Pentium G3258 and MSI GTX 950 Gaming Stable?

[Bannan]

Im getting a MSI GeForce GTX 950 Gaming in about few days now and I just wonder if it would be stable (Not bottlenecking) with my Intel Pentium G3258 clocked to 4GHz?

Im going to play CS:GO for the most and i want to play it on the highest settings in 1080p with at least 150fps or higher.

PC Specs

• Corsair Carbide Spec-02
• MSI B85-G43 Gaming
• Intel Pentium G3258 4GHz
• Intel Stock Cooler
• Corsair Vengeance 8GB
• MSI GeForce GTX 950 Gaming
• Seagate Barracuda 1T HDD
• Cooler Master B700 PSU
• Windows 10 Home 64-bit

 

[Barty1884]

CS:GO (as far as I know) can & will utilize multiple cores when they're available (so dual + hyper threading, quad or quad + HT). So, on the face of it, your CPU will hold you back on CS:GO, but whether it would to a noticeable degree is not certain.

You can get better performance from your CPU with a better OC. The G3258 can reasonably get to around 4.6-4.7GHz and sometimes beyond, but you need high end aftermarket cooling for that.

Just confirm for me, you've overclocked from 3.2 to 4.0GHz on the Stock Intel cooler??? How are your temps looking?

 

[geofelt]

In a few days, you will know the answer better than anyone here.

If your case has decent airflow, I think there are a few more multipliers available to your overclock.
Even with your stock cooler.

The key is the quality of your chip, and how high you can go before exceeding a vcore of 1.30.

I expect you will do just fine.

 

[10tacle]

Counter Strike is an update of a very old gaming engine that dates from HL2 twelve years ago and is CPU bound. The good thing about that is that it actually significantly responds to CPU speed increases, unlike most games today. Today's games are coded more on GPU power than CPU power, especially at higher resolution and quality settings. Back in the late 90s and into the '00s, gamers could get a lot of extra "free" FPS by just overclocking the CPUs if we didn't have the budget for a new GPU.

The CPU and GPU are a pretty good match actually for 1080p gaming in this example. Neither will bottleneck each other, especially with a CPU overclock. FYI the maximum cores CS:GO supports from the source code are three officially, but that can be unlocked for four (or more) core CPUs with the game start .exe command line in Steam.