Intel Pentium G3258 'K' Anniversary Edition

I think part of it is the 'PC master race' mindset. Overbuild a machine just to get the most out of it despite how minuscule or insignificant the improvement is. For me, I'll be using a monitor that supports 1080p resolution comfortably, it has a 2ms response time, 60Hz refresh rate, and a HD webcam. I the DVI cable that came with the 970 I bought. I'm quite happy with games playing above 40fps.

Most would pose the question 'Why not just get a xbox or playstation if your not going to play games above the recommended settings?' Well, I like playing games as best they can, graphically, without hindering play-ability. I enjoy the fact that I can have my entire game library available on my desktop when I'm home and on my laptop when I'm not. I really like all the user mods for games to improve my gaming experience and I love playing my favorite MMOs as well as hosting my terrafirmacraft server for my friends, using virtualbox for class and the fact that my computer also doubles as a Playstation 1 & 2, Nes, SNES, N64, Gamecube and a linux box whenever I have to use linux to do my homework on. I also like that my computer is visually pleasing to look at with the cool LED lighting and I am getting my new ITX case when I decide to buy the parts for the pentium machine I will build laser engraved by a friend of mine and none of that voids the warranty since all the parts have their own warranties.

The next question I probably get is 'Then why not just get a processor that will work for games without having to do much to it like a i5, i7 or one of AMD FX processors and a lower end graphics card if you don't care about frame rates?' As I said, I'm interested in games looking the best they can and regardless of how good a computer is and if it can get 100+ fps, which is great and all, but the human eye can't easily distinguish any visual differences between approximately 30 frames per second and 200 frames per second. Movie theaters play movies at 24 frames per second and no one complains that it looks too slow or choppy. You have to be looking for differences in the imaging, which people probably do and they decide its not enough. For me, 40+ frames is good enough.

The most common argument I have gotten is 'Well, when you playing 'insert popular shooter game here' that 1 frame difference makes the difference in a kill and a death!' No, it doesn't. I played CoD ghost, Black ops 2, battlefield 3 & 4, GTA V, skyrim and DA Inquisition on both my current computer and a buddies 'god' computer with a i7 4790K, 32GB of whatever the fastest ram he could get a hold of and two liquid cooled EVGA Geforce GTX Titan Zs in SLI and I noticed no difference in my enjoyment or performance in any of those games other than they looked slightly better on his computer than it does on mine. I was just as crap at CoD and battlefield, I didn't enjoy GTA V, skyrim or DA inquisition anymore than I did on mine. Sure, the emulators ran somewhat better on his computer but they worked well enough on my machine.

If you managed to get though that huge 'rant' in the end, for me at least, as long as I can play my games at great graphical settings, 40+ frames per second and have enough storage for all of them, I'm very happy. Even more so when I can save some money for other things like, I dunno, games to play on my computer, magic the gathering cards or maybe a xbox one to play the new forza games and whatever other console exclusives tickle my fancy. If it becomes necessary, I may swap for an i5 if I really need it because a certain game doesn't run well enough for me but that may be a while. I'll be testing my 970 on my friend's build, same one I linked in my first post, to see how well it works but it seems to run Arma 3 pretty damn well so I don't think it'll have any issues. But really, if I can make the pentium run more efficiently, well fantastic. I got a $65 processor that can play games as well as a $300 processor would to meet my personal requirements.

Also to answer your comment, I have my i7 running at 3.6Ghz and I don't think its very stable and its running really warm. It hits as high as 65C and its rated for 67.9C by intel. On top of that, i've been having really weird visual issues with my games so I think its just the lack of instruction sets, older architecture and the fact that it probably can't fully use the GTX 970. I just think its time for it to kick the bucket.

Well, I've already made this build and I really don't know what sort of bottleneck or stuttering you all are talking about because the pentium G3258 at 4.7Ghz is doing more than fine on every game I own. I've had zero problems with my build. I just think people put little on something that doesn't have much value to begin with.