Pentium G3258 for YouTube editing?

[Yuriman]

Taken from Anandtech's Bench, the Pentium is slower in all but one game tested than an FX-6350:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1265?vs=1281

Some games will be faster on a Pentium, but overall I have a hard time recommending a dual core in 2014.

GameGPU.ru is a site I commonly visit for processor comparison, but they rarely (never?) go lower than an i3 in their testing. However, an i3 commonly comes out well ahead of a (stock) FX chip.

 

[AtenRa]

The difference between PCIe 2.0 and 3.0 is "very small" but not "zero". I never claimed it was large. However, it is not zero either.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7089/geforce-gtx-titan-twoway-sli-scaling-pcie-2-vs-pcie-3
GTX Titan SLI

AT in the article used the Intel x79 chipset that has 2x PCIe x16 Gen 3.0 ,
Z97 only has 2x PCIe x8 Gen 3.0.

The performance difference between 2x 16 Gen 2.0 vs 2x 8 Gen 3.0 is negligible.

Taken from the 970 board review:



I wasn't aware that AM3+ had Intel-based SATA controllers. That actually changes everything, if you can get an Intel solution on AM3.

Also, I was suspicious and checked, the two graphs are identical that you linked. Reviewer mistake in insufficient editing after copy-paste?

EDIT: I'd like to reiterate my feeling that individually, very slightly slower USB/SATA and an older generation of PCIe don't account for much, but the difference isn't zero.

MSI 970 gaming only has 6x SATA-6 from AMD 970 chipset. There is no Intel Sata controller, it must be a typo.

Another review of the the MSI 970 Gaming motherboard also has the SATA-6 controller performance on par with Intel Z97.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2014/08/21/msi-970-gaming-review/1

 

[TheELF]

Taken from Anandtech's Bench, the Pentium is slower in all but one game tested than an FX-6350:

That's a stock g3258 @$70 against a $125 fx-6350,
that's almost half the price.
And the g3258 you can overclock without expensive motherboards huge psu and extra coolers.

 

[Erenhardt]

That's a stock g3258 @$70 against a $125 fx-6350,
that's almost half the price.

That explains why fx is two times faster.

And the g3258 you can overclock without expensive motherboards huge psu and extra coolers.

Same as fx...

 

[Yuriman]

That's a stock g3258 @$70 against a $125 fx-6350,
that's almost half the price.
And the g3258 you can overclock without expensive motherboards huge psu and extra coolers.

I chose the 6350 because the 6300 isn't as well covered by Anand's Bench. It's a $70 chip vs a $100 one, and you can still overclock a 6300 somewhat with the stock cooler, a cheap board, and a relatively low end power supply. However, you do have a point that you *can* marginally decrease spending on board and PSU with the Pentium, and the CPU itself saves $30. That's why my vote goes to the 860K given the OP's criteria, or an i3 if OP can budget in a bit more.