I'm building a PC for the first time and I'd like to learn as much as possible while doing so (computers pertain to my major...also, games 
). Along those lines I'd like to gain some experience with overclocking so for my budget (~$750 for hardware) the Pentium G3258 seems like a good choice. I'd like to stick to Intel for processors so that I can upgrade to one of their higher-end quad-cores in the future. Therein lies my question: will the overclocked Pentium be okay for the time being? I'd like to be able to play modern games, especially Arkham Knight and other open world types. I know this is less than ideal, but are the four cores necessary or could I get by with some tweaks to the settings?
Where the rest of the ~$650 is going:
GPU: R9 280
Mobo: MSI Z97-G45. Overkill for the Pentium but nice for an i5/7.
8 gigs RAM, etc. etc.
note: I've yet to get a 1080p monitor, so in the time when I have the G3258 I'll likely be playing in 1366x768.
). Along those lines I'd like to gain some experience with overclocking so for my budget (~$750 for hardware) the Pentium G3258 seems like a good choice. I'd like to stick to Intel for processors so that I can upgrade to one of their higher-end quad-cores in the future. Therein lies my question: will the overclocked Pentium be okay for the time being? I'd like to be able to play modern games, especially Arkham Knight and other open world types. I know this is less than ideal, but are the four cores necessary or could I get by with some tweaks to the settings?Where the rest of the ~$650 is going:
GPU: R9 280
Mobo: MSI Z97-G45. Overkill for the Pentium but nice for an i5/7.
8 gigs RAM, etc. etc.
note: I've yet to get a 1080p monitor, so in the time when I have the G3258 I'll likely be playing in 1366x768.
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