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G3258 to 4690k

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I have a Pentium K in my system that I bought a while ago as a place holder until I'd decided what to do. I run it at 4ghz, I have had it up to 4.7 but I passively cool it so I settled on 4 as it doesn't seem to make much gaming difference.

I eventually decided to go for a 4690K with the potential to undervolt it and still run it at 4ghz like the Pentium, with the assumption it would be the better chip long term.

I've had it sat here a week or so and it hasn't been out of the box, granted I'm waiting on another heatsink to arrive before I started testing, but I haven't felt the need to break into it and install it anyway, question is am I likely to get any increased gaming performance if both chips are at the same speed?

I'm seriously considering just sending it back and sticking with the G3258, gaming performance with my 970 doesn't seem to be suffering from a dual core, at least on the games I have installed at the minute:

Sleeping Dogs
Tomb Raider
Dirt 3
Thief
Far Cry 3
Hitman Absolution

All the above don't seem to care about CPU performance, so what's the point?

Do I keep the 4690K or send it back and have £160 in my pocket?
 
You have to expand on that, I play at 1200p with V sync on and all the above games I mentioned run at 60fps with the G3258.

So what will I gain from the 4690K that I am missing at the moment?
 
Newer games will take advantage of the extras cores but playing borderlands 2 on my 5930k against my G3258 both running at 4.2 ghz showed no difference ... So I flogged the x99 system ...

In my view you could sell the pentium and put 45 to the cost of the i5 then your set for new games
 
i5 hands down. The 3258 is a excellent value chip but that's it. Performance is on the i5.

In single threaded games he will gain nothing even 16 gb ram is overkill in a gaming system ... Most of us buy into the numbers but quite frankly only a small percentage of us use the power we have under the hood.

I game when I have time on a 1080p monitor and gaming on my x99 with a 290 v my g3258 with a 7950 3gb was , if I'm honest undetectable ...
 
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Send it back until there's a few games you play or want to that benefit from a qaud.
4690k can only get cheaper hang in until there's a regular game you're playing that needs the quad +.
I'll probably only be playing star wars battlefront this year, that might need a quad.
 
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Send it back until there's a few games you play or want to that benefit from a qaud.
4690k can only get cheaper.

Especially with skylake coming

The g3258 always makes chuckle sat there at 4.2 ghz for under 50 quid... I get more fun out of cheap builds running stuff well than 1k machines I'm flying to New York with the x99 money :D
 
I upgraded my Pentium G3258 @ 4.5ghz to a 4690 ( None K ) the difference was rather dramatic in respect of frame stability, reduction of stuttering and even in loading times.

Personally based on what I have seen myself I would say absolutely yes, swap it over!
 
I've had to go the other way after my 4790 died, yes there is a difference, but so far the Pentiumn has exceeded all expectations! WOT. GTA v and Elite are all playable with reduced frame rates but still mid 40's which for me is good enough.
If Intel send me a new chip I will swap it back but the Pentiumn is awesome for £50 !!
 
Most reviews I've seen suggest you get decent framerates with the pentium but frame times are erratic making it a less enjoyable experience - but of course if you're happy with the smoothness as-is then why change? Based on your own comments I'd say send it back.
 
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