> These options are much cheaper than buying one of those core-locked i3's and, once
> overclocked, benchmarks show the G3258 is more than a match for most i3's.
As noted, the i3 will beat any AMD even at a lower clock, so for the AMD to win you have to be generating more heat and drawing more power. Depending where you are that may be a bonus though ;-)
> That's the conondrum I face. I don't know if the FX-6300's 6 cores will offer any
> advantage in the future.
PC games in the near future will definitely prefer more cores than they have previously due to the architecture of the Xbone/PS4, but at the same time dual-core setups are still a thing in the Steam statistics so games will continue to run on them.
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