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today's video is a true David versus Goliath epic showdown a battle royale between the Maus and the Minotaur a colossal clash between Cthulhu and a Care Bear that okay yeah I'm probably selling this a little bit hard but the point of today's video is to take a real underdog competitor the intel pentium g 32:58 and see how well it can compete with Intel's top-of-the-line core i7 59 60 X if we give it as much help as we can so stay tuned for that and another upcoming CPU benchmarking experimentation video where I'll be taking that same Extreme Edition chip that we'll be looking at here and seeing if I can manipulate it to simulate the performance of other Intel CPUs in benchmarks from December 13th to 20th 2014 you can save on select Intel CPU Schnucks and SSDs with special holiday rebates from select retailers click now to learn more so let's take a moment to meet today's competitors in the right corner wearing blue trunks is a core i7 59 60 X 1/8 core monster of a processor that's plucked at 3 gigahertz nominal and turbo boost sucked up 3.5 it features hyper threading for a total of 16 processing threads it supports ddr4 memory quad-channel to boot and is the meanest desktop CPU on the block but the only real knock against it being the thousand dollar price tag and in the left corner wearing I guess they're also blue trunks is the Pentium 32:58 anniversary edition now pentium processors used to be top-of-the-line but these days until kind of uses the brand on only their most budget oriented desktop CPUs with very very low specs I mean in fact this one only features two processing cores in an era when four is the norm no hyper threading for better handling of multiple tasks per core a lonely 3.2 gigahertz clock speed and worst of all it doesn't have the ability to boost up the frequency of its pores dynamically with turbo boost so it's stuck running at 3.2 gigahertz all the time not much of a sales pitch right yeah Linus actually this thing sounds awful why are you even interested in it well since you asked the G 32:58 is an exceptional piece of hardware for two reasons one it's only 70 bucks and has the same underlying architecture as the rest of Intel's Haswell CPUs including that Extreme Edition I'll be it with less cash and to that 3.2 gigahertz is a little misleading when you can spend literally 30 seconds overclocking this bad boy to 4.5 gigahertz or more with 1.35 volt I was rock-solid stable at 4.7 gigahertz so with single threaded performance it's theoretically 25% better than what the 59 60 X can achieve that stock speeds maybe some of our tests gaming anyone won't look so one-sided after all so let's get into the tests I ran both configurations with 16 gigs of ddr3 1866 and ddr4 2400 according to platform compatibility both of them ran in Asus GTX 970 strix graphics card for all game tests and both were cooled by a Corsair h-60 liquid cooler we'll start with the gaming results all games were run at 1080p since most gamers are still using that resolution and frankly I was really hoping for better from the Pentium Anniversary Edition even overclocked thanks to the constantly improving ability of modern games to leverage the 59 60 X's additional processing course the Pentiums higher-frequency was only able to give it the upper hand in Tomb Raider 2013 but the good news here is that with the exception of Crysis 3 the Pentium didn't bottleneck even a 300-plus dollar graphics card to the point where minimum frame rates fell so drastically below that magical 60 FPS mark that it was unpleasant to play so it's not a win for the G 32:58 in the conventional sense but considering that it costs less than one 14th as much and delivers a passable experience even a good experience when overclocked I can't rag on it too hard here non-gaming results were as expected much worse not having additional processing cores in any multi red workload like the 3d rendering results in Cinebench and pov-ray and popular compression utility 7-zip made this a bloodbath so don't expect the G 32:58 to perform well for tasks like video editing and remember that the point of our test was to find out how close we could get the G 32:58 to the 5960 X's default speed and there's actually even Headroom on that bad boy as well so it actually looks even closer than it is I mean for heavy multitasking like what we did in this video where I actually tried to create the most ridiculous scenario that I could to max out an 8 core CPU more processing cores really are needed these days with as many as possible being a pretty nice luxury but this conclusion time now I guess life is rarely as simple as picking out whichever one seems most luxurious and going with that and cost is always a factor you may have noticed that I stealthily included the core i5 46 70 K on all these graphs from before that was no accident at 240 bucks for actually the 4690k which is even slightly faster the bang for the buck proposition looks pretty good compared to the Extreme Edition and while it doesn't deliver as much value per dollar in a lighter task as our little you know David G 32:58 it also won't run into a straight-up performance wall like the Pentium did in Crysis 3 where minimum frame rates dropped to 14 fps making the game an unplayable stuttery mess so that's what most people end up with something more like a core i5 at the end of their shopping experience but I'd like to hear from you guys in the comments who do you think was the big winner in today's showdown and while you guys give that some thought I'll tell you how you too can be a big winner join Dollar Shave Club today at dollarshaveclub.com Lynas to start getting high quality lawn mowers delivered straight to your door once a month which you can use to your landscaping and wait a minute who would want a new lawn mower every month that's not what they do Dollar Shave Club sends you high-quality razors so you can we'll do the landscaping you need to do and even shave your face 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