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hey tech fans what's going on welcome back once again to Tekken tomorrow I work here glad to see you now lately we've seen AMD release a whole bunch of CPUs in fact they have an 800 X it has 8 cores 16 threads crazy ass CPU competes pretty much almost like the i7 69 50 which is a great thing for AMD but my biggest question about all this stuff is is if you're a gamer and I mean strictly a gamer you buy your system in you're a gamer you don't do content creation you're not doing streaming you're not doing any of that stuff and you're definitely not doing workstation stuff for 3d modeling do any of those extra cores do you one bit of good and how many cores you actually need to play games hmm hmm well I've been doing a lot of research lately trying to check this out and see you know where the actual sweet spot is for cores and gaming and what you actually need to be a competitive gamer and I have to say that you definitely do not need an i7 69 50 and you don't need an 1800 X all those extra cores and stuff are really cool if you actually have a program that takes advantage of those things but at this point in time there's no game on the market that I could find that takes advantage of eight cores and sixteen threads I couldn't even find a six core 12 threaded game at this point right now the most you're going to be able to see is 4 cores 8 threads with hyper threading and that's pretty much the sweet spot for gaming it doesn't really matter whether you buy an AMD CPU or an Intel CPU there's just no reason for all those extra cores if you're just a gamer and let's just face it gamers like their game to look awesome so the best thing that you can ever do is make sure that you buy yourself a killer ass GPU and save your money we've been doing a lot of reviews and you guys can see from our reviews of the 1600 x if you just overclock it just a wee bit can totally compete with the 1700 and 1800 X at a much much lower price point let's just face it the 1800 X is 500 freaking bucks 1600 X about 220 bucks big price difference almost cut in half and with the gaming numbers being so damn close why would you pay twice as much to only get a couple more frames per second just have all these cores and to brag about it so let's touch upon that real quick of course everybody says oh I like this because it's future proof what future we talking about man because honestly the future is right now you're living in the now you're testing things in the now so what does it matter if your CPU will be competitive more than five years down the road because more than five years down the road there's going to be so many new CPU releases in that time that these CPUs is all these cores are just going to be like and it's not going to mean jack in the end and since many of you people don't even use programs that access those cores future-proof honestly to my book I mean no offense to anybody out there is just like words throw out there because it's really not AMD obviously has come to market once again with some new technology and some killer stuff just like they did when they released the very first CPU that could support 64-bit windows ok that was awesome cool but by the time that 64 bit windows came out until already had a CPU that beat that CPU across the board so that's what I'm trying to say about future proof is so you guys see the trends in a year from now you're going to look back and AMD is already going to have new CPUs that are going to replace those so you guys are going oh it's totally future proof what's really not they'll be new board chipsets they'll be new technology and your so called you know future proof CPU isn't really going to mean anything in fact all of me is that the few games that actually do all of a sudden may take advantage of having eight cores and 16 threads sure it'll play them but is it going to play them as well as the games that are coming out now probably not to be truthful with you from what I've seen if you have a dual-core CPU and it has hyper-threading you can pretty much play any game out there and get great results now there are a few games out there that are starting to take advantage of those multicores so for me the sweet spot right now is having a four core eight thread CPU every game out there will be able to play on this No out there right now that I know of if you guys do happen to know the game that will take advantage of eight-six you know all these extra cores please let me know down below because I want to learn as well but after going out and reading a lot of articles and checking out what people have to say around the world pretty much having a dual core processor with hyper threading will play all of your games there might be a few games where those cores will you know pop in and help you out but overall focus is going to do a percentage the percentage of games right now out there still only support greatly two cores and hyper-threading obviously the ones that do support more that's going to be great but overall in the giant big picture you just don't need it so why waste your money buying all these expensive CPUs with all of these cores if you're a gamer save your money get yourself a great GPU and CPU let it be secondary because like I said man if you can get ahold of yourself a nice dual-core CPU that has hyper-threading you're going to be ok obviously some of the older you know CPUs that came out there the 8350 and some of those they bottleneck quite a bit in fact even the i-5 and some stuff you're starting to see it bottleneck but if you get some of the latest CPUs you get an i7 7700 K or anything like that you're going to be playing games with absolutely no problems whatsoever and in fact the 1600 X which I think right now is kind of a sweet spot for all processors because of what it's made out of and what it does you can set yourself up with a be 350 motherboard cheap parts and have yourself a great gaming system for a very very low price so at the end of the days how many cores you really need well you definitely don't need six you don't need a you don't need twelve you really only need two with hyper-threading having four is better but it's not the breaking neck of anything whatsoever and getting a cap of a few frames per second big deal the name of the game is saving money and getting the absolute best performance you can get from that cash hi my work thanks for putting up with me we'll see you guys back on Tekken tomorrow for more tech baby