G3258 still good for gaming?

[cassie250]

Hello everybody, I'm planning on building my first pc soon, and I still can't decide (after 3 months) which cpu I should pick. I have a list I like, it is a bit over 600 euros (it's 603 atm) and that is my budget, I can spend 610, tops. Here is the list: (sorry for the site being dutch, but the components and specs should be understandable)

http://azerty.nl/winkelmandje/winkelmandje/?legen=1&product%5B707632%5D=1&product%5B688194%5D=1&product%5B528532%5D=1&product%5B636232%5D=1&product%5B680867%5D=1&product%5B683486%5D=1&product%5B667026%5D=1

I've seen people pair the g3258 with a gtx970 or an r9 280x or higher. I Want the 1150 socket because I'd like to upgrade to an i5 or i7 later. I also want to be able to overclock, that's why I want the g3258. It is cheap and really good when overclocked.

and now the question, Will a dual core still be good for gaming? a lot of games need a quadcore for maxed out of high settings. My friend has an i3 4130 (2 cores, 4 threads) and a gtx 750ti and he can play dayz at high settings 60 fps, which is my goal as well.
So my real goal is: I want to play bf3 on ultra (very easy with a quadcore), and arma 2/dayz mod at reasonable graphic setting, with shadows and medium textures, no AA and that stuff. Those are the 2 games I am concerned about.

sorry for the long post, but I could use some help

 

[nikoli707]

the g3258 has well documented stuttering in games. i really wouldn't consider it a gaming cpu. an i3 is far better and should be your starting point if you can at all afford it.

 

[cassie250]

thanks, but I might just go with the fx6300 in that case. thanks anyways

 

[st3v30]

IF you want to play Arma and dayz you want intel for that cuz of better single thread performance so for that go with i3 and bf3 runs good on both.

 

[cassie250]

IF you want to play Arma and dayz you want intel for that cuz of better single thread performance so for that go with i3 and bf3 runs good on both.

I'm seeing a lot of people say the 2 core will bottleneck *god I hate that word* games like bf3 becuase it likes more cores

 

[GhislainG]

You know that your friend's PC runs the games properly with a less powerful GPU than yours. Why not get an i3-4150 with your GPU? Your system will be slightly faster than it would with the G3258. Read this review and then decide: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,3849-5.html An i3-4330 basically matches the performance of an i3-4150.

 

[bmacsys]

In my honest opinion it never was good. Two cores, lack of instruction sets etc... I would take a pass on anything less than a low level i5.

 

[GhislainG]

In my honest opinion it never was good. Two cores, lack of instruction sets etc... I would take a pass on anything less than a low level i5.

I agree with you, but you might think differently if you had budget constraints.I don't regret the i3-4150 I bought for my son's PC as it works well with the R9 270X. I can't compare with my i5 as I don't game and I use a different GPU, but most benchmarks often don't show a major improvement from an i3 to and i5 (other than a few CPU hungry games and emulators).

 

[LucoTF]

add me to the 'just get an i3' crowd