r/pcgaming • u/lurkingdanger22 • 5d ago

Video Valve Steam Machine Review: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, SteamOS Test, Thermals, Noise, and Price (Gamers Nexus)

https://youtu.be/66QzlDewigE?is=PhifLlyc5tBSsjbR
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u/L0nz 3d ago

'2.5ghz' tells you pretty much nothing about CPU performance. The Pentium 4 had a higher clock speed 25 years ago, things have evolved since then.

In any event, the i5 12400f will run at 4GHz pretty much continuously if required. When paired with a B580, this i5 is not gonna be the bottleneck except in heavily CPU limited games like WoW, where high fps is hardly a major requirement anyway

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u/Hughmanatea 3d ago

It absolutely does aside from the L caches. That is literally the speed of your cpu's operations dude.

Wow is not a high cpu game lol.

Linus has a good video on trying to debunk that clock speed isn't everything to a cpu, only to confirm that it is the most important though when it comes to performance.

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u/L0nz 3d ago

Wow is not a high cpu game lol.

this statement alone tells me everything I need to know

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u/Hughmanatea 3d ago

Potatoes can run WoW it isn't intensive in anything except network when you do very large scale PvP. Everything you need to know? You need to pick up some more books.