Will Dragon Age Inquisition ever run on an overclocked Pentium G3258? I am in the final stages of building a new PC and I really want to save some money and overclock a G3258 as part of my build. With an Asus Ranger and an AR01 cooler I hope to achieve speeds of at least 4.6 Ghz, possibly 4.8 Ghz from this CPU. Surely I don't have to fork out an extra £110 - £120 just to play this one game.
Dragon Age: Inquisition has been built with Frostbite 3, the same game engine used by Battlefield 4 except BioWare have also integrated a vegetation engine called 'Speed Tree' that has been used in many games and movies, from Avatar to Star Trek. Roughly translated it's optimized for multi-threaded CPU's fella, the G3258 as good as it is will bottleneck your GPU.
Also, be warned, do not expect such high overclocks. They usually top out at around 4.4 to 4.6GHz. It's usually not due to heat, but more so due to the voltages required. If you're on a budget, why are you getting a Ranger? Get a H97 board instead. Before you say "they can't overclock," yes, yes they can.
If you can get to 4.8ghz, it may be OK, but it really depends on what gpu you're pairing with it. With a mid level gpu (r9 270, gtx 660) the performance hit will be less pronounced, but if you do what bit tech did and slap a gtx680 on it, you're gonna have a bad time. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2014/06/24/intel-pentium-g3258-review/5
Since DAI uses frostbite, and you seem to want to play DAI, wouldn't an AMD cpu be a reasonable choice? Pretty sure the AMD's do an excellent job with a decent gpu for battlefield 4 / the frostbite engine.
DAI only uses certain bits of the frostbite engine. They are heavily taxing the cpu once you up the graphical setting. Its been optimised around a Intel Quad with hyper threading thats its recommended specs.
get a cheaper MB and a proper 4 core CPU Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Core i5-4690K Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
I spoke to a bloke on another forum who is running the game on medium settings with that cpu. So it should be possible. I don't know what his framerate was like, but he seemed happy enough.
