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Not particularly, I just bought the g3258 since I managed to get it for £30 and was quite a large saving and a big step down price wise from the £90+/- i3's and wondered if I would see a boost even in multithreaded applications with the pentium being newer and more efficient.

Currently have a somewhat old Athlon II X4 620 in my current PC, and have picked up a G3258 cheaply as my machine is starting to get a little tired and unreliable. Just wondering if this is more of a sidegrade than anything? I'm assuming a large increase in single threaded applications, but...

I plan on upgrading CPU/Mobo/RAM at some point in the near future, and thought the 7850 would still somewhat be relevant when I get around to doing this, thank you for the feedback!

After not upgrading my GPU for a couple of years i'm looking to upgrade from my HD4850 for gaming at 1920 x 1080. Budget is around +/- £100 and have been looking at the Gigabyte 7850 2GB for £109 but wondered whether or not my current PSU was suitable...