Stefan Mileschin

Oh man. Oh man oh man. So, yes, the desktop processor market has been kind of a sleepy place of late. The story has been Intel's consistent dominance, AMD's repeated struggles, and not much in the way of performance progress. Worse still, prices have stagnated for way, way too long. There's been precious little reason to consider an upgrade. Happily, Intel has decided to inject a little excitement into things by releasing a really cheap CPU that's completely unlocked, the Pentium G3258. I'd say they've nailed it: excitement achieved.

This new Pentium is an unlocked dual-core CPU based on the latest 22-nm Haswell silicon. I ran out and picked one up as soon as they went on sale last week. The list price is only 72 bucks , but Micro Center had them on sale for $60. In other words, you can ...

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