(04-23-2015, 03:28 AM)NKF98 Wrote: Yes, an OC'd G3258 is vastly superior to a locked i3-4160, and like AON said, by the time that CPU peters out it'll be completely obsoleteIn Dolphin, yes. I think you and AnyOldName3 underplay the hit to other, higher-threaded applications, though. Take a look at this in which a G3258 at 4.2GHz shows severe framedropping in various games, while the i3-4130 keeps up fine.
The Pentium also lacks AVX2, AES-NI (a big problem if you do full-disk encryption), support for RAM speeds greater than 1333, and so on.
I think the Pentium, OCed, is a good choice if you're solely looking for strong emulator performance. If you need a budget all-rounder chip, though, it might have too many drawbacks.