Which cpu is better for playing mainstream games?

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parvanov

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AMD Athlon II X4 760K
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Intel® Pentium® G3258
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Gigabyte HD7770 Oc 1gb gddr5

I am talking futurewise too :)

p.s Sorry for the wrong forum/category :(
 
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No.

If you read the article I linked they get minimal OC on an H81 motherboard and the stock cooler .

If you had a bigger budget and could include an H97 motherboard then the intel could be a good stepping stone , but if all you can afford is H81 you have made too big a compromise on the board to ever get the best from an i5

I suppose an alternate plan could be to buy a system with an i5 and an H97 board and use the onboard graphics till you can add a graphics card . But gaming would be pretty poor in the meantime .

If you do go the AMD way you you will have all the cpu performance you need for BF4 anyway...
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I would definitely go with the 760K and an FM2+ motherboard

Graphically intensive games like BF4 and crysis , and especially in online play , will run better on four cores than they will on two .
The pentium might be a little better in some older games that dont multithread well .

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-b81-cheap-overclocking,3888.html
Comparing the pentium and the athlon 750K .
The 750 uses a different core . The 760K is about 10 - 15% more powerful clock for clock and then its running faster anyway
 
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I dont know what is better... Buying g3258 with 1150 socket and h81 motherboard which will give me space for upgrading to an i5 or i7 in the future or buying quad core 760k... when modern games tend to use quad cores ?
 
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Easily the G3258...overclock it. Then when you have the money go right to a I5.
 
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No.

If you read the article I linked they get minimal OC on an H81 motherboard and the stock cooler .

If you had a bigger budget and could include an H97 motherboard then the intel could be a good stepping stone , but if all you can afford is H81 you have made too big a compromise on the board to ever get the best from an i5

I suppose an alternate plan could be to buy a system with an i5 and an H97 board and use the onboard graphics till you can add a graphics card . But gaming would be pretty poor in the meantime .

If you do go the AMD way you you will have all the cpu performance you need for BF4 anyway
http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html
The FX4320 [ roughly the same as a 760K ] performs within a couple of fps of an intel i7 costing 4 times as much.
Again though these are solo player benchmarks . When you play online then more cores starts to pay off
 
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