alextheblue :
The 35W models look like they'd be good for compact low-power machines. HT would help them out tremendously. These chips would be great for office machines and other inexpensive general-purpose machines.
I really wanted to like the i3-7350K... but at that price... no way. Maybe if it was substantially cheaper, or if the OC-friendly boards were cheaper, or both. But as it stands I agree with some of the other posts - you're better off getting an i5 with 4 physical cores and a more affordable mainboard.
Yeah, that $168 suggested price that's currently being displayed for the i3 7350K is absolutely ridiculous. Add a cheap 212 EVO to that price for overclocking and you're already at the price of the i5 7500 (more than the i5 7400), and that's before you've paid for the overclockable motherboard.
Where I think these Pentiums might offer something really interesting is for those people who don't quite have the budget to get to an i5 build upfront without making huge sacrifices on the GPU. In the past, we've really had to recommend an i3 build, which is okay up-front, but come GPU upgrade time in 2-3 years, the i3 is probably not going to have the grunt for a new GPU and so that person really has to start looking at a substantial (and expensive) multi-component upgrade if not an entirely new rig.
If you can get a Pentium with HT for ~$60, then it's going to serve as an *okay* gaming CPU for an interim period. So the person in the situation above can grab the rig they really want and put up with the HT Pentium while they save for an i5 or i7 which should last them a good few years in the long run. Of course you're better off doing it all up front and not wasting $60 on a Pentium, but sometimes budgets are fixed and this offers a potential avenue to a better long term solution while spreading the cost over time. Might be a better choice for some.