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Intel Pentium G3258 vs AMD Athlon x4 860k

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I know I really should't ask this, because there is gonna be a lot of fanboying gonna happen, but I'm just gonna do it.

 

Which one is better Pentium G3258 or Athlon x4 860k?

 

Personally I thin the Pentium is better, cause I't gives you better upgrading possibilities, but I would like to hear some of your opinions on it :)

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pentium for single core things and as a stepping stone

X4 for multithreaded games and general use

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G3258 if you're going to upgrade within a year.

860k if you're not going to upgrade.

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860K is better short term / long term if you wish not to upgrade.

the pentium is in a pretty sorry state at this moment, I would only reccomend it as a stepping stone to at LEAST an i5.

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upgrading wise, pentium. but if youre gaming, then probably the 860k because of those 2 more cores. They are very similar in performance 

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It depends.

 

If you plan to upgrade quick, get the Pentium. If you don't, get neither and get at least a Core i3 (I don't mention AMD's FX chips as they are 2+ years old and the FX 6300 is outperformed in games by a Haswell i3.)

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