G3258 with new mainboard VS 4150 i3 and current cheap MB?

[Abwx]

Funny thing about BF4 MP is that I saw it run good on an OCed G3258 and a GTX 770 @ 1080P Ultra. It did have quite a few dips into the 50fps territory, but it was very playable. Wish I'd gotten a video of it.

At the bottom, in all senses, of the page :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8232/...y-edition-review-the-intel-pentium-g3258-ae/4

Overall this thing was quite hyped, the CPU benches show nothing fantastic.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

I have the pentium, battlefield 4 runs fine.

Running it on windows 8.1 (might run worse on win7, no dx11.1), of course not running sli, single gtx670.

Could record something with shadowplay.

 

[4ghz]

At the bottom, in all senses, of the page :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8232/...y-edition-review-the-intel-pentium-g3258-ae/4

Overall this thing was quite hyped, the CPU benches show nothing fantastic.

A chip that can often be found with a motherboard for $85-$95 shipped has trouble running $500 worth of video cards? How shocking. Now if you could offer a better alternative for under a hundred that might be helpful. Otherwise why isn't the hype deserved?

 

[crashtech]

At the bottom, in all senses, of the page :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8232/...y-edition-review-the-intel-pentium-g3258-ae/4

Overall this thing was quite hyped, the CPU benches show nothing fantastic.

Right, nothing fantastic. Just playable, which it is. Thing is, you linked non-applicable SLI benchmarks in which the CPU in question doesn't actually look that bad. It would be more illustrative to see single GPU tests with G3258 pitted against the 860K. I believe at that point we might be able to convincingly recommend FM2+ systems in the low-end gaming space.