AMD Athlon X4 860K VS AMD FX-4350 VS Intel Pentium G3258

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I am thinking about buying one of this CPU. I want to overclock with air cooling, and the cooler will be a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.
From what I have seen in cpuboss, it says that the FX-4350 is capable of 5.09GHz OC and the Athlon X4 860k 4.49GHz OC. But the Pentium G3258 is at 4.4GHz.
Let's say I can hit this numbers, will still the Pentium dominate in 2Core games because of it's single core performance?
Not expecting the Athlon X4 860K to be better than the Pentium G3258, but they perform similar and the Athlon has 2 more cores. Is it better right now? And in the future?
Also I am thinking that the FX-4350 OC at 5GHz will be equally performing the same as a high-end i5?
 
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The FX-4350 is not a great chip these days. While on paper it is a quad core, it performs much more like a dual core. A Core i3 is definitely a better choice than the ones you gave, as suggested by Rhezner.
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no, the 4350 will not be as good as an i5 when overclocked, not even an i3 for gaming. The g3258 will probably reach higher clocks than either of them.

But if you are spending the money on those CPUs and a hyper 212 evo then just get an i3 4160 and use the stock cooler, it will perform better than these CPUs will and it will have a better upgrade path
 
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So the FX-4350 5GHz wont perform better than an i3? WOW
 
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I want to game, some Internet browsing just, I am currently doing some light programming at school.
But i am considering the 2core way because I can only remember the witcher 3 that it's really hard to play with 2cores, but i have seen a few
 
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the i3 will perform better while gaming, and you probably wont get much of an overclock with a 212 evo out of the 4350
 
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I still prefer the Pentium over the i3 because I can spend a little more money on the GPU this year and lower some settings if needed (don't mind on playing 30 or 60fps, but lower of higher i don't need, because lower than 30 is unplayable and my monitor doesn't go over 60fps, it's and 5ms IPS so image quality over speed) and get an i5 later other year.
 
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The thing is that I don't mind to cheap out on the Pentium, I think that 2 years after i get the pentium i will get the i5. I still have a ton list of games that i will spend good amount of time playing while using 2 cores.
And since the AMD didn't overperform nvidia GPU's, the market is currently more viable to spend more money on the GPU instead of the CPU, and the new AMD CPU will come out next year..
 
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if you plan on getting an i5 later on then go for the pentium
 
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