(11-07-2015, 09:46 PM)ENAI Wrote: I know that he has the i3 already, and I'm not saying that it's a bad CPU at all, but the difference compared to the G3258 is still quite clear. If you take a look here: http://anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1027 you can see that the G3258 performs better at stock (at least theoretically in a benchmark) than the 4360, which is still a bit faster than the 4330 (which means that they're at stock pretty much even since hyper-threading gives a 10% boost). That said, I know the 4330 is just fine for Dolphin, but an overclocked G3258 would help get in that "premium-tier" to run every single game smoothly.
And furthermore, he could probably sell the 4330 for more than the Pentium costs. It's just a question of preference, G3258 for Dolphin or 4330 for general computing.
You don't need a G3258 when you have a 4330. That's just dumb. Selling the 4330 and buying a 4690k makes 1000x more sense.