G3258 Bottleneck?

[kingofthefall]

Hi all.

 

I've been wanting to do a build for literally years now  (gaming on my PS3 isn't cutting it any more and my frankly athsmatic AMD laptop is struggling to play most games at 720p) so I've compiled a build which is in my budget of £500 (about $750 US Dollars or $932 Canadian Dollars)

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/X3R7Hx

 

(I'm also torn on the GPU. Should I join the Green Team and go with a slightly cheaper GTX 960 or should I stick with the Red Team and the 290x)

 

However, I have a question. Would the G3258 be a significant bottleneck for the GPU? I know LTT posted a video with a G3258 paired with a 260x but would it work with a slightly beefier 290? I do intend to overclock the CPU (and possibly even the GPU seeing as I'm going to be running this build for the next few years) as per Linus' suggestion.

 

Oh and also, what do you guys think of the build?

 

Thanks in advance guys

 

(P.S: Just a quick edit before someone points it out, I chose an unknown brand name RAM because I wanted to run in dual channel)

 

EDIT: I changed the spec a bit (XFX 280x, a SSD and a Z97 mobo), any thoughts?

[Castdeath97]

Not much if at all for the 960, but the r9 290 most definitely yes it will bottleneck. Try the i5 4460 if you want to go to the r9 290 route.

[kingofthefall]

Cheers for the prompt reply man, just wanted to clarify that before I actually go and spend money

[Syte]

As a person who has literally put over 100+ Pentium G3258s into builds (and never with a single complaint) "bottleneck" is the wrong word to use. If you're playing Battlefield 4, for example, the difference between a Pentium-K and 4790k would be noticeable. My suggestion is to work within whatever budget you have. If you have the money the i5 4590 is what I consider to be the sweet spot right now for i5s if you pair it with a B85 motherboard and then pair that sucker with a GTX 960, 970, 290, or 290x depending on preference, prices, and remaining budget.

 

The Pentium-K gives you a lot of cost-performance in the $300-800 (CAD) total build budget range but if you can afford the i5 upgrade and aren't the world's biggest overclocking your money might better be spent on the i5, like I said it all depends.  The two most popular Pentium-K builds I do are a budget R9 270 MSI Twin Frozr build for around $550 CAD (incld. SSD, windows, assembly, etc) and a GTX 960 EVGA FTW for around $800 CAD. What I'm trying to get at here is that breakpoints  are important to look for, the point where your money is best spent. 

 

Perfect examples of what NOT to do for a personal performance gaming rig would be a build with a Titan X and a G3258 or a build with an R7 250x and an i7 4790k as both lean far too heavily to one side of the spectrum. 

 

tl;dr

 

The overall "best" (average performance across all gaming titles) in $932 CAD range I'd recommend either an i5 + GTX 960 or Pentium-K + 290/290x/970, though if you can somehow squeeze out the extra budget to get an i5 with a 290/970 you're golden.

[SWAGGA]

get an i5 4460 instead with an r9 280x/gtx 960 if htats not possible then an r9 280

[grayblizzard]

If you can just instead save money on a cheaper case and put that towards your cpu

[Jamdog]

Also, the motherboard isn't very good at overclocking so you may want to step up to a Z series motherboard if you have the money.