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what did the Maxwell say to the Haswell max power welcome back to techie city this is boo Randy's coming back to you guys today with a review of the intel pentium g 3220 now this is a $60 CPU from Intel it's basically a cut-down version of their more expensive CPUs and it features a dual-core CPU with Intel HD graphics and also a clock speed of three gigahertz now something important to remember that this cpu as well it does have no hyper threading and it does have some important instructions that's disabled and I'll get onto that later in the clusion however one thing and the most interesting thing that you guys wanted to see was how does this pentium fare with the 750 Ti and also on top of that I decided to put this 750 Ti with my 4 6 7 TK overclock up to 4.6 gig and then after all that I decided to put the Pentium with the GTX 780 lightning and see that against the 467 TK with the lightning and the results were pretty interesting it did kind of open up a Pandora's box for me and I'll get onto that in conclusion but let's get on them now with a quick look at the product and then we'll get onto the benchmarks so the Intel Pentium comes boxed just like any other Intel CPU in a blue box with a fan and a plastic case holding your chip up the top now one thing that was interesting to note about the Pentium was that it comes with a cut-down version of a CPU cooler as well the 4 670 cake cooler was actually heavier and it actually had a copper base plate there as well so that was something that I found pretty interesting also when I deleted both the chips the actual die on the Pentium was a little bit small in the 4 670 K so it actually is essentially a different chip as well per se however let's get on now with the benchmarks and you guys are dying to see it and I'm dying to deliver it so first up here we have these 750ti benchmarks now this was done on my testbed with 16 gigabytes around clocked at 2000 megahertz now the 4:6 Emenike was clocked at 4.6 gig and the encore ratio was clocked at 4.1 gig the G 3220 was clocked at 3 gigs however I did stop the encore down to 2.9 gigs and with anyone with a Pentium I highly recommend doing this as it will yield you extra FPS I managed to get an extra six six percent FPS on cpu-bound games by doing this tweak alone so it is important to do this tweak and you manually have to do it in your BIOS however with that being said we look at the average frame rates here Crysis 3 at ultra 1080p the four 670 case scored twenty four point seven two versus the Pentium which scored twenty four point two eight the minimum and the maximum were virtually the same there was no difference there so pretty much run a 750 Ti for Crysis 3 it makes no difference if you have a penny more for 670 K based overclock moving on to battlefield 4 7 TI 1080p ultra again we have the same thing happening here 71 point two eight average FPS versus 70 point four four with the minimum and maximum is being virtually identical again we move across the Skyrim house this is the one game ultra 1080p where the 467 TK pulled ahead by a longshot it was one hundred and twenty three point one two versus eighty nine point nine six and the minimum and the maximum also were significantly better on the four 670 K this was just with the 750 Ti as well however the 470 K was still GPU bound in this game as you'll see all the 7080 lightning benchmarks in the next slide but one thing to note though the Pentium still offered a smooth gameplay experience on the 750 Ti in Skyrim so it was nothing to really fret about when we move across now to ARMA 3 I ultros MBTI at 1080p we have here thirty six point three eight on the four 670 K versus thirty six point three two so the minimum and the maximum were virtually the same there was no difference there as well so basically one game out of the four games showed an advantage to the four 670 K when you coupled it with a 750 Ti let's move over now to the GTX 780 benchmarks which was kind of it was a real blow to the Pentium I mean the Pentium lost in every single game by a longshot we look here at Crysis 3 we have sixty eight point eight four frames per second average FPS when we have the four six seventy eight four four point six gig and the GTX 780 overclocked as well when we move now to the pentium g 3220 and scored only thirty seven point six four and it also scored a minimum frame rate so that almost half of what the four six seventy K was scoring now moving over to battlefield again same example there was a big difference there was one hundred and fifty two point eight frames per second versus a hundred and six point two eight minimum and maximum frame rates were also different as well when we move across the skyrim there was absolutely no comparison we scored ninety two point one six versus a hundred and sixty four point two eight so there was a big difference there the minimum and the maximum it will mean minimum has scored almost threefold the minimum frame rates maximum was pretty much almost double so big difference there and also ARMA 3 ultra 1080p when we had the lightning in there the four six seven TK managed to get eighty point 8 4 FPS versus the Pentium G 3220 which only got forty five point three to minimum and maximum were pretty much the same in scale in relation to how far the Pentium 4 670 K pulled ahead of the Pentium so basically this also raised the question of when I was playing these games on the GTX 780 the basically the 750ti felt better than a GTX 780 did on the Pentium and that's something I'll talk about in the conclusion so let's move over now to the conclusion so the verdict is in and men is there a lot to talk about but basically the most important thing first and that is that the penny and 3220 are $60 CPU when put with a 750 Ti gives one satisfactory game experience at 1080p man was I impressed especially with the power consumption when you put these two together in Yunnan Jean Valley I was literally pulling 150 watts on the Mini ITX rig in games it would use even less I imagine probably like 120 watts so to have such efficiency at your disposal was damn impressive so that's one thing I will say about both these they work really well together they are a great synergetic or combo and i highly recommend them however that's where things started to get messy when I put the GTX 780 with the Pentium honestly I mean as you guys saw in the benchmarks the 46 70k destroyed the Pentium when it was coupled with the 780 lightning and it was actually such a weird experience for me that if I had the choice if I'm gonna tell you straight out if I had a 3220 and money was no object I mean just a hypothetical situation money was no object and I could choose the 750ti or a GTX 780 - coupled with the Pentium I would choose the 750 Ti it gave a smoother gaming experience when coupled with the Pentium then did the 780 when coupled with the Pentium that was eye-opening for me it kind of reiterated the importance of a CPU in a gaming rig I mean I guess there's been this thing that the CPU is not important in the gaming rig but I'm here to tell you guys right now when I did that 780 with the Pentium which was a ridiculous bottlenecking experiment it just proved to me how important the CPU is in a gaming rig so I can't stress that enough always couple the right CPU with the right GPU so if you're spending you know X amount of dollars on a GPU then spend and you know a similar amount and give a decent CB you for that GPU however this 60 dollar budget CPU went coupled with the budget graphics card performed really well and that's something that I wanted to test for and it did it really well also I wanted to talk about one thing I wanted to talk to you guys about was the motherboard I am kicking myself in hindsight on the teeth because for an extra 25 dollars I could have got the z87 n from gigabyte over my H 81 M ITX motherboard and man it's a lot better if a motherboard it's got Wireless on board it's got a lot more phases on board way better support for overclocking and then I could have spent an extra $20 Angada G's 32:58 which is an overclockable Pentium so I'm kind of like damn why don't I just spend an extra $45 and have much better motherboard and have an overclockable Pentium to play with so that's something I'm sort of regretting however if you're gonna get this especially if you're gonna get a 750ti then make sure you get a decent motherboard I'd say like a H 81 m from gigabyte that actually isn't going to overheat because the motherboard that I got the asrock H 81m the hietzing got really hot and honestly I would not be comfortable running that thing on a game on a you know everyday gaming rig so that's something about the asrock H 81m that I had to get off my chest now something else that I will quickly talk about with this CPU is that by itself with even the asrock h 81 and motherboard it makes an excellent cpu for a home theater PC this is the current configuration I have with my PC downstairs the Mini ITX rig it's basically a motherboard 4 gigabytes of RAM and this CPU and this CPU does absolutely find it running movies at 1080p checking emails browsing the internet and it all does it while it's only using literally I think about 50 watts from the wall so very impressive if you guys are looking to get this chip for a home theater PC especially a 1080p home theater PC then I can thoroughly recommend this processor the last thing I want to talk to you guys about was the SIF case that I had come through I will review that soon and it wasn't impressive the graphs God didn't fit the power supply that came with it was absolute junk I mean it it's rated at 300 watt and it cut off running this and this and that has the potential to damage it not just the power supply has the Dench potential to damage every component in your rig so that's something that was really scary I mean once it cut out once I didn't do it again because everything was still okay but yeah that's something to keep in mind anyway if you did enjoy this review of the pentium 3220 then please give this video a thumbs up and also if you have any questions about this CPU or anything all the tests in general in this video please leave a comment in the comment section below and don't forget to become a yes man by hitting that sub button and I'll roll the outro and I'll catch you guys with another tech video very soon bye you