Which is better? I3 4130 or Intel pentium g3258 OC 4.2ghz

[Garrett Block]

Which is better?
I3 4130 for £85
Intel pentium g3258 4.2ghz for £47 (+ £17 for cpu cooler = £64 total)

Which performs better? is it worth paying 20 pounds extra for the i3? or is the pentium overclocked better than i3?

I will be playing games like DAYZ, minecraft, Far cry 3/4, GTA 5

 

[beni_rohit]

well im not really familiar with the i3
but one thing i can say about the pentium is that you dont need to buy an after market cooler to overclock it
since it has only two cores
i produces very little heat
it has the same stock fan the the i5s
which can handle the heat of the pentium even when overclocked to 4.2(to which it has been limited)
so you can deduct the price for the aftermarket cooler and then make your decision

 

[Garrett Block]

Yes but how hot will it get? i dont want it too be too hot. Is 4.2ghz a high overclock or will it not cause much heat?

 

[beni_rohit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L1irtUW1V8

 

[rolli59]

The I3 will perform better regards of overclocking, some single threaded apps the Pentium may get the win on a high clock but the hyper threading helps when comes to multitasking or running more threads http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,3849.html