Quote:I said Playable. Not full speed.
I played through TP a few years ago on a Core2Duo. Most of the game was playable, but Hyrule Field and various other spots were really slow. So slow that I probably skipped lots of stuff because I didn't want to explore in slo-mo. Of course it wouldn't be so bad with any newer CPU, but my point is that you want it to run as fast as possible.
Quote:Also look at any review for the Pentium G3258. At stock clocks it cant keep up with the i3-4130 and at overclocked speeds its just as fast.
I did look at some reviews, and the hyperthreading in the i3 does give it a slight advantage in PC games that can take advantage of 3 or more cores. It varies by game, but the speed boost is minimal, and doesn't even matter if the G3258 is overclocked. In Dolphin though, It's 36% improvement in speed. The two systems are about the same price. They both make the same amount of noise. The G3258 though, will run Dolphin significantly faster. Not only that, but you could drop a Broadwell CPU in that Z97 board when they come out if you wanted to.
Quote:More and more games are starting to use 8 cores due to the consoles being 8 cores so there really is no point of getting a dual core in this day and age.
The i3-4130 is a dual core CPU.