Pentium G3258 enough for a budget gaming/productivity PC?

[paradise997]

Hi everyone. I've been looking for a pc for a while now and already have the case (CM Cosmos SE) and mobo (z97 MSI gaming 7). I've started my second year at college and am studying A2 computing, in which we have a project to produce. I currently don't have a pc at all and I absolutely need one ASAP for programming in Visual Studio 2013. I was initially looking to spend around £1500 on my build (ya know, i7 4790k, 2x Gtx 970 in SLI etc.) but because of the need for ASAP I have come up with this build for just under £450:

Pentium K G3258
8GB G.skill ripjawz 1600mhZ
CM gm series 650W PSU
WD blue 1TB HDD (I will upgrade to SSD next month, obviously..)
Asus VN247H LED 1ms monitor.

That's it. I will buy a Gtx 970 next month as well as an SSD and all the fancy peripherals. But, will this be good enough for the time being?

 

[InvalidError]

Unless you plan to build really large projects in VisualStudio, the G3258 will be fine for that. Most games do not make much use of more than two cores so it will be ok for most gaming as well. You can always get the i7-4790 or its Broadwell successor next year if you feel like you need it.

 

[geofelt]

Love the G3258.
A good plan.

Buy a oem cooler to allow you to oc it perhaps to the 4.0-4.3 level.
A $30 cm hyper212 would be fine.

Coolermaster quality is iffy. Buy a 500w-650w Seasonic, xfx, antec psu. It will run a future card as good as a GTX980.
You are ok to run integrated graphics for a while.

I suggest you defer on the hard drive and use a ssd initially.
It is easy to add a hard drive later if you need storage room.
Migrating to a ssd from a large hard drive may require you to do a clean install on the ssd, and that requires reinstallation of programs.. A real pain.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, that will work. I'm creating a new build for a christmas present based on the G3258.