yet another "Best CPU Under $x" thread ($120ish), gaming-related

[schmuckley]

Skyrim runs fine maxed out with heavy mods on a g3258

 

[Geforce man]

Keep the i7 860, great chip. Upgrade the SSD / Ram, chuck in the new video-card, enjoy gaming. Your chip is basically = to a i7 930 x58 chip, but with dual channel ram instead of triple channel. It will game just fine.

 

[soccerballtux]

Not true. If you can get a G3258 + mobo combo for $100, and use the stock (copper-cored) cooler, then you save a bundle compared to a $120 mobo (need beefy / heatsinked VRMs for AMD FX), $100 for the FX CPU, and then another $30-60 for a beefy cooler to overclock it. (Because the G3258 will have better single-threaded performance.)

I would make the opposite argument. If you're going to spend that much on AMD, you might as well buy Intel, like a high-clocked Haswell i3, if your goal is to play games with the rig.

oh, that's true. I already had the cooler and got a microcenter combo deal

 

[VirtualLarry]

oh, that's true. I already had the cooler and got a microcenter combo deal

Oh. Well, in that case... 🙂 Probably a great deal then.

 

[plonk420]

just to necropost a followup, the g3258 is happily sitting in the living room where one of the two main roomies enjoys WoWing on it + HD5870 (had to get a new case (Corsair 270R...holy shit, my first case with cable routing!) as my only one that would house the 3rd party Arctic Cooling Xtreme Plus II is still occupied by R9 290+i7-860) and it performs better than the $2000+ Haswell i5+GTX960M Alienware he'd normally play on.

also, youtube and kodi box

have only really tested L4D2, Typing of the Dead, Hitman Absolution, NFS: High Stakes, and a bunch of demoscene demos

 

[DrMrLordX]

Typing of the dead!!!! Hah!

Oh and if you came back and asked the SAME question today . . . G4560 all the way.