Pentium G3258 good for gaming?

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Eyan32

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Okay, first of all I'm having doubts if Pentium G3258 is a good option for a budget gaming build.... And should I go with i3 4130 instead of this Pentium G3258?... My option is more on Pentium, and if I go with the pentium, which is a better build? Pentium G3258 with MSI H81M-P33 and GTX 960 or Pentium G3258 with MSI Z97 PC Mate and GTX 750ti? I hope you can help me because 1 month from now, I will buy it... Thanks in advance! 😀
 
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if i was you i wait till xmas and or after it and have the funds for a good build. right now newer skylake will be droping after sept 1. and the h170 chipsets. you may be able to get a newer skylake i5 for a little more then an i3 haswell. if not the haswell cpu may drop a bit and let you get a faster cpu. also the foundry for the newer 14mm gpu chips has just gone full volume. if nvidia gets the chips it needs to stock the next gpu pascal. you may be seeing the pascal gpu in the first three months of 2016. the pascal if the leaks are right will be a lot faster then maxwell gpu.
 
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So, I should go with the i3? If I will I think I'll have the GTX 750ti... And here in my country, Philippines, the i3 is too overpriced... And base on the reviews, the Pentiun G3258 is a good processor with both advantage of budget and performance( as of it is overclockable to 4.7 GhZ or so)... If I will go with MSI Z97 PC Mate,they say it's a good advantage if I'm going to upgrade soon, which I will do but the GTX 750ti maybe a cause of a little bit of bottleneck... I have no choice because I'm on a tight budget and I can't go with i3... So Pentium G3258,GTX 960 and MSI H81M-P33 or Pentium,Z97 Pc Mate and 750ti?! That's the only option I have...
 
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You cant overclock the G3258 without Zx7 mainboard. And if you buy a Zx7 mainboard and a Pentium, you should rather get the other mainboard and use the rest of the money to get a i3.
The Pentium is just a bad CPU. But if you dont have any money at all, then get a Zx7 board and that Pentium, so you can at least overclock that turd (which will still not make it faster than a i3, even if you reach 5 GHz).
 
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So much hatred in the Pentium processor... Doesn't mean it's pentium it's bad... Yeah, pentium ARE absolutely bad but this one is different... It can beat i3s if overclock, it's not about the core... And take note, you can now oc any LGA 1150 with H81 boards, boy you gotta review that...I'm just confuse on an idea of "better gpu and decent mobo or better mobo and decent gpu"...
 
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The problem with the pentium g is its a straight dual core with no hyperthreading - some games won't work on it now full stop - they won't even install let alone play.
Expect this come get worse & become a regular occurrence with titles due to be released in the next year or two.
 
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Then, what build should I go now? $500 is my maximum budget... I don't know better , I'm just sharing information... If I do know better then why don't I know of which is important of mobo and gpu? :v
 
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^ the single core performance of the Pentium is not the issue.
At stock clocks it's still decent ,over clocked it very good.

This review is over a year out of date ,since them a lot of heavily multithreaded titles have been released.
Some will not install on a straight dual core at all ,others suffer absolute lacklustre performance irregardless of the single core grunt of the pentium because it has no reserve threads to use.

The pentium was hyped up beyond all belief on release because of its overclocking ability but that is it's only good point.
It was never a gaming CPU then ,it certainly isn't now!

For similar money an amd 860k offers close to the same single core performance but is a real quad core & a better choice.

 
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There might a few select game titles in which the G3258 is relatively poor (and there may well be more in the future but I don't have a crystal ball). At the moment though, the G3258 vs the best i3 (i3-4170 same price as the 4130 better in every way) is a very close call:

1. Both CPUs G3258 and 4170 only have two physical cores, yes there is hyperthreading on the i3 - but under severe workloads that will not improve performance by a lot, certainly not by a factor of two.

2. When overclocked the G3258 has 20% faster single core performance than the i3.

3. Overclocked Quad core performance on the 4170 is only 15% faster than the G3258.

4. The G3258 costs half as much as a 4170!


So - I would say, if on a tight budget, the G3258 is still a very good option because it leave more cash to upgrade your GPU which is far more relevant to gaming performance than the CPU.

This build is based on a G3258 + 960:
UserBenchmarks: Desktop 74%, Gaming 52%, Workstation 34%
CPU: 76.9% Intel Pentium G3258
GPU: 52.9% Nvidia GTX 960
SSD: 91.9% Samsung 850 Evo 120GB
HDD: 86.1% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB


And this one is based on a 4170 + 750ti:
UserBenchmarks: Desktop 61%, Gaming 31%, Workstation 32%
CPU: 77.1% Intel Core i3-4170
GPU: 28.9% Nvidia GTX 750 Ti
SSD: 52.4% Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB
HDD: 48.6% WD Blue 500GB (2008)


 
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