Scan OC's the Pentium G3258 to 4.5GHZ

This is so going in my wife's new rig lol all she plays is WOW so it will be killer if I can get it in the 4.5ghz range. Newegg and TD have it up for 74.99 right now for preorder.
 
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Rauelius said:
To be fair, in single-core benchmarks that Pentium will destroy the old Ivy Bridge.
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In generic tasks, and even then you won't need the performance there.

This CPU will be hard to find, I have my pre-order up and I don't think mine will be fulfilled.
 
You guys do realize this isnt devils Canyons right? This is the same architecture as the last gen, just unlocked.
 
Cheap like borscht...a good plaything CPU to waste a day off playing with and to practice delidding on. It wouldn't surprise me to see some of these puppies crack 5.0GHz in the right hands...;)
 
jmilcher said:
You guys do realize this isnt devils Canyons right? This is the same architecture as the last gen, just unlocked.
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You do realize Devils Canyon isn't a new architecture either, right?
 
lutjens said:
Cheap like borscht...a good plaything CPU to waste a day off playing with and to practice delidding on. It wouldn't surprise me to see some of these puppies crack 5.0GHz in the right hands...;)
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Unlikely. These chips will no doubt be binned dies that couldn't run with all 4 cores active, so had the two worst ones disabled and then re-sold as it is.

You may get lucky though of course. You sometimes get perfectly good dies crippled to lower spec chips when demand shifts with a given supply. :cool:
 
Rauelius said:
Can a dual-core at 6Ghz be equal to a Quad-Core at 3Ghz?
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This is a good question, yes, no and it depends. There's a lot of factors to take into account since speed isn't "just" attributed to core count + mhz.
 
melk said:
You do realize Devils Canyon isn't a new architecture either, right?
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Correct. But it is tweaked and changed, a slight variation other than just a unlock such as the chip this topic is about. Didn't mean to confuse anyone.
 
jmilcher said:
Correct. But it is tweaked and changed, a slight variation other than just a unlock such as the chip this topic is about. Didn't mean to confuse anyone.
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The major tweak in this case is the TIM used.
 
Now tell me... why should gamers would pay more for other expensive CPU when we have this gaming beast going toe to toe with flagship quadcore. Too bad this is a one time thing for dualies.
 
Why hasn't Intel made an i3 K-series? Other than demolishing what's left of AMD, it would be a boon for an entry level gaming PC.
 
pxc said:
Not bad for a "$72.00" processor.
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Maybe a little less if you live near a Microcenter:

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"Scan", who is a seller of the pentium g3258 processor and has no vested interest in promoting the product, went through 347 g3258 cpu's and found a single one that overclocks to 4.5Ghz on air when overvoltaged to very dangerous levels.

This seems like a bad source of information, that's why we're reporting it to you! -some hardware site
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That's how I read it anyways. I'm not a pessimist :D
 
Was really thinking it go to 5. One example on air is hardly noteworthy but can't help but being disappointed the first result I saw wasn't something like 5.5ghz-on-water-omg-nerd-wood
 
I have the G3420 and in BF4 it runs 100%. Super laggy with a 270x (fine with my other CPUs and even higher settings) where a medium+ sized battle is taking place.

The charts look sexy, but running a CPU at 100% on the edge of a bottleneck or insane framerate crash + death is not at all like running an i5 or i7 all the time in any size game, no worry, etc.

Other than gaming the day-to-day stuff isn't really noticeable other than loading up a # of software at once and my PDF creator takes more time, things like that.
 
THG has a review and compares it to the 4 core Athlon X4 750K (Piledriver based). It isn't pretty for the Athlon X4, where the stock dual core Pentium G3258 @ 3.2GHz often beats the overclocked 750K. The difference wouldn't have changed much with an A10-7850K (more efficient, lower clocked), but too bad it wasn't included in the testing, probably due to costing over 2x more than the 750 or g3258.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,3849.html

THG also got 4.5GHz/4.6GHz stable on their chip.
 
With the price of an i3 as it is, it seems this processor is just for people who would like to overclock for the fun of it and not really for performance reasons.

The cost of an i3 will be around the same price of this Pentium plus an average heatsink, and the i3 will still be the better all-arounder especially when you start using programs a little more multithreaded.
 
Rauelius said:
Why hasn't Intel made an i3 K-series? Other than demolishing what's left of AMD, it would be a boon for an entry level gaming PC.
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That would be a dream CPU for many people on a budget. My guess is Intel is avoiding an unlocked i3 for fear if canabolizing i5 sales which is a very real possibility.
 
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RamonGTP said:
That would be a dream CPU for many people on a budget. My guess is Intel is avoiding an unlocked i3 for fear if canabolizing i5 sales which is a very real possibility.
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As if i5-K isn't already stifling i3 sales (and has since Sandy Bridge, to be honest).
 
Rauelius said:
Why hasn't Intel made an i3 K-series? Other than demolishing what's left of AMD, it would be a boon for an entry level gaming PC.
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Because of the increased performance that HT brings to multicore tasks and games that use more than two cores would easily eat away at least the i5's market. Those things would be major little beasts...
 
jmilcher said:
Correct. But it is tweaked and changed, a slight variation other than just a unlock such as the chip this topic is about. Didn't mean to confuse anyone.
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DC is the exact same die as the pre-refresh Haswell...the only difference is a slight improvement in the package and in the DC chips, the TIM used.

No other improvements.

The Pentium G3258 chip is valuable as a plaything...not much more...it allows folks to acquire experience de-lidding a throwaway CPU and experience with voltages and such. If it breaks, no big deal...;)

It would also work decently as an inexpensive alternative in a kiddie's computer.
 
Nice job Intel getting cheapasses (raise hand) to buy stupid expensive chipsets. There are plenty of solid mini-itx mobos for $70. But need a z series chipset? Hello $160. The motherboard differential is literally more than the processor cost.
 
PGHammer said:
As if i5-K isn't already stifling i3 sales (and has since Sandy Bridge, to be honest).
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Umm, people buying a more expensive CPU over a cheaper one is a good thing for Intel. People buying a cheaper one over a more expensive one isn't. The whole idea is for companies to up sell.
 
seanclayton said:
Now tell me... why should gamers would pay more for other expensive CPU when we have this gaming beast going toe to toe with flagship quadcore. Too bad this is a one time thing for dualies.
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Theres still a small framerate hit. Resolution dependent ofc.
 
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