RX 480 with G3258??

[siviprime]

I have a secondary system with a Pentium G3258 in it, initially paired with an R9 380. The 380 became defective after just under a year and Amazon agreed on giving me a refund instead of a replacement.

Should I wait for an AMD RX 480 to put in this system and use as a Steam box for my living room? It's predicted to hit the shelves at around £160 which is coincidentally the same price I paid for the 380.

 

[Geekwad]

I have a HTPC with the 3258 in it as well, and was going to upgrade from the 950 to a 480 when it comes out too. I think it will be a good match. May have to consider an i3 for it sometime though.......the 3258 does well streaming, but as a stand-alone it leaves some of the library on the table.

 

[BlueCat57]

I just built two 3258 based systems since I want to continue using Windows 7 for another couple of years. Originally I had planned on doing Skylake builds but the 3258 builds were about $100 cheaper.

Right now I don't have discrete GPUs. I was planning on buying GTX960's. Now that the RX 480's are on the way I'll wait for those. They are more video card than those systems can handle and the 3258 probably won't do VR, but for maybe $30 or $40 more than a 960 the 480 will last into the next system, maybe.

Now, if the 960's drop to say $100 on Black Friday, I'll go ahead and buy those since I won't be doing VR anytime soon. Don't plan on 4K or heavy gaming either.

Just some thoughts.

 

[Jlg823]

The G3258 is an amazing chip, don't get me wrong, however more and more games are not supporting dual core CPU's anymore. The Far Cry 4 and Primal are perfect examples of this. If you could wait till Black Friday or After Christmas sales, etc. Try to get an i5, I know it's pushing it, but It would save you the hassle in the future and you could run slightly heavier games than with the G3258. Also the waiting for the rx480 is a MUST since it's supposed to out-perform the r9 380 and it's "VR Ready" meaning it almost beats out the GTX 1070 for only around £160.

 

[technoholic]

will work but will be moderate to high (depending on the scenario) bottleneck from the CPU. at best the 3258 would perform similar to a stock i3 only when overclocked. I'd suggest an i5 4460 as the bare minimum for an RX 480