Bottleneck?

[MajorTomHehe]

Hello I am thinking of using a Intel Pentium G3258 And Overclocking it to 4.7ghz. What is the best graphics card I can buy without my system getting bottlenecked?

[Clyne]

r7 260x or gtx 750 ti but to oc to 4.7, you will need a water cooler like a h100i

[79wjd]

Pretty much whatever you want. Most games don't need to run on more than two cores anyway, excluding some AAA titles. 

[Aniallation]

Hello I am thinking of using a Intel Pentium G3258 And Overclocking it to 4.7ghz. What is the best graphics card I can buy without my system getting bottlenecked?

In most games, a G3258 will pull past a stock i7. You can run pretty much any graphics card you want.

[MajorTomHehe]

I'm definitely water cooling my cpu but I was thinking r9 280x for the gpu.

[helping]

Pretty much whatever you want. Most games don't run on more than two cores anyway, excluding some AAA titles. 

what year is this, 2005?

[TheRetiredSlave]

Good luck trying to get to 4.7.... Knowing Haswell, that's probably an unrealistic expectation.

 

Get rid of aftermarket cooling and get a midrange i3 or i5.. Having 4 threads at a low speed is just as good and sometimes better (sometimes significantly better) than two threads at a high speed.

 

 

In most games, a G3258 will pull past a stock i7. You can run pretty much any graphics card you want.

 

 

What? In terms of overall performance, it barely pulls past a stock i3!!

 

Look at the gaming benchmarks on page 4. An i3 is a much much better option.

[MajorTomHehe]

Good luck trying to get to 4.7.... Knowing Haswell, that's probably an unrealistic expectation. Tnx for the tip I might end up going with an i5-4690k

Get rid of aftermarket cooling and get a midrange i3 or i5.. Having 4 threads at a low speed is just as good and sometimes better (sometimes significantly better) than two threads at a high speed.

[79wjd]

what year is this, 2005?

Most games can run perfectly fine on two strong cores. 

[MajorTomHehe]

Or should I go with a i5 4690k?

[helping]

Most games can run perfectly fine on two strong cores.

Yes, that's true, but that's also not what you said before.

 

Most modern games utilize more than two cores.

Or should I go with a i5 4690k?

if you can that would be bomb.

[TheRetiredSlave]

Or should I go with a i5 4690k?

 

If you can afford it, a 4690K is a much better option.. On a lower budget, the OC'ing capability of the G3258 is beaten out by the multithreading of most i3s and i5s, and games are starting to take advantage of more and more cores.

 

In all honesty, CPU overclocking doesn't really boost gaming performance by *that* much (in the case of the Pentium, it boost performance by a good margin, but its no better than the i3-4330). Having a stronger CPU in the first place is generally much better than skimping out and hoping to OC.. If you even mention spending money on aftermarket cooling, you would have been better off just getting a i3-4360, i5-4460, or i5-4590 and used the (free) stock cooling. None of those will be a bottleneck, and having four threads/cores is more advantageous than being able to say the phrase "4.7 gigahertz" (IF you can even reach 4.7).

[brob]

In most games, a G3258 will pull past a stock i7. You can run pretty much any graphics card you want.

 

Can you post links to this data please.

[Aniallation]

Can you post links to this data please.

[brob]

 

Thanks. Any idea what gpu was used in the tests?

[Aniallation]

Thanks. Any idea what gpu was used in the tests?

I'm personally not sure about that.

[WereCat]

what year is this, 2005?

I agree.. getting dual core at this day and age is just not worth it. Better get something else.

 

Also what is your budget?