PC Build Confusion!!

[TheHumanKidd]

So I'm building by first build and i decided after long hours to go with a $600 budget..I've already bought my case Hard drives and power supply..But i'm stuck i wanna Buy the G3258 then upgrade a bit later(the cheaper option.) but people are syaing that its going to bottleneck the GTX 970 and I wont be able to handle bottlenecks in games such as BF4 and BFH which are the games I want to play.
I wanna get it in time for Hardline or at least soon after launch..btw i'm 14 so the cheaper option would be a bit better for me

 

[Darthutos]

The Pentium is about 70 bucks. It has 2 cores of which supposedly every report says you can overclock to rival an i3.
Also the BF series are supposedly CPU intensive.
Looking at the Gaming CPU Hierachy, it is on par with Core2Quads and AMD Phenom X4s and CPU are supposedly to be performing the same for 3 tiers according to the guy who wrote the hierachy. Any upgrade should be a haswell i5 or a FX series from AMD.

Will it bottleneck? Maybe. Depends on if BFH utilizes more cores than 2.

But your 600 should be stretched pretty thin what with PSUs, HDDs, and a case.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about it, but if you really can squeeze a little more you can buy the AMD FX 4350 (supposedly gaming is performing on par with their latest FX 9590/8350 series.) for only about 115, so 40 dollars more or there about.

 

[ImDaBaron]

BF4 probably wont be very pleasant on the G3258 and it for sure will bottleneck that GPU

 

[TheHumanKidd]

Would a FX 6300 Be much better

 

[TheHumanKidd]

Or an i3

 

[Karsten75]

If you do not want to bottleneck your GPU, you will have to step up at least to a low-end Intel Core i5 processor. I can't speak precisely for AMD CPUs, but I do believe they run out of steam somewhere along the line competing with the Intel i5 series.

See this chart.

Intel Core i3 processors cannot be overclocked. Only the top processors in the i5/i3 series can be overclocked. The Intel Anniversary Pentium can be overclocked quite a lot to yield very respectable results on some high-end games.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-b81-cheap-overclocking,3888.html

 

[TheHumanKidd]

Ik this but i'm still looking to upgrade later..Most likely when broadwell comes out

 

[ImDaBaron]

I would go with the I3 4130 and up if you can afford it.