(04-19-2015, 04:30 AM)biervat Wrote: i had to make the same decission, it was either modern gaming with an i5/i3 or pretty zelda, i went with zelda.Yeah well- I want good Dolphin performance but not at the expense of upcoming games.
(04-19-2015, 04:36 AM)mimimi Wrote: I think the G3258 will beat the i3-4160 even in multi threaded situations, if it's clocked above 4 Ghz.The benchmarks disagree with you TBH, take a look at the Battlefield 4 figures: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8232/overclockable-pentium-anniversary-edition-review-the-intel-pentium-g3258-ae/4
Quote:The general rule for hyperthreading seems to be that you can get up to a 1/3 boost in multi threaded applications. So if you would overclock the G3258 to 4.8 Ghz, it would be faster in every situation, even the worst case for a non hyperthreading cpu, and it would be overwhelmingly faster than the i3 in single/dual thread situations.Like you say, though, it still lacks AVX and others. And that's *if* I can get it to 4.8. I'd probably need an aftermarket cooler to get to that point, and I might just lose the silicon lottery.
Quote:If you want to play GTA V with cpu intensive options(more people and higher viewing distance) without lag, i suggest getting an unlocked i5/i7.Sure, but if I could afford an i5 I wouldn't have made this thread
