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in 2018 is four cores four threads all you really need for gaming well to answer this question instead of pairing it up with a high range gtx 980ti or gtx 1080 which i do see a lot of people doing instead of that we're going to be pairing it with a mid-range graphics card the GTX 1060 we're also going to be comparing it against the 8700 K in some of the most demanding titles because in previous videos you guys tell me that I'm missing out on testing some games that really stress the CPU games like far cry 5 assassin's creed origin so we're gonna be testing those but also we're gonna go down a trip down memory lane and see why four cores four threads may still be relevant for a few years to come welcome back to tech yes City I hope you've all been deal hunting or if you're not deal hunting then you're probably buying new PC parts and right beside me here I have the i3 8100 which comes in just over a hundred dollars however a lot of the times people say that four cores four threads is coming irrelevant in 2018 and to that I'd say when it comes to PC building you always want to balance out the money that you spent on a CPU and also a GPU this has been a trend that I've always recommended people do when they want to build a new PC and get the best value for money so today we have the i3 8100 coupled with a gtx 1060 from Galax and the first game we're going to pull up here is far cry 5 when we coupled it with the i3 8100 we score an average FPS of 68 frames then we got a minimum of 61 comparing that against the 8700 K that's called 69 and then a minimum of 59 so we saw that a 1 FPS difference and on this I did set the memory to 26 66 megahertz on both configurations then we where the project cars to the trend didn't really change a whole lot here as well on the 8100 we've got 96 average FPS then 85 and 61 for the one in point one percent lows move over to the 8700 K it did score 2 FPS higher however since this game does not have an inbuilt benchmark I did have to do a few runs and then average those runs so there would still be a little bit of variance in this benchmark per se however moving over to Creed origin a very demanding title especially in 2018 I believe this is a console port so it's optimization for PC is still not the best in today's standards first up the 8100 scored 58 average FPS was the 1% low of 49 and then a point 1 percent low of 10 move over to the 8700 K it scored 60 and then 48 and 12 respectively so there wasn't a whole lot of the difference again in Assassin's Creed origin and even though I turned off vsync this game didn't have an inbuilt cap of 60 FPS moving over the last title that was demanding we had Witcher 3 scoring 60 average FPS and then 52 and 47 move over to the 8100 that scored 60 and then 51 and 27 this is in the latest expansion as well so witcher 3 far cry 5 and project cars and even assassin's creed origin didn't see a whole lot of a difference we did use an SSD in both the builds and as I said before we did overclock the memory to 2666 from 2133 which in my opinion is a very obtainable memory overclock even on the most budget of budget ddr4 memory so what does this all mean for you as a gamer well when it comes to building a new PC you generally as I said before want to balance out your CPU and your GPU that is the money you spend on both so sure I could put the i3 8100 in couple of with a gtx 980ti and that would show more of a gap between the two CPUs however when it comes to practicality and if you just want to get into PC gaming to get on that 8700 K first of all you have the extra price for the CPU which is at least an extra $200 then you've got a custom cooler because the 8700 kate doesn't come with a cooler as opposed to the i3 8100 which does and then you most likely will want to get a better motherboard anyway so that your CPU doesn't throttle because we used a budget motherboard in this build and it's absolutely fine for the i3 8100 however going back down history Lane it's an interesting trend that we're seeing here back in 2005 AMD released their dual core consumer CPU the Athlon 64 x2 then two years later Intel released their Core 2 Duo quad named Li the most popular model was the Q 6600 and then 10 years later we still have four cores being released that are still relevant in gaming so what's with this trend why hasn't the market adopted more cause more threats especially when it comes to gaming when we look at the server side we have definitely seen an increase in the core count and also the prices of CPUs in that respective field however when it does come to gaming and especially consumer n CPUs we haven't seen that same trajectory in the increase in core counts and so this does come down I believe to programming the actual games themselves when I look through posts on the internet about threading for multi-threaded applications it's actually very difficult even in 2018 it is still very difficult to perfectly optimize a game and hence budgets and also developers at Studios don't have to outlay the extra money if they quickly put together games as the case with pub G when that was first released it was very single core dependent and sure as that game did blow up they did go and reoptimize the game to utilize more cause and threads but the problem still exists where titles are still constantly being released and they do only utilize one two or even four threads as opposed to utilizing eight or sixteen especially perfectly I know in the past that a company called dice has been renowned for optimizing their games for many cause and many threads though dice is a company that has been around for years and they do have the budget to make their games more polished and optimized especially for PC another example of this is Blizzard especially overwatch a game that was incredibly competitive yet it was incredibly well optimised for PC they may be thinking this is a problem that will soon be fixed with new api's like Vulcan and dx12 and the PC title doom was certainly a poster child for how well optimization can get on the new AP is but unfortunately that's where the sort of trend gets bucked Doom is really the only good example for games on new AP is that run really well when it comes to a lot of other titles that have dx12 support or even Vulcan support a lot of people don't use them because the games actually end up running worse so what does this leave us as tech enthusiasts and gamers or even people like me making recommendations well it leaves us at a point where I am always going to recommend get what's relevant for you at this point in time we don't know what the future will spell for optimizations cause and threads but one thing is if you Gaming in the now then you want to enjoy your experience and that's what an i3 8100 definitely for the money or a Verizon 2200 G or arisin 3 1204 cor will give you coupled with a gtx 1060 or an rx 580 for example which a mid-range grab is cards and even better news if you're into competitive multiplayer titles like csgo a CPU like this will at 1080p give you around 300 fps all the time every time and I hope you enjoyed this video if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let us know in the comment section below what do you think about these 4 cores 4 threaded CPUs in 2018 I think they're absolutely fine though of course if you do want to get into streaming then you may need to spend extra money on something like a six core 12 threaded Rison or Intel CPU anyway guys I'll catch you in another tech video very soon he's out for now bye