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Currently i have a Pentium G3258 OC'ed to 4.2 GHz. Now thats rather low for the G3258 but its because i just flopped on the lottery (hopefully you know what that means). I am looking for something that has more cores. The G3258 has 2 cores and runs most games just fine at a higher clock speed. Like BF4 and World of Tanks runs beautifully. But i enjoy games that demand a little more and are more CPU intensive. Like Arma 3, and Rome 2 Total War. So im more looking for something with 4 cores and decent clock speed. If i can OC thats a plus but not needed. Just looking for suggestions and advice. Thanks.

 

System Specs:

 

Gigabyte GTX 760

Gigabyte Z97-HD3

Pentium G3258

Corsair Spec-1

Cooler Master Seidon 120V

Corsair CX600M 

Seagate 1TB 7200rpm

 

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4690K for sure.

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

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Currently i have a Pentium G3258 OC'ed to 4.2 GHz. Now thats rather low for the G3258 but its because i just flopped on the lottery (hopefully you know what that means). I am looking for something that has more cores. The G3258 has 2 cores and runs most games just fine at a higher clock speed. Like BF4 and World of Tanks runs beautifully. But i enjoy games that demand a little more and are more CPU intensive. Like Arma 3, and Rome 2 Total War. So im more looking for something with 4 cores and decent clock speed. If i can OC thats a plus but not needed. Just looking for suggestions and advice. Thanks.

 

System Specs:

 

Gigabyte GTX 760

Gigabyte Z97-HD3

Pentium G3258

Corsair Spec-1

Cooler Master Seidon 120V

Corsair CX600M 

Seagate 1TB 7200rpm

i5 4690k all the way for gaming.  It is literally the best if you care about gaming performance.  If you can't afford that, I'd go for the less expensive, but not overclockable i5 4460.

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Desktop

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CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X  CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15  Motherboard: Asus Prime X370-PRO  RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @3200MHz  GPU: EVGA RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA (+50 core +400 memory)  Storage: 1050GB Crucial MX300, 1TB Crucial MX500  PSU: EVGA Supernova 750 P2  Chassis: NZXT Noctis 450 White/Blue OS: Windows 10 Professional  Displays: Asus MG279Q FreeSync OC, LG 27GL850-B

 

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Thinkpad T420:

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CPU: i5 2520M  RAM: 8GB DDR3  Storage: 275GB Crucial MX30

 

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Ill look into the 4690k. My friend has it and he has very good performance. A bit too expensive for me right now. Ill try overclocking a bit more to see if I can get a little more juice out of the CPU then save up for a new CPU. Thanks for the answers. 

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