Intel Pentium G3258 for z87?

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SycoSight

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I might sell my i7 4770k to get a few bucks back. This cpu is apparently AMAZING based on the benchmarks after overclocking. Can it work with my z87 asus gryphon?
 
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Yeah, no point in selling your i7. So what if the Pentium has amazing benchmarks, it still has only 2 cores; If you OC your i7 you'll probably get a tiny bit worse performance/core than with the Pentium, but you'll have two times more cores and four times more threads. All games/applications that actually need a lot of processing power can use multiple cores, making the Pentium lose to the i7 in almost every aspect.
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SycoSight

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i dont know why i bought an i7.... i almost exclusively game and the benchmarks are similar to the i5 4570k. Im looking at the linus benchmarks and with gaming the i7 4790k is marginally better than the pentium
 
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Yeah, no point in selling your i7. So what if the Pentium has amazing benchmarks, it still has only 2 cores; If you OC your i7 you'll probably get a tiny bit worse performance/core than with the Pentium, but you'll have two times more cores and four times more threads. All games/applications that actually need a lot of processing power can use multiple cores, making the Pentium lose to the i7 in almost every aspect.
 
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,3849.html
most of the games its a good 10%+ lower than the i3 - dosn't even compare to even the i5 (20-30%+ lower performance when overclocked to 4.5Ghz.).
 
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In games that only use two cores, performance would be similar. Newer titles that use 3 or more threads, the Pentium would lose. You didn't make a mistake buying the i7. It will last longer before an upgrade is needed. Hell people still are using gen 1 i7's and satisfied with performance. Downgrading to a pentium would be a big mistake.
 
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