Title: Can a Cheap CPU Keep Up with a High-End Graphics Card? Gaming PCs are known for
Title: Can a $89 CPU Handle a $599 GPU?
If you're building a gaming PC, the temptation is to spend the majority of your budget on a high-end graphics card. But you don't want to forget to save a few bucks on a CPU that can keep up with it. It might seem counterintuitive to pair a $599 GPU with an $89 CPU, but YouTuber RandomGaminginHD recently put the idea to the test and was surprised to find that the results were surprisingly playable.
The Pentium Gold G7400 CPU features two physical cores and four threads with a base frequency of 3.7 GHz. The chip, which currently goes for $89 in the U.