the stock Pentium beating the overclocked Athlon when it comes to PC racing games grit has always been one of the best and grid Autosport doesn't disappoint this is a game that really likes a fast CPU and it shows here as the Pentium is significantly faster clearing a cool 40 percent performance increase when overclocked Metro last light did a terrific job of delivering a great stealth first-person shooting experience and the new read X version takes it up a notch Metro really likes a powerful quad-core processor and it shows the app on nearly catches up at stock despite its major single-threaded disadvantage overclocked things however and the Pentium is still able to pull out the win the Athlon is still a great CPU but this new pentium Anniversary Edition is an absolute monster so what do you guys think would you use the Pentium in your next build let me know in the comments below anyway I've got to give a big shout-out to little bits for making this video possible little bits is an easy and fun way of making your own electronic creations whether you just want to learn how electronics work or want to build something cool like a doorbell that texts you you can do it with little bits it's crazy easy to get started with there's no need to solder or code is everything is magnetic you'll find modules ranging from basics like an LED all the way to a mini computer running Linux that can work on Wi-Fi or you could you know create a real masterpiece if you want to attempt to match my amygz creation head over to little bits comm where you'll get $20 off your first kit with the promo code Austin and that also includes free shipping in the US again that's little bits comm and promo code Austin to get yourself $20 off so definitely go check it out and help support the channel anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one