G3258 vs i3 4130 vs i5 4460

Corex

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Hi everyone,

I cannot really choose between these two as I believe the i5 'should' be faster. But I also want to take your opinions as I'm currently don't know what to choose. From the benchmarks I've seen I see that there's no big difference between G3258 and the i5 4460 and G3258 is almost -if not faster- equal to the i3 4130.

I'll get the Gigabyte GA-P81-D3 with any one of those CPUs. I'm not planing to overclock (the Pentium specially). I want to get the best CPU and save money as possible as well. I want the choose wisely from one of those.

Do you recommend me to get the G3258 with a more expensive Motherboard. So it would be at least equal to the i5 or better than the i3?

I usually do heavy multitasking. Playing some games (BF3, BF4), and programming with Visual Studio.

So what do you think will be the wisest choice? I can get any one of them but it would be better if I could save some money to get better other parts. (but of course if it's a huge difference in performance I'd get the highest of them). Hope you got my point of the question, and thanks in advance. :)
 
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Definitely the i5. Even if it means you need to get a cheaper motherboard. Motherboards are important for a lot of reasons, but they aren't going to make as big of a performance difference as the i5 to the others.
the i5 is indeed faster than the other two, costlier too. the pentium will never equal the core i5. for your requirements the i5 is more suitable. and dual core to dual core isn't really an upgrade. you will certainly notice the difference, especially in multitasking.
down the line, get an SSD too.
 

gwapito

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I've suffered a lot from my Pentium E5700. I usually do heavy multitasking. Playing some games (BF3, BF4), and programming with Visual Studio.

Get any i5. Take advantage of quad core against dual core
 

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Considering the pentium g3258 cant video render or perform decently other than games, I would get an i5... The g3258 actually performs extremely well in some games today, within some games it performs almost identical to the i5 4690k.
 

Gracodana

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If your going to do multi tasking then the i5 definitly, if you could live with the pentium for a while then maybe you could get a Z97 board and then when you get money upgrade to an i5 4690k or i7. But then again you said you didn't want to overclock.