(06-13-2014, 10:42 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote:(06-13-2014, 09:20 AM)DatKid20 Wrote:(06-13-2014, 09:10 AM)DJBarry004 Wrote: If you ain´t going to overclock, you can´t pair any i3 with the Z97. We still recommend you the unlocked Haswell i3 for better results on Dolphin.
*Unlocked Pentium.
Also if you are going to be doing any PC gaming I can't recommend the Unlocked Pentium to you. It is very crippled compared to even the i3 that you want.
Hexus benched it at 4.4 GHz (the highest they could get with the stock cooler) and it outperformed a stock 4770K and 4670K in every game (although the bottleneck was GPU-side, so they were all really similar). Anyway, there's no reason an overclocked Pentium shouldn't be part of a budget build that can't stretch to the 4670K.
http://www.digitalstormonline.com/unlocked/intel-pentium-g3258-gaming-benchmarks-idnum299/
It's slower then the i3-4330 in Battlefield 4 when at 4.6ghz and in Crysis 3 is just equal. That's pretty pathetic for a overclocked processor. Lets not even go into how bad it is in Watch Dogs. It would be better to get the i3 then the G3258 for Multimedia and Dolphin. He said he didn't want to overclock.