its good for normal usage such as browsing but it is not processor meant for gaming. of course you can play games like fc3 , me3 ,gta 4 etc with medium graphics or low graphics(WITH A DESCENT GRAPHICS CARD).if you want games such as rivals ,watch dogs etc.i wouldnt recommend it. it all depends upon the way it is used .another problem with it is overclocking. I STILL RECOMMEND NEW PC BUYERS AND MEDICORE GAMERS TO GO FOR I3 OR I5 , NOT THIS ONE.IT IS ALWAYS BEST TO BUY THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY.IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BUDGET PROCESSOR NOT MEANT FOR GAMING,THIS WONT DISAPPOINT YOU.

First of all, i3 is different architecture. If this atom and i3 has same config. even then i3 will beat it 9 ways to sunday. And second of all, the difference will be night and day. With i3, you getter better intergrated graphics to run 1080p videos so you can run it as htpc also. But not this. Only advantage is power consumption. I am giving it a 3 star for it performance/power. @Vinay. Understandable man. But for a little less more , you are compromising a lot more. I am a college student. And If you are on a budget, you would want to get once and get the best when you do.That is all I'm saying. You could also check out 5300 for the same price. Which has a better Graphic(nearly twice better infact!)

no doubt this is a best buy for basic works....but some reviewer here listed a long difference between i3 3220 and this one....lolz...bro just copy and pasting from reviewing sites wont make you a wizard....even when i3 3220 has 2 threads disabled and downclocked at 2.9ghz it will beat this processor in all ways....its instructions per cycles (ipc) make it superior from all these ivybridge or haswell pentiums....and i donno how that reviewer suggested this one to save money and buy a better gpu....for what???bottlenecks like s*it....this processor cannot even handle r7 240 properly without bottleneck....my friend has a g2030 and bought r7 250 tried to play watchdogs....ohh god its horrible stucks for everysecond....then upgraded to i3 now flying in air so dont mislead okay....and these pentiums use mobile version of hd 2500 if hd 2500 is crap then how can its mobile version comes handy???forgot to say i3 any version can handle win 8.1 smoothly than pentiums because windows recognize i3 as a quad core.... but sure if you are on a budget then oh for sure just buy this it wont dissapoint you !