Hi! I am building a new system soon. I am looking at a Pentium G3258 for pure over clocking. Well im kinda lost on what GPU i should get. Just hearing the word Pentium makes me think of GPU bottleneck almost instantly. I was thinking along the lines of a GTX 760. Would that cause massive bottle necking to the Pentium G3258, Or could i go ever better? Im talking like a GTX 770 or 780 TI! This is a gaming build i wont be doing any video editing or any thing abobe. Just some games and school work. I know this is an odd question and i know im crazy for even asking but what would you recomend for the Pentium G3258. By the way I will be putting a crazy OC on the Pentium to prevent as much bottlenecking as possible. Thanks for the recomendations!
The answer, even though you may not like it, is it depends.
You could pair it with a 780 Ti and load up a game like Bioshock Infinite, which doesn't use much CPU power at all, and be running 100% load on the GPU with the game maxed and be getting 100FPS no problem.
You could then load up a more CPU intensive game, like say Crysis 3 for example, and have your GPU usage drop and frame rate plummet.
Certain games require more CPU power than others. They will determine what bottlenecks and what doesn't It isn't anything about the GPU in general that does it.
Usually though you want a balanced system. Where your GPU and CPU are about equal. So for you an R9 270 (Cheaper and will smoke a 750 Ti) or an R9 280 (Faster and cheaper than a nVidia GTX 760) would probably be best.
While OCing can most certainly help, you have to understand that the Pentium is a very basic and in modern terms "old technology" CPU. It is a dual core. It doesn't have much cache. It lacks some features of higher end CPUs. In general for gaming you should be okay. However as time passes the drawbacks of the Pentium will only grow as games start using more CPU cores.
That being said you'll be getting a Z97 motherboard most likely so a later upgrade to something like an i5 won't be a problem,
You could go as high as a 780 TI if you wanted, but I would not bother personally. My opinion is that the best card if you aren't too worried about price would be the 780 6GB cards or a R9 290X. Realistically with that CPU you will probably get your overall best bang for your buck return with a 770 4GB or R9 290. The additional VRAM will help with upcoming games and driving higher resolutions.
i totaly dont see the point of that pentium to be honnest, offcourse its an haswell based chip, so the 2 cores that it has, aren´t weak. However, if you wanne overclock the shit out of it, you still need to invest in a $130+ Z97 chipset board and a decent cooler, which makes the bang for buck on the pentium chip, just vanish.
Offcourse it depends allot on the games you play, But if you can afford an i5-4690K i would say just grab that.
Pentium AE is awesome but it's more for tinkering, hard overclocking and media-pc use than pro grade gaming build. Two cores will be an issue for some games and I don't see the point especially when you're willing to buy 780 Ti grade gpu.
I see the point of the Pentium, I just don't see why they have priced it that high when you see what AMD have to offer at the same price point......id go with a 760K or wait for the 860K
But if your hart is set on the Pentium Go with the 780TI, that way you will have a good GPU when switch up to a decent CPU.
A dual-core really isn't enough anymore. Some games (Battlefield 3) even disable features if they detect a dual-core. Even a lot of games that do run fast on the Pentium don't run smoothly.
I honestly wouldn't pair that thing with anything higher than a 270X, which still runs most games on max settings at 1080p, just not the newest and most demanding.
If you need the price of the Pentium, I would wait for AMD's 860k and buy an FM2+ motherboard. This is a quad-core for roughly the same price and should be a mad overclocker. It is slower at single-threaded stuff, but most games that are demanding on the CPU are made for 4 cores these days. With that, you could probably get away with a 280X or 760.
Until Intel makes cheaper quad-cores, if you can't afford an i5, you should be looking at AMD.