Quote Originally Posted by Slacker Magician View Post
Intel and AMD are competitive with each other again.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/a...800x3d/22.html

As I mentioned before, anything you buy from C2D on up is going to run circles around your current CPU. Your best budget choice for all new HW would probably be a modern CPU/iGPU.
hell my laptops celeron dual core is better than my amd.
Quote Originally Posted by Slacker Magician View Post
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/i...-12300/15.html

You can see here that Skylake is still offering acceptable performance in modern titles. Ivy and Haswell probably aren't far behind. Finding a combo deal for a cheap enough price shouldn't be too hard with a little patience.
those numbers on the i3 don't look bad