the-pi-guy said:
sc94597 said:
If my friend's budget wasn't $600 max I would tell him to get an overclockable i5. But since he made it clear that $600 is the maximum he'd pay, I figured the G3258, considering it is sufficient to max emulators, LoL/MMORPGs, and is capable of playing any game that has been released up to this point at the medium settings which his r9 270x will afford him, excluding Dragon Age Inquisition, then an i5 is unnecessary.
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If your friend is comfortable with overclocking, then I think the Pentium is the best choice, if not then he could still get a i5-4460 and still be in budget.
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The motherboard makes it very easy to overclock. You just go into the bios, click a button and then you're at 4.2 Ghz. Then all you need to do is up the voltage a bit, and you can be at a stable 4.4 - 4.5 Ghz. Of course, depending on how good the specific CPU you get it is at overclocking. If he showed interest in future-proof PC gaming, video processing, or any task that required a good bit of multi-threading I'd tell him to get an i5- 4460 with a cheaper board (no need for an expensive board if not overclocking) but he just isn't interested. I'm sure once he gets into emulation though, he might start to consider PC gaming, that's why I gave him a good entry level card - r9 270x, and an upgrade path (to an i5 4690k/ broadwell version or even an i7 4790k / broadwell version depending on when he chooses to upgrade for.)
To be honest, he was going to spend $600 on a crap computer from Walmart or something, and I told him that I'd show him how to build a much better computer, etc, etc. He didn't consider it until he realized that he can emulate games on it like I do on mine. He is a physics major (like myself) and we go to a very competitive school so it shouldn't be over his head, once he gets started. He just has never done it before.