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2 minutes ago, jcjordyn120 said:

TBH I'd go with the Pentium. It's really not terrible for gaming - can play decent settings with something like a RX 480. Can also look at G3258 even though it's last gen - it's actually pretty popular.

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Just now, jcjordyn120 said:

By the way. I'm going to be using mainly Linux on this build. In a windows/Linux dual boot. 

I'd still stick with Pentium. OS shouldn't affect CPU choice too much honestly.

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8 minutes ago, jcjordyn120 said:

I'm going to be using this motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16813132646

well that board only supports the Pentium so its your only choice here lol, would have voted Pentium any day of the weak anyway because of upgradability in the future because AMD you can go up a bit but you get SO MUCH MORE with an I5 then a FX 8xxx for about the same price

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7 minutes ago, jcjordyn120 said:

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The G3258 is a really great overclocker. You do need the 1150 board though. And of course that means you can upgrade to a 4690k/4790k later if you want to.

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Just now, lolsnorXD said:

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I don't think that they have separate backup cores perse but they are better overall lol.

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5 hours ago, arch_linuxos said:

The G3258 is a really great overclocker. You do need the 1150 board though. And of course that means you can upgrade to a 4690k/4790k later if you want to.

A board like this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128822&cm_re=motherboard-_-13-128-822-_-Product

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1 minute ago, jcjordyn120 said:

If you're going to OC you need a Z chipset, not B or H. Something like this would work :).

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Just now, jcjordyn120 said:

i'm trying to do a micro atx build.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128716&cm_re=z97_micro_atx-_-13-128-716-_-Product a little more expensive but here's one 

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http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2634&cmp[]=2392&cmp[]=2311

 

Here's a synthetic benchmark comparison between the 2 processors you were looking at and also a AMD A8-7600, which goes for about $10 more than the Pentium but is also quad core and has a bit higher performance.

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3 minutes ago, luckydog32 said:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2634&cmp[]=2392&cmp[]=2311

 

Here's a synthetic benchmark comparison between the 2 processors you were looking at and also a AMD A8-7600, which goes for about $10 more than the Pentium but is also quad core and has a bit higher performance.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-G3258-vs-AMD-A8-7650K-APU/2434vsm27184

 

This site says the Pentium G3258 still outperforms a nicer A8 than that one :).

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11 minutes ago, arch_linuxos said:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-G3258-vs-AMD-A8-7650K-APU/2434vsm27184

 

This site says the Pentium G3258 still outperforms a nicer A8 than that one :).

In single core performance, in overall performance the A8 seems to be a bit faster.

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