Intel G3258 Heavensward Benchmark Score

[Judge_Xero]

One nice thing about the G3258 is that you can get quite a good Overclock on it with just stock cooler. They are pretty safe running at temps around 90 C, but you can usually clock them around 4.4Ghz and stay under 80 C.

But that wont alleviate the FPS jumping around in highly populated areas. If you compare a Haswell i5 @ 3.4Ghz, it will typically use 70-80% of the CPU in those areas. So you could say that you would need a G3258 running around 7 GHz to perform the same, and that's only to get a steady 30-60 FPS.

One issue with the Benchmark when comparing hardware, is that it doesn't simulate the cities and highly populated areas very well, or even the Crystal Tower style dungeons.

Not to say that the G3258 wont play most aspects of the game well, but it usually leads to wanting something that plays things smoother lol.

Keep in mind that if you do go the G3259 route, that it can be overclocked on any 9 series motherboard from Intel, you don't need a Z series board.