Intel Pentium Running games?

[KJoeShow]

I was thinking of doing a small build for a friend on a budget who want to later upgrade but I was wondering if and Intel Pentium G3258 would be able to run games with a dedicated graphics card because I remember reading something about some games unable to run with lower cpu's

Thanks in advance

[Theguywhobea]

I use it and it works fine, it can be a bottleneck in some high end games with high end graphics cards, but I wouldn't worry too much about it.

[KJoeShow]

I use it and it works fine, it can be a bottleneck in some high end games with high end graphics cards, but I wouldn't worry too much about it.

So would it be fine running something like Dying light or something like that?

[Lewellyn]

Certain game engines will utilize 3-4 CPU cores and perform far superior than a 2 core CPU. You will still see performance increase in multitasking if moving from 2 to 4 cores on the intel platform. If the intent is to upgrade in the future it might be a good idea.

[KJoeShow]

Certain game engines will utilize 3-4 CPU cores and perform far superior than a 2 core CPU. You will still see performance increase in multitasking if moving from 2 to 4 cores on the intel platform. If the intent is to upgrade in the future it might be a good idea.

yea, he's wanting to upgrade later on when he has more money for it

[Lewellyn]

So would it be fine running something like Dying light or something like that?

 

Last time I checked Dying light is heavily unoptimized so it's harder to say. I don't know if that's the best game to do a comparison with.

[Lewellyn]

yea, he's wanting to upgrade later on when he has more money for it

 

I started with a pentium g(something) and got an i5 quad core. It's a decent plan if you can deal with some AAA games not running full strength until you have the money. Although it might also be good to wait for the money to buy a quad core in the first place.

[Decon]

great for most games; can be sure that it won't bottleneck in some AAA games tho

[Si3Rra_7]

Last time I checked Dying light is heavily unoptimized so it's harder to say. I don't know if that's the best game to do a comparison with.

They did patch the performance a couple times. Totalbiscuit said that in his "wtf is" . I'd get this and a really cheap mobo like a h81 (which can still oc ) and then upgrade to something like a skylake i5 or even broadwell if he has the money by then

[dandrix]

Itll bottleneck most AAA games, especialy badly optimised ones like Dying Light, Watch Dogs etc.

[Badger906]

So would it be fine running something like Dying light or something like that?

dying light runs like a bag of spanners on anything! one minute I'll be getting 120fps the next 5! it's horendous at times! and core 1 of my cpu is always maxed out while the others hover at like 70%

[sgtcool]

I was thinking of doing a small build for a friend on a budget who want to later upgrade but I was wondering if and Intel Pentium G3258 would be able to run games with a dedicated graphics card because I remember reading something about some games unable to run with lower cpu's

Thanks in advance

pentium<i3 pentium is for laptops

isnt i3 for budget builds?

gaming pcs dont usually cost only 400€

[totjup5]

Considering some games coming out won't even launch on a dual core I'd go for a quad core AMD chip like a 760k or something instead. Plus the multitasking performance will be better.

[KJoeShow]

pentium<i3 pentium is for laptops

isnt i3 for budget builds?

gaming pcs dont usually cost only 400€

I'm going for a Pentium since there is a guy in town selling some for cheap right now

[SteveGrabowski]

Itll bottleneck most AAA games, especialy badly optimised ones like Dying Light, Watch Dogs etc.

 

I have a G3258 (though thankfully replaced now with a quadcore) and I can confirm this. Tomb Raider, Skyrim, and Shadow of Mordor all ran really badly for me, though it was with a higher end GPU (GTX 970). Far Cry 4 would just hang in a black screen. The only relatively new AAA game that I played that didn't get bottlenecked is Bioshock Infinite, which kept my GPU usage in the mid to high 90% range almost all the time even with both cores pinned at 100%. Now obviously it's stupid to pair a 970 and a G3258 though (I was only doing it for a week while waiting to have money to get my Xeon to pair with it).