Intel Pentium G3258 Dual Core Processor Gaming Performance Review

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In other words, expect it to disappear off the market soon, skyrocket in price or be perpetually out of stock.

Also the Pentiums are far from low-end, that would be the Celeron.
 
Looks like this is going to be my next CPU. I currently have a 5 year old E6400 and DDRII RAM which is seriously getting long in the tooth.

Only problem which I'm now sitting with is I'll need a new motherboard and RAM as well :(
 
YingYang said:
Looks like this is going to be my next CPU. I currently have a 5 year old E6400 and DDRII RAM which is seriously getting long in the tooth.

Only problem which I'm now sitting with is I'll need a new motherboard and RAM as well :(
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That shouldn't set you back more than R2k. Just throw in a decent GPU and you've got a decent gaming PC :)
 
Decent boards can be had for under R1000, if you don't need things like SLI/Crossfire or a bazillion SATA ports. A bit more if you intend to overclock.
 
A sub R600 mobo will be sufficient but the price of RAM is step.
 
Fox1 said:
A sub R600 mobo will be sufficient but the price of RAM is step.
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R600 boards will not be able to overclock this chip that well. Some H87/H97 variants with 4+2 phases might bump it up to 4.0-4.2GHz, but a decent Z97 board for around R2k would be a better bet.

Don't count on Intel not disabling overclocking on non-Z boards either.
 
NAG - Wesley said:
R600 boards will not be able to overclock this chip that well. Some H87/H97 variants with 4+2 phases might bump it up to 4.0-4.2GHz, but a decent Z97 board for around R2k would be a better bet.

Don't count on Intel not disabling overclocking on non-Z boards either.
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R800 CPU with a R2k motherboard? :wtf: If you're going for a high-end board, why would you be wasting time trying to get a value for money CPU? Just buy a Core i5 then and get hyper-threading and faster RAM support thrown in.
 
XiandreX said:
It has already been confirmed that Asus boards will get unlocked bios update for the features required to overclock on the non Z boards. Just an FYI
I don't see why other manufacturers wouldn't follow.
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Intel can, at any time, disable overclocking for those boards, though. The same thing happened with Ivy Bridge and Haswell launch boards. And the same thing will happen here.
 
NAG - Wesley said:
Intel can, at any time, disable overclocking for those boards, though. The same thing happened with Ivy Bridge and Haswell launch boards. And the same thing will happen here.
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Only if you do the BIOS update.
 
TJ99 said:
R800 CPU with a R2k motherboard? :wtf: If you're going for a high-end board, why would you be wasting time trying to get a value for money CPU? Just buy a Core i5 then and get hyper-threading and faster RAM support thrown in.
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Its a cheaper chip for overclockers to begin with, for one and its a stepping stone to a Devil's Canyon or Broadwell-K CPU. I'd never recommend one for a system that wont have a Z87/Z97 board in it, as a G3220 will perform just as well in GPU-limited scenarios. There are plenty of people out there who accept a crappier board in return for a better CPU, whereas the G3258 allows them to get a better board instead, use the chip for a while and save up for a K-series i5 or i7. Plenty of people do this already with a G3220, but that chip wont overclock nicely.

TJ99 said:
Only if you do the BIOS update.
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Intel regularly uses Windows Update to push out microcode updates, so you'd have to disable that as well. That's how they stopped people overclocking on H77 boards and this is why you can't exploit Turbo Boost on Z-series boards and locked processors, because they also stopped that with Haswell.
 
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