Is a Intel Pentium Processor good for gaming?

I been trying to buy a gaming laptop (in my low tight budget of course)
and i been asking around on what cheap laptop should i consider buying
and i frequently get an intel pentium processor laptop

but based on what i research,
i heard pentium is a horrible processor to be use for gaming as it will slow down in time.

so is pentium good for gaming?

i'm gonna play sims 3 at high setting and minecraft,
some heavy duty multi tasking (browser+Microsoft word+notepad+music+video+photoshop AT THE SAME TIME)
though this mainly depend on RAM lol

but anyway, i hate lags so i need a decent-enough processor.

my question is, Is a Intel Pentium Processor good for gaming?

Washio

Yes it's good i use it myself

Shalin

Ok for me I'm a editor and just lost my macbook and most games don't even use Quad Core processors. Except for the newer games. For me I just got told on a question I asked to get q quad core processor for my laptop. But I don't see the point Dual core is just fine. Dual core can run on almost any game old or new. And won't hold you back on older games. Instead of only using 2 cores from your quad core processor A.K.A only have of your CPU on older games or even newer games. Just stick with a Dual Core processor and use the %100 of your processor. Here is the laptop I'm buying to replace my macbook it finally gave up on me so. And I need a new laptop that is good for the money. People are playing battlefield 4 with a slower processor and same graphics card at medium -high settings and getting around 25-30FPS+ It's a good laptop. And I'm planning on getting it myself. Here is the link to it --> http://www.bestbuy.com/...b=overview

Caleb

It depends. There are different variations of the pentium processor. If you are talking about older generation pentium processors like pentium 3 and pentium 4 they are pretty slow. I personally have one old pc with pentium 4 and I get nuts when I have to use it because its slow (although I upgraded the ram to 2GB). I had to put lightweight Xubuntu Linux to make it atleast usable.

Although if you take newer pentium processors like Intel Pentium G2020, there performance is quite good and little bit short of newer i3 processors. You can use them to multitask (with enough ram of course), and games like sims 3 and minecraft will run fine also.

Saurabh

A good gaming laptop will cost about $2500 to 3000.
The other cheaper laptops are not good for gaming. They overheat and the video is not very good.

Guest

Sure… Good for Java/Flash games.

Aaron U

I3s are kinda wimpy, i5s are real good, i7s are the best and fastest.

Don Jeffre

No. I didn't even think they are still selling those.

markikoy

Yes. I recommend intel over amd in cpu.

Kyle

Yeah that's still be good

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