jdm_freek Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 (edited) I was thinking of giving my son my AMD quad core and picking up A g3258 I'm just curious as to how much it will bottleneck my r9 290the plus siDe is I will be able to get a mini ITX motherboard and case to do a small form factor build and better upgrade path Edited November 11, 2014 by jdm_freek Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarWeeny Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 It will get bottlenecked quite a bit, and not only the card, but the more recent game really like multi-cores. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_cow Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 Yeah the g3258 isnt for high end video cards or games that benfit from multicore. You could just get a i5 instead of a 8350 and be all good. I just paired a g3258 ooced to 4.5ghz with a gtx 750ti and it got the same results with a i7 4770k. The gtx 770 on the other hand took a hard hit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdm_freek Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 ok makes sense to me maybe I'll just go with a 4670 K instead ;-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 Nothing wrong with what you have, why not get your son the g3258? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 Nothing wrong with what you have, why not get your son the g3258? Read the original post... "Side benefit is a better upgrade path" for him in a SFF build. He is looking to justify the spend to the wife so he gets the upgrade as I read between the lines. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 It will get bottlenecked quite a bit, and not only the card, but the more recent game really like multi-cores.Which games? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarWeeny Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 It will get bottlenecked quite a bit, and not only the card, but the more recent game really like multi-cores.Which games? Watchdogs assassins creed unity ryse: son of rome call fo duty: advanced warfare crysis 3 dragon age: inquisition witcher 3 any recent rts game any recent mmo game shadow of mordor far cry 4 and so on. I included non released games in there as well since they ask a quad-core as a minimum, so i expect a duo-core to be bottlenecked by it quite a bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 Watchdogs assassins creed unity ryse: son of rome call fo duty: advanced warfare crysis 3 dragon age: inquisition witcher 3 any recent rts game any recent mmo game shadow of mordor far cry 4 I haven't seen any benchmarks showing this yet - if you've found some I'd like to read them. Tech Report did a pretty in-depth review of the 3258 and it stomped on the 8350 in every test in terms of 99th percentile frame times (and that included Crysis 3). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarWeeny Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 Watchdogs assassins creed unity ryse: son of rome call fo duty: advanced warfare crysis 3 dragon age: inquisition witcher 3 any recent rts game any recent mmo game shadow of mordor far cry 4 I haven't seen any benchmarks showing this yet - if you've found some I'd like to read them. Tech Report did a pretty in-depth review of the 3258 and it stomped on the 8350 in every test in terms of 99th percentile frame times (and that included Crysis 3). Assuming every chip overclocks at 4.8GHz lol They didn't even oc the 8350 to 5GHz~, so that review isn't really anything to go by. At stock clocks the pentium scores horrible, as expected. Not only that, but they didn't have watchdoges in there, one of the newer games who love multi-cores. If you find a benchmark of the 3258 running wd, mordor, or ryse, and out performs the 8350, lemme know Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 At stock clocks the pentium scores horrible, as expected.And anyone buying one won't leave them at stock clocks...4.5 GHz is easy even on stock cooling. I'm not arguing for it - I'm just not seeing evidence of highly-threaded games even today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarWeeny Posted November 11, 2014 Posted November 11, 2014 At stock clocks the pentium scores horrible, as expected.And anyone buying one won't leave them at stock clocks...4.5 GHz is easy even on stock cooling. I'm not arguing for it - I'm just not seeing evidence of highly-threaded games even today. And any enthusiast that gets the 8350 won't overclock it you mean? You don't see it as you already have a high-end processor lol. I do have a nice test for you to try out to sway your believes though. Go into the bios, disable the cores until you have 2 left, run watchdogs and see your fps plummet like mad. Shadow of mordor and ryse work just as well if you don't have WD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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