G3258

Hey Sup Forums is this processor still a meme? It's currently $50 at my local micro center. current setup has a fx-6300 that isn't exaclty cutting it in CPU bound games like Arma 3 and DAYZ. I also work in music production where the fx 6300 can disappoint at stock clock speeds. Should I switch for these reasons? I don't plan to play many triple A games that suggest more than 2 cores.

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I currently have my fx 6300 at 4.3 ghz
I plan to OC the g3258 if do get it.

have 6 cores
want to get 2 cores

Yup, it's pretty much a huge meme. A ton of games won't even start because it only gives you 2 threads to use. The rest have massive frame rate drops and glitches.

what if i don't like amd

>have 6 amd cores
>want to have 2 intel-cores, which almost equal 6 amd cores, or equal 1 Power8 core.
I think it worth for single-thread programs (very old games). Modern game-engines have support for 16 threads.

>what if i don't like amd
Then why did you get an AMD processor in the first place fuckstick.

Anyway wait for Zen, it's going to shit all over intel.

This pic makes me butthurt. I fucked up with my i3 4330, especialy because I use Gentoo.

>wait for Zen, it's going to shit all over intel.
>being this delusional

>wait for Power9 wich will be released in 2017
fix

Its has literally 1/3 of the FX6300 performance.

Its a decent CPU, but for you a downgrade, I'm sorry but for you an i5 is the minimum decent upgrade, a good i3 is on the same tier than the AMD.

>it's going to shit all over intel
hahahaha
no
It'll be competing in the low-mid range segment, sitting around Haslel performance.

Is this for real? Why the fuck is a dual-core athlon so powerful?

I guess I'll end up waiting for zen, an i5 and a new motherboard will set me back at least $300. Hopefully AMD will fix their caching issue that plagues the Bohemia and open world games with Zen

Dude, second hand i5 for 100 bucks, cheap 1155 mobo 50dol, you sell what you have and you got your money back.

>used
Why not tell him to be a irl cuckold too?

Kill yourself, dipshit.

The g3258 is shit.
Sup Forums was shilling it hard right when it came out as I was building my pc and almost fell for it, making it out to be some god of oc with incredible single core proformance™
Its terrible tho because
>two cores lol
>pretty normal single core performance
>mildly good oc ability, pretty good if you win Si lottery
>is handily beaten by similar/identical price range AMD chips
>benchmarks like a turd
No surprises, it doesn't really have a place in the market.

The 6300 is gr8 value m8, it was quite literally £15 more than the g3258 in bongland (dunno about now, doubt it changed tho) and
>six cores so you can actually play games
>longevity/futureproofing because moar cores and isn't redundant out the box
>god tier oc (got mine to 4.8Ghz on air ez)
>can run a benchmark
>fucks the g3258 in the ass three times over
Its not a stronk CPU but it sure does well and its been the de facto bang for buck cpu since it came out since at its price range there has been nothing quite as good.

>spending extra in brand new practically re-branded processors

...

2 full intel cores maybe, but not the gimped dogshit they put in the pentium line.

>Q1 2016
>Q4 2010
After 6 fucking years I would hope it would be more powerful.

ebin
now kill yourself

considering its only on a 28nm process it may as well be from 2010

Fx6300 is much better, upgrade to fx8350 or i5 6600k at least

Is it really worth spending that money on
5 year old tech?

Don't fall for the memes a i3 6100 wrecks the 6300

Your fx6300 can multithread as well as an Ivy bridge i5, just oc it.

>six cores
Just stop it, its a tri-core processor, its all great with logical cores, but they are NOT real cores, but it still had 3 fucking cores, THREE.

There are no fucking 6-core processors, the highest is penta-core: cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz&id=2792

Not counting fucking Xeons.

Faggots.

Who cares, i'm rocking a i5 3470 just fine, I won't have to upgrade for a few years.

You would have to get a new motherboard, and you'd spend at least $100 and it wouldn't even be an upgrade, just a better upgrade path.

If you want to upgrade to a faster processor, get the FX-8300 for $105 with an aftermarket cooler (CM 212 or Cryorig H7 would be good) and overclock.

True but the i3 gets wrecked by the FX-8300

youtube.com/watch?v=nLkaNWo0EV0

Get a decent CPU cooler and overclock.
Wait for zeeeeeen!

I can't get it over 4.3ghz without it crashing.

If you really want to go for Intel yes, only performance wise no unless you know what you are doing or plan to get an i7 3770 or something like that later.

I would not switch from FX6300 myself, but I plan to get an i5 2400 for 100 bucks to upgrade from G550 (a CPU on the tier of the E8400), fuck the new sockets and new gen bullshit. I think is gonna be a nice upgrade to use with emulators and VMs, without spending too much.

Yes, 2 full cores, like i3 4330.

i3 is still a better buy

Well, they stuck on three modules with two cores each, albeit they share some resources. At least they physically exist unlike hyperthreading.

Regardless, the OS sees 6 and loads it all 6, just like hyperthreading only they are real and exist. Its a different approach to multithreading.
>"Windows 8 supports CMT-based CPUs out of the box by addressing each core as logical cores and modules as physical cores."
So there you have it, they are listed as logical cores by name, they actually do have six cores.

>no 6+ core CPUs
Careful you don't accidentally google Helios x20


Faggot

The i3 is a great buy if
>you plan to upgrade to i5 or i7 later
>you already have highly overclocked RAM because for some reason it loves overclocked RAM

But it isn't worth starting a new build over, and it still doesn't match the FX-8300 especially with DX12 coming up and being multicore hungry.

Only go budget/used Intel if you plan to upgrade later. The old i5 will not beat your chip if you overclock.

The Skylake i5 and i7 are unmatched and if you are already spending around $200 on a CPU for a build, you absolutely need to go intel.

However, in the budget-midrange level, AMD gives you the best bang for your buck overall right now, even if the new budget Skylakes give better single core performance.

For some people it is. Not everyone is a gamer ya know.

The pentium G lineup is for budget PC's, not gaming rigs. If you're running that G3258 lightly OC'd with a 750ti and 8gb of ddr3, you're in the range it's meant for.
But your current processor is much better.

Even outside of gaming, what relevant shit can't be compiled using multicore. It's 2016 and we're optimizing multicore performance.

I honestly don't see the point of buying a new cpu at this point. My 8350fx works fine at 4.0ghz and I've got it undervolted for better energy savings.

If I really need performance I can always setup profiles for it in AMD Overdrive but I haven't needed it.

Thanks for this post. Its amazing how many people fail to understand this.

I went from a phenom ii x6 to the g3258

It's a good investment. Plays old stuff well, and i can play the few modern games i like, pso2, overwatch, mgsv

gaming aside its perfectly usable for an every day web browsing and ok at video rendering cpu.

mines at 4.3 on water.

Still 50% faster than that piece of shit dual core pentium.

alright, let me give you the minimum specs for a processor if you want any games or anything.

Dual core. 2.5ghz. I also recommend i5.

That's it. I don't know the specs of the pentium you're showing, but if it meets those or above, you'll be fine.

>CMT-based CPU
That article is depressing to read. Why did AMD have to do that retarded muh coars shit.

I recently got the chance to finally install and play CoD Advanced Warfare on my PC with this Intel chip and an R7 260X. At 1080p my setup could barely handle the game at max settings, and AA wasn't even turned up to full. But I know, it was mainly the GPU's fault. I also only have an HDD in my computer, so. The thing that really tipped me off about the G2358 and its inability to cope was the abysmally slow loading times betweem campaigns. When I changed the graphics settings to 720p only the game ran much more smoothly, but the loading screens took forever. The cut scenes would literally wrap up and I'd be staring at a black screen with a loading bar for up to 25 minutes and I'm not exaggerating. I wonder how much overclocking would have helped.

What's wrong with the pentiums?

Pentium is normie-tier, that's what. Just enough to run, really.

you must be at least 18 to browse here.

I'd say i5 is normie tier
>HURR 2 CORES
>NOT POWERFUL ENUF 4 MY CS:GO