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Hi guys, i am throwing pure gaming rig together for a friend of mine at certain price point and Pentium G3258 with 2x970 SLI seems to be really cool mostly to play battlefield 4, should the bottle neck of the cpu be a real issue or it will be just fine, its going to be a gaming rig with maybe some word and exel work, its a good idea?

 

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You're probably better off going for a (slightly more expensive) i3 with SLI 970's.

Only go for the Pentium if you plan on upgrading to an i5 or something soon (so you don't have to change motherboard)

 

EDIT: do as others suggest, go for 1x970 and an i5. 

Such as the i5 4690K or even i5 4440

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Why do you need 2 970s for BF4?

Get 1 970 and with the saved money get an i5 or i7.

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get an i5. the g3258 is NOT a good gaming CPU and will bottleneck most games. Some games won't even launch if you only have a dual-core CPU.

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BF4 is rather CPU intensive, and optimized for multi core CPUs.

 

Better to forego one 970 now and spend that money on a better CPU.

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Hi guys, i am throwing pure gaming rig together for a friend of mine at certain price point and Pentium G3258 with 2x970 SLI seems to be really cool mostly to play battlefield 4, should the bottle neck of the cpu be a real issue or it will be just fine, its going to be a gaming rig with maybe some word and exel work, its a good idea?

No. G3258, even overclocked, already stutters like crazy with one 970. Two will be hell 

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an i5 and two R9-290s would be better for BF4

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Talk about bottleneck city. My G3258 sits at 4.6GHz 24/7, which apparently means it's a decent chip (considering the voltage I run it at too), and it will cap a 7950/280, which is a decent amount slower than 1 970, let alone 2 of them. Get at least an i3 and the best video card with the money that is left over.

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Hi guys, i am throwing pure gaming rig together for a friend of mine at certain price point and Pentium G3258 with 2x970 SLI seems to be really cool mostly to play battlefield 4, should the bottle neck of the cpu be a real issue or it will be just fine, its going to be a gaming rig with maybe some word and exel work, its a good idea?

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No, get an i5 and 1 970. Or an i3 with a 280

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No, get an i5 and 1 970. Or an i3 with a 280

Why get a 280 if he can afford 2 970s? :P

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It's a very bad idea, the pentium will bottleneck your cards heavily. Get an i5 4690k, if you can afford 2 970s it shouldn't be a problem. In fact, get 2 R9 290Xs instead and use the spared money for the i5.

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Why get a 280 if he can afford 2 970s? :P

An i3 will bottleneck a 970, a 280 is the max gpu I would go with an i3. The best thing to do is to take an i5 with one 970 or to expand his budget for another 970. Or used 780tis?

Edit: or do something with an r9 290

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Hi guys, i am throwing pure gaming rig together for a friend of mine at certain price point and Pentium G3258 with 2x970 SLI seems to be really cool mostly to play battlefield 4, should the bottle neck of the cpu be a real issue or it will be just fine, its going to be a gaming rig with maybe some word and exel work, its a good idea?

what the boys forgot to ask is WHAT SCREEN RESOLUTION ARE YOU GOING TO GAME AT?!

even at 4K though the pentium is too weak for modern games it stutter all the time...you need at the very least a core i5 for such GPU's...if you game at 1080p i'd suggest you get a single GTX 970 and put the rest on a cheap Z97 board that still supports SLI and buy yourself a nice i5-4690K or i7-4790K.

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I5-4440 & 2x 290s.

MUCH BETTER.

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better idea get i5 and one 970 :) = save money

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An i3 will bottleneck a 970, a 280 is the max gpu I would go with an i3. The best thing to do is to take an i5 with one 970 or to expand his budget for another 970. Or used 780tis?

Edit: or do something with an r9 290

You completely missed my point ..

Why get an i3 with a 280 when he can afford 2 970s which is like 600 bucks or perhaps more.

 

He can "obviously" afford an i5 with a 970 and I agree with that, I am not sure why you bring it up.

 

Summarize:

You missed my point.

My point was; Why get something cheaper and a bit worse when you can afford something better.

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You need at least a 4690K for 970 SLI

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Once for all Dual Core processors aren't made for gaming, all new games start to require Quad core processor like Far Cry 4.

 

i3 is 2 cores and 2 threads not 4 cores that the huge mistakes that some noobs and tech noobie do.

 

You could check this article from pc-pepper who talk about it.

 

It would be more convenient to go with just one GTX970 with an i5-4460 but you can up to an i5-4590K or an i7-4670K if you have the budget.

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Talk about bottleneck city. My G3258 sits at 4.6GHz 24/7, which apparently means it's a decent chip (considering the voltage I run it at too), and it will cap a 7950/280, which is a decent amount slower than 1 970, let alone 2 of them. Get at least an i3 and the best video card with the money that is left over.

Would i3 4130 bottleneck 970?

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