Would the pentium g3258 worth it?

[Willjones]

I'm upgrading a 2010ish dell optiplex 560 to make it more gaming friendly. It currently has a core 2 quad 9550 clocked at 2.83 ghz and I was wondering if the pentium g3258 would make a big enough difference (it may be worse, I'm not sure) for it to be worth it for me to go out and buy a new mobo and the processor or would the 2 less cores hold it back (I will buy a new cooler to overclock if I get the pentium). What do you guys think

 

[modernwar99]

A G3258, cooler, and Z97 mobo (required for OCing) would be the same price or more expensive than an i3 and budget H97 mobo. The i3 will be better in modern games and future games because of its hyperthreading.

 

[sammy sung]

The skinny is, in games/apps that utilize 1-2 cores you'll see some decent benefit, especially if you overclock it hard. Any games that utilizes 3 or more cores, the C2Q will perform mildly better. But this could lessen with a hearty overclock

 

[Blueberries]

There's nothing more important than a strong single / dual core and the G3258 offers that. Depending on your experience with OC, and how good the other parts are (particularily MOBO and PSU) you can push it to be significantly stronger than an i3 in that respect.

For most people an i3-4170 is the ideal which is soon to be replaced by the i3-6100.

 

[Willjones]

A G3258, cooler, and Z97 mobo (required for OCing) would be the same price or more expensive than an i3 and budget H97 mobo. The i3 will be better in modern games and future games because of its hyperthreading.

Thanks, I assume that the i3 performs better than the core 2 quad?

 

[Willjones]

A G3258, cooler, and Z97 mobo (required for OCing) would be the same price or more expensive than an i3 and budget H97 mobo. The i3 will be better in modern games and future games because of its hyperthreading.

Also, someone answered a question on Amazon saying he used a $45 h81 mobo and oc'ed a pentium g3258 to 4.6ghz, so I'm confused (sorry for my lack of knowledge I'm sort of a noob to this)

 

[XxMongermaniacxX]

i used to have the pentium g3258. It does NOT require a z97 board to overclock, the guy above has no idea... It is an amazing processor for the money, and with overclocking , you can have yourself an awesome rig that will destroy games like csgo, lol, dota, etc. More intense games like battlefield are a little bit harder for it, but it manages to perform well still

 

[Blueberries]

A G3258, cooler, and Z97 mobo (required for OCing) would be the same price or more expensive than an i3 and budget H97 mobo. The i3 will be better in modern games and future games because of its hyperthreading.

Thanks, I assume that the i3 performs better than the core 2 quad?

Eons better. The difference between an i3-4170 and a G3258 is exactly what you pay for. It's hard to say which will work better for you, 2 powerful threads is often better than 2 moderate and 2 weak, but an i3 doesn't require an overclock and is guaranteed to work almost as well or better in all situations.

 

[modernwar99]

Also, someone answered a question on Amazon saying he used a $45 h81 mobo and oc'ed a pentium g3258 to 4.6ghz, so I'm confused (sorry for my lack of knowledge I'm sort of a noob to this)

Originally mobo manufacturers (Asus and MSI mainly AFAIK) were enabling overclocking on lower end mobos but Intel cracked down pretty hard. Still possible some of the older mobos available still allow it.

EDIT: Most Asus and some MSI boards still support OCing on non Z97 chipsets.

 

[Blueberries]

Also, someone answered a question on Amazon saying he used a $45 h81 mobo and oc'ed a pentium g3258 to 4.6ghz, so I'm confused (sorry for my lack of knowledge I'm sort of a noob to this)

Originally mobo manufacturers (Asus and MSI mainly AFAIK) were enabling overclocking on lower end mobos but Intel cracked down pretty hard. Still possible some of the older mobos available still allow it.

It's a chipset feature, all the manufacturer has to do is design their firmware to support it.

 

[XxMongermaniacxX]

you can overclock on any lga 1150 board! as long as you update the bios on the ones that didnt originally support it!

 

[Willjones]

So get it, a cooler, and a mobo and it would be better than the current processor if I overclock, right?

 

[Kisianik]

Just to add another 2 cents - you will have huge headache using Dell case due to proprietary front panel connector, so get an new one....

 

[Willjones]

I was planning on buying a new case, but thx anyway

 

[Bassblaster505]

So get it, a cooler, and a mobo and it would be better than the current processor if I overclock, right?

you dont need a big cooler to OC the G3258, im at 4.2gHz on the stock cooler and max temps are around 70C at 1.4V, now if your trying to get like 4.8 or higher, then yeah get a bigger cooler