>>285052>>285034Two cores is not enough for gaming, and Pentiums have two cores. That's the general consensus.
This Pentium, however, has two cores plus Hyperthreading, making it identical to an i3-7300T. The only difference between the G4560 and the i3-7300T is that the i3-7300T has better on-board graphics (which you're not going to be using because you have a GPU).
In Hyperthreading, each core pretends to be two cores, and harvests instructions from both threads to keep its execution units busier. Depending on how compatible the two threads are with being hyperthreaded, a hyperthreaded processor can be 40-80% faster than a plain single core.
Games are incredibly compatible with hyperthreading, because they're all written and optimised for consoles (which all have hyperthreaded processors*) before being ported to PC. The most important bits of AAA games are hand-optimised for hyperthreaded processors, to get as close to the theoretical maximum as humanly possible. This means that adding hyperthreading makes your processor massively better at games.
I don't think your i5 is $130 better than a G4560. I think you should get the Pentium.
* AMD's marketing team will say "they're totally real actual cores REE", but they're not, and if they were, they wouldn't currently be fighting a class-action lawsuit about saying that.
