The best example to bring this idea home is $70(~$40 used) Pentium G3258 on ~$30 motherboard. It gets single thread score of 2400, so almost top of the chart. I

The best example to bring this idea home is $70(~$40 used) Pentium G3258 on ~$30 motherboard. It gets single thread score of 2400, so almost top of the chart. In single core games like World of Tanks (python ...) there is no differenve between this bottom of the barrel CPU and i7 *overclocked to 4.2