Pentium G3258 VS i3 2120 for budget gaming ?

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G3258 OC will out-perform the i3 in single thread apps only, and thats only if the app is restricted to 1-2 cores. Even skyrim, as heavily single threaded as it comes, can roll over single threads into 3 sometimes 4 cores especially when heavily modded and using high k texture packs.

What this all means is the i3 HT will outperform the pentium when it comes to everything else. So the question becomes, do you want best performance in a limited fashion, or very good all round performance. Also to consider, you can OC some i3s, negating any advantage the pentium g3258 has.
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Check the titles you want to play. If any of them require a quad-core CPU (rare, but they're coming out), your only choice is the hyperthreaded i3, which appears to the OS to have four cores. Yes, there are some hacks that may allow such games to run on the Pentium, but I'm not sure that's a bet I'd take.
If you get the Pentium, you will be able to overclock it to at least 4.0GHz, even on a H81 or B85 board. Along with the cheaper chip, this will let you put more money into the graphics card and a better PSU (although the Antec VP-450 is a good budget PSU that can handle any card needing a single 6-pin PCIe cable, like a GTX960).

Edit: the stock cooler that comes with the G3258 is better than what the low-end chips usually get, is intended for overclocking, and will let you get to 4.2GHz (assuming the silicon lottery doesn't stop you at 4.0GHz, as happened on one of mine).
 
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The only way to get the pentium to equal the performance of an i3 is to spend an extra $30 on an aftermarket cooler .
That means the best OC pentium computer ditches the pentium and uses an i3 .
You get better performance , cooler and quieter running ans less power consumption
 
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G3258 OC will out-perform the i3 in single thread apps only, and thats only if the app is restricted to 1-2 cores. Even skyrim, as heavily single threaded as it comes, can roll over single threads into 3 sometimes 4 cores especially when heavily modded and using high k texture packs.

What this all means is the i3 HT will outperform the pentium when it comes to everything else. So the question becomes, do you want best performance in a limited fashion, or very good all round performance. Also to consider, you can OC some i3s, negating any advantage the pentium g3258 has.
 
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I have the G3258 in my build with a R9 270x. It runs pretty much everything fine. My motherboard, ASrock Z97 Anniversary, has a feature to automatically overclock to certain intervals(3.8, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5 I think) and I have it set to 3.8 but overclocked it to 4.0 so it's using the 3,8 voltage at 4.0 for several weeks no crashing, so its very good at overclocking. It is only 2 cores with no hyperthreading, so its not the best for video editing, multi core enhanced gaming, etc. but I'd say its pretty good. Plus, being an 1150 socket cpu, you can upgrade to an i5 or i7 later. The only game I've struggled with was metro 2033, but it wasn't too bad.
 
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