Best Gaming CPUs: $100 And Under(The prices of CPUs are going down these days, the prices may not be accurate)

	BEST GAMING CPUS: $100 AND UNDER
	Best Gaming CPU for $80	Best Gaming CPU for $100
Product	Athlon II X4 640	Phenom II X4 965
Your Price	$80	$100
Analysis	With modern games able to take advantage of more than two processing cores, AMD's old quad-core chips, such as the Athlon II X4 and Llano-based A6 and A8 APUs, look better now compared to Intel's dual-core models than they did before. As a result, we're cutting the Pentium G860 from our recommendation list. The Athlon II X4 640 takes its place. Running at 3 GHz, this CPU performs roughly on par with the A8-3870K for less money. Use the savings on a discrete graphics card.	In Gaming Shoot-Out: 18 CPUs And APUs Under $200, Benchmarked, the Phenom II X4 makes a significant comeback compared to its competition, since many of the newer games we tested are able to utilize multiple threads. Sporting 6 MB of L3 cache and an unlocked ratio multiplier, AMD's Phenom II X4 965 is a solid performer at its stock clock rates, and it has some room to scale up with overclocking, too. Thanks to the long life of AMD's Socket AM3/AM3+ interface, you can buy this chip today and then upgrade to an FX model down the road (though we don't really see much reason to do so now, based on the FX's gaming performance).
Performance (indexed to 100%) StarCraft II Skyrim Far Cry 3 Average
Architecture	Propus	Deneb
Frequency (Turbo)	3.0 GHz	3.4 GHz
Cores (Threads)	4 (4)	4 (4)
Cache (L1, L2, L3)	4 x 128 KB, 4 x 512 KB	4 x 128 KB, 4 x 512 KB, 6 MB
Integrated GPU	N/A	N/A
Memory Support	DDR3-1333	DDR3-1333
TDP	95 W	125 W
Process	45 nm	45 nm
Socket	AM2+/AM3/AM3+	AM2+/AM3/AM3+
Your Price	$80	$100