Cores, Sockets and the Cost Behind the Chip
A processor at this price decides frame consistency far more than it decides peak frame rate. Six cores and twelve threads is the working floor for current releases, and the difference between a good budget chip and a poor one shows up in the 1% lows during a busy scene rather than in the number on the benchmark chart.
Read the platform, not only the part. The socket you pick fixes which memory generation the board takes, how much that board costs, and whether a faster chip can ever drop into it later. A model without built-in graphics saves money and removes your only way to get a picture on screen if the card fails, which is a trade worth making deliberately.
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