Proves nothing unless there is real benchmark.

A lot of "minimum requirement" for cpu is BS. All you need is to slap on a great GPU. Everytyhing smooth as butter.

Multiplayer shifts the requirements to CPU. Page 1 already got one of the example. DA:I will not work if the CPU isn't quad core too.

Games requiring more CPU is increasing. Bare in mind PS3, PS4 and Xbox One has 8-core CPU. Developers will try to minimize development costs porting the game to PC.

But yeah, some of the minimum requirement is misleading. Like they put much slower AMD vs i5.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2851126/far...-pc-gamers.html

FarCry 4 - bad coding...all the process running in the 3rd core...dunno what the programmers thinking. LOL

DA:I - not too sure, could be bad coding problems..anyway...too farking expensive on Origin and not available on Steam. I will pass. Hates Origin. Maybe get kapitan sparrow version to try out. Don't want to support Origin!!!

Anyway the argument that i5 not sufficient...
I find it BS. i7 also quad cores only, but with HT. So far all benchmarks has shown minimal improvement from going from i5 to i7. And even if games is slowly moving to quad-core as standard, it will take years to become mainstream. Consoles may have a lot of cores, but bear in mind, consoles CPU cores are much simpler and weaker and not as complex as an Intel CPU cores.

basically, one or two games with dodgy coding does not make it mainstream. No point buying an i7 now to be "ready" for the future. When the future is here, then you pay mainstream price to get an i5 with 8 cores or whatever. Not premium price NOW in expecting something that is NOT happening yet.