dude G3258 is a $60 dollar cpu, yeah you're not going to be playing a lot of games thats just reality
Exactly. For 10 games listed that run well on that a 3258 OC, there are 10 games that run 30-50% slower than on quad cores. My first quad core was a Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz that I purchased for $299 in August of
2007. Back then I realized that I can keep 20-30 tabs open in the browser, run an anti-virus in the background and game, something that was just not possible on my E6400 @ 3.4Ghz.
We have been saying for years that no one should be building a PC gaming rig with a dual core CPU in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 unless that gamer mostly plays specific dual-threaded games such as Skyrim or Blizzard titles. Look, if it's not FC4, it would be some other game sooner or later. Fact is in many PC games a Core i5 /7 will be 30-50% faster than a 3258. Therefore, all that money spent on faster cards above R9 280 would be simply wasted on the 3258 anyway.
I don't understand how people can afford to spend $ on PC games but can't afford to step up to a Core i5 that will last them 5 years. This is not the 1990s-2000s anymore where you
needed to upgrade your CPU and GPU every 2 years. Nowadays, the extra cost of getting an i5/FX series CPU means a peace of mind for 5+ years. My Jan 2011 2500K will turn 4 years old and it's barely showing its age. I came to a realization a long time ago that it's better to buy a faster CPU, monitor you will enjoy and a solid PSU upfront and just worry about your SSD and GPU upgrades for the next 5 years.
Even games like BF4, Metro 2033/LL, Crysis 3, or COD:AW will have major performance drops of 30-50% with a dual-core/i3. No one should have expected a $60 CPU to be gaming capable for the next 4-5 years. The same thing is happening with 2GB videocards and we also warned that would happen based on history.
When current consoles were announced with 8GB of RAM/VRAM and 8-core CPUs (6 usable), that day the death sentence for dual core CPUs and 2GB cards was signed. Now it's just a matter of time before more and more games come out that will keep destroying dual core CPU setups with 2GB GPUs. For someone building a new system, an FX6000 series and a 3GB GPU should be a minimum stating point, but moving up to an i5 and 4GB GPU is highly recommended.
Next year there will be even more demanding games like the Witcher 3 and we are just getting started as the graphical demands ramp up with developers targetting PS4/XB1.