is pentium g3258 good for multitasking?

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guys i want to ask,does pentium g3258 good for multitasking?
i cant find the multi tasking test on youtube

which better,g3258 or athlon x4 860k in multi tasking?

and should i have a good cooler for oc 3258 to 4.1-4.5 ghz?
 
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Well it depends on what you would consider multitasking. The pentium is a lot snappier than the athlon but the athlon can handle heavier loads. Honestly i would say for my definition of mutitasking, no the pentium is no good. Its a snappy little devil and only a good option as a fun and cheap way to get into the 1150 socket if you're planning to upgrade but its not a serious processor in any regard, and that includes multitasking. I would say go for an i3 if you have the extra money as im running an i3 4370 right now and it can multitask a lot better than the athlon or the pentium and it has some serious gaming balls. I can run the witcher 3 at ultra settings with a gtx 970 with no issues at great fps. Something neither the athlon or the pentium can do easily, well the pentium cant start the game at ive heard. If youre planning to upgrade get the pentium and get a hyper 212 evo cooler to get it to around 4.2 - 4.3 ghz. If you're not planning to upgrade get the athlon 860k and still get the hyper 212 evo to get to around 4.1 - 42 ghz. Ive heard the 860k isn't a great overclocker and the gains it makes when overclocked are a lot less than the pentium but as a stand alone processor without upgrades in mind i like the athlon a bit better, especially if multitasking is your main concern. Also the Athlon can run games that require 4 threads which the pentium cant.
 
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Well it depends on what you would consider multitasking. The pentium is a lot snappier than the athlon but the athlon can handle heavier loads. Honestly i would say for my definition of mutitasking, no the pentium is no good. Its a snappy little devil and only a good option as a fun and cheap way to get into the 1150 socket if you're planning to upgrade but its not a serious processor in any regard, and that includes multitasking. I would say go for an i3 if you have the extra money as im running an i3 4370 right now and it can multitask a lot better than the athlon or the pentium and it has some serious gaming balls. I can run the witcher 3 at ultra settings with a gtx 970 with no issues at great fps. Something neither the athlon or the pentium can do easily, well the pentium cant start the game at ive heard. If youre planning to upgrade get the pentium and get a hyper 212 evo cooler to get it to around 4.2 - 4.3 ghz. If you're not planning to upgrade get the athlon 860k and still get the hyper 212 evo to get to around 4.1 - 42 ghz. Ive heard the 860k isn't a great overclocker and the gains it makes when overclocked are a lot less than the pentium but as a stand alone processor without upgrades in mind i like the athlon a bit better, especially if multitasking is your main concern. Also the Athlon can run games that require 4 threads which the pentium cant.
 
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Being a Pentium, which are dual core and also not hyperthread enabled, trails behind the i3 (dual core, hyperthreaded), i5 (quad core, not hyperthreaded), and i7 (quad or more core, hyperthreaded) in terms of "multithreading".

The Athlon offers quad core, but single core performance is lower than the Pentium single core performance.

In almost all gaming situations, the Pentium beats the Athlon.
With no overclock considered, the Athlon beats the Pentium when all cores are utilized in PassMark.
The Pentium beats the Athlon at single core performance in PassMark.

The Pentium offers a better upgrade path (i3/i5/i7).

If you choose to overclock any CPU, you should get a good aftermarket cooler.
 
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if your multi-tasking consists of opening lots of stuff at one go, but switching between them one at a time, the Pentium would probably serve you better.

I have one in a home media PC and it runs absolutely awesome on 4.0GHz with the stock cooler.
Usual loads are lots of browser tabs, some documents, and video streaming, and the CPU is never strained to the point where the overclock pushes temps too high for comfort.

If your idea of multi-tasking is running multiple programs with their own processing tasks at the same time, the AMD would be better (by a fair bit).

The pentium is limited by its low core count, but what it does, it does really fast, so you don't really notice unless the programs you're running are well-threaded (like rendering software, but then again, you shouldn't be rendering on a pentium :p ).
 
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