Quote Originally Posted by Judge_Xero View Post
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.
That's kind of what I'm worried about, many of the new games are optimaized use more cores/threads at lower speeds then less cores at higher speeds. This is espcially true in MMOs where CPU capabilities play a huge role, hence why I'm on the fence about the G3258; If only there was a dual core HT option that has an unlocked multiplier, sadly i think all i3s are locked ; ;