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G3258 to mid range i5?

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I have the opportunity to get a i5 4590 for about £100...

Would it be a worthwhile upgrade from a Overclocked G3258?
 
Mainly gaming... The g3258 has been great and even run the single player of Battlefront 1 fantastic. I ventured into multiplayer last night though and was getting about 25fps less than in single player.

This is single player, playing at 1080p AND recording through msi afterburner at the same time.. I thought that MP would be fine based on that but it must be more CPU intensive than I realised

https://youtu.be/kuotKDDiUh8


 
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Not everything needs to be overclocked to see a big difference, the i5 at 3.7 will be a big upgrade over the Pentium especially in CPU intensive game like BF1 online. His mobo does not support overclocking so a k chips is a waste.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Not everything needs to be overclocked to see a big difference, the i5 at 3.7 will be a big upgrade over the Pentium especially in CPU intensive game like BF1 online. His mobo does not support overclocking so a k chips is a waste.
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The motherboard does support of with the g3258, multiplier and voltage.

Would this no longer be available if I did splash on a K sku i5?
 
why does everyone think a cpu has to be overclocked to be good? lol stock cpus run games fine and even with an overclock on cpu how much difference does it really make? 5/8fps at most?
 
Oh well if I NEED a Z class Mb there is no point in looking at a 4670K.. Seems strange when OC functionality is already there on the motherboard.

Going for a 4590 is about £60 lower than a 4670K and £40 lower than regular 4670.
 
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no and its not worth going all out on the K. i would at least wait until kabylake comes out and do a full upgrade then.
 
OK so the question now becomes how much will a 4590S gimp performance compared with a 4590 regular.

If this rig last me 18 months as a stop gap then I'll be happy...and BF1 is likely to be the most demanding game I play.
 
Cheers folks :) looking forward to the quad core goodness now.

Am I right in say games like fallout 4 that my performance will be worse because the pentium is clocked about 300-500mhz faster in single core applications or will most games released over the last couple of years take advantage of HT / More cores?
 
Decided on the i5 4590 (non S), it was a total of £4 more after a bit of haggling.
 
Thanks for that, good info and settles me that I made the right choice on upgrading
 
I had G3258 and i5 4670T. Now on i7 6700k.
My overclocked (4.4GHz) Pentium K was struggling with GTA V (despite using GTX980Ti) even on low settings.
Throwing i5 4670T into my motherboard fixed the pain, and allowed me to play GTA V almost maxed out.

LinusTechTips uploaded a video of comparison in FPS, of CPU, GPU and RAM used. Whether it was 10 core or 4 core CPU, it had 2FPS difference in total (using Titan X and 32GB RAM). Dual core with HT made it quite well (I believe it was 10FPS difference). Standard dual core was getting 38FPS, whereas 4 core and up 80+.

So anything that is quad core will do the job nicely.
 
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