If you want a cheap gaming system, or an inexpensive overclocking tool, the latest Pentium could be just the thing.
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Intel Pentium G3258 20th Anniversary Review
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If you want a cheap gaming system, or an inexpensive overclocking tool, the latest Pentium could be just the thing.
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Ahh nice review Tom, the whole concept of the little Pentium K makes me happy and if I had any Z87/97 kit I would get one just for some overclocking fun. I thave an urge to pair one with a 750Ti and some overkill cooling and absolutely rape it, better finish αclass first.
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WYP
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Just think how great this pocket rocket of a CPU would be with hyper threading1
This is great move here by Intel, they release something that competes well in the low end while not taking the thunder away from the higher end i5 and i7s.
It is good to see a competitive low end CPU from Intel.
Perhaps now is the time for some recommended builds Tom?
This is great move here by Intel, they release something that competes well in the low end while not taking the thunder away from the higher end i5 and i7s.
It is good to see a competitive low end CPU from Intel.
Perhaps now is the time for some recommended builds Tom?
Wraith
Bettyswollocks
H105 is overkill? Oh dear.
Good review Tom! still very excited to get my hands on mine.
You say overkill, I say more thermal headroom
barnsley
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You say overkill, I say more thermal headroom
Personally I think my rad setup is a little bit more overkill
-edit- its a shame that this isn't the physical successor to the ol' unlocked i3 xxx cpus. they were an excellent idea.
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barnsley
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When my setups get built I'll be doing multiplayer comparisons between it and a 4770k (using a gtx 780).
Nogginthenog
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I enjoyed that one. There are quite a few £70ish H97 motherboards with overclocking options in BIOS now, and paired with this chip and a 750Ti gaming you could build a very decent every day rig that could play most games at higher settings at 1080p for not much money at all.
In fact, If I were still into MMO's. this would be my rig of choice I think. Low power, cool and quiet, enough umph to drive most of modern MMOs at decent settings.
In fact, If I were still into MMO's. this would be my rig of choice I think. Low power, cool and quiet, enough umph to drive most of modern MMOs at decent settings.
RickPlaysWarr
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Hi
Great review Tom. I am tempted just to buy one and pop it into the maximus VII Hero build that is on the workbench just to see how far I could push it.
The twins have been bugging me for their own machines for some time and I can see this in an mITX small build suiting them just fine for their Minecraft addictions. GTX 750ti or regular 750 would make a very sweet little machine.
--Rick--
Great review Tom. I am tempted just to buy one and pop it into the maximus VII Hero build that is on the workbench just to see how far I could push it.
The twins have been bugging me for their own machines for some time and I can see this in an mITX small build suiting them just fine for their Minecraft addictions. GTX 750ti or regular 750 would make a very sweet little machine.
--Rick--
Isn't Minecraft fairly taxing on the CPU side? If so, a dual core wont do too well.
WYP
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Does minecraft use more than two cores? I don't think it does.
I'm really not sure, but you are probably right.
WYP
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I definitely remember modding it to allow multi threading, so at least last time i was playing it it couldn't. Unless it is patched?
I was hoping your review will cover more in detail overclocking with non Z motherboards, after all the people buying this chip will try to overclock it on a cheap motherboard..
I wonder how far you could push it with an entry level H81 motherboard, sounds ridiculous, but it might be interesting.. I expect it to do some moderate OC no problem, I mean this chip doesn't consume that much power, so if a motherboard is designed to be able to feed a quadcore at stock, it should OC this baby no problem..
I might pick one up and a cheap h81 motherboard for fun.. Might make it a LAN rig.. I have my old 6870 and an extra stick of RAM laying around.
I wonder how far you could push it with an entry level H81 motherboard, sounds ridiculous, but it might be interesting.. I expect it to do some moderate OC no problem, I mean this chip doesn't consume that much power, so if a motherboard is designed to be able to feed a quadcore at stock, it should OC this baby no problem..
I might pick one up and a cheap h81 motherboard for fun.. Might make it a LAN rig.. I have my old 6870 and an extra stick of RAM laying around.
metalgun2000
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I'm really impressed that 2400mhz memory was running with the OC as well. This is exactly what people need. A nice entry into the world of overclocking. If I was just starting, I would certainly have no qualms about pushing this it's absolute limit. I might have to get one and have a play with it myself. I'm curious about what would happen if I used both of my 780s with it. Even in the 3d mark results, it suggests that it wasn't even holding back the 780 ti much, 2 - 3% maybe in fire strike extreme just in the graphics score? 400 points in extreme is a fair bit of difference but I'd say that as due to the cpu score.
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