Pentium G3258 "Anniversary Edition" overclocked to 6.7GHz

[BiG StroOnZ]

 

 

Intel Corp.’s Pentium G3258 “anniversary edition” central processing unit promises to become a hit among overclockers in budget. Unfortunately, so far only engineering samples of such chips have demonstrated extreme clock-rates. Nonetheless, a South Korean enthusiast has managed to prove that production versions of the chip are also capable of hitting extreme frequencies.

NameGT, a well-known performance enthusiast, has managed to overclock production version of the Intel Pentium G3258 “anniversary edition” to whopping 6708MHz using liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling, an Asrock Z97 OC Formula mainboard as well as a G.Skill TridentX 4GB DDR3 memory module. Unfortunately, to hit the extreme clock-rate it was necessary to disable one core and increase the Vcore voltage to 1.949V.

 

 

 

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Not sure if re-post, tried searching like four times. 

[Katsu-K1L]

-Clap-

thats awesome.

Really awesome.

but meeeeeh

[BonBon Scott]

That's okay for such a cheap chip.

[Levent]

almost 2volt nice

[Liam-McShane]

That honestly isn't that high.

[Kevinkt]

lol@ people not impressed. alot of people can't get over 4.8 or passed 5.0 at all with it. so it's pretty nice for him

[Kevinkt]

http://valid.canardpc.com/q0tc0h

 

Try harder.

"one core".

[BiG StroOnZ]

That honestly isn't that high.

 

The world record for a 4790k is 7.0GHz, how is that not high?

[Liam-McShane]

The world record for a 4790k is 7GHz, how is that not high?

Well because of this: http://www.techpowerup.com/185740/amd-a10-6800k-cracks-8-00-ghz-mark.html 

 

AMD A10-6800K @8Ghz on all 4 cores. Now that is impressive.

[BiG StroOnZ]

Well because of this: http://www.techpowerup.com/185740/amd-a10-6800k-cracks-8-00-ghz-mark.html 

 

AMD A10-6800K @8Ghz on all 4 cores. Now that is impressive.

 

It's on Intel cores though, which are much faster than AMD cores:

 

[Kevinkt]

Don't tun this in to an Intel vs AMD thread. That's not the point in extreme overclocking anyway.

He's not? by saying "don't turn into intell vs amd thread" you are turning it into one

 

It's fact that intell has better single core. and amd has slower cores. 

[BiG StroOnZ]

Don't tun this in to an Intel vs AMD thread. That's not the point in extreme overclocking anyway.

 

My point is many years ago back around in 2003 Intel and AMD were at wars themselves with who had the faster chip. AMD's original FX series on the Athlon 64 was much faster than the Pentium 4. But the Pentium 4 held all the records for speeds (GHz), meanwhile the Athlon 64 was still faster at lesser speeds and was able to beat it in the same benchmarks that the Pentium 4 was running at even at higher speeds.

 

Case in point, a 6.7GHz or 7.0GHz Intel chip is some serious power. 

 

The roles have swapped. Intel now goes for more IPC while AMD goes for pure speed. When back in 2003 it was vice versa. 

[BiG StroOnZ]

Fuck this shit, I'm out.

 

Nothing even happened. What are you saying?

[shujin]

Well this is super cool I hope that it will increase a little bit more.

[ericlee30]

Thats what Im talking about, that little cpu flat out kicks ass

[RainbowPee]

What GPU is that. I looks like a bundle of celery.

[Unhelpful]

Fuck this shit, I'm out.

Why are you out? Nothing they said was wrong... I love AMD, but even they wont deny that their single-core performance is lower on average.

[mr.squishy]

Oh look, it's that Galaxy Fishbone GPU we saw a while back. It's probably a 750ti or some lower end card

[Mister Snow]

Why are you out? Nothing they said was wrong... I love AMD, but even they wont deny that their single-core performance is lower on average.

Guys, you missed the point he was aiming at. With extreme overclocking it is not important which is faster for use in real world, it's just about GHz and AMD holds a record with their FX8350 @ 8794 MHz. Yes, AMD has lower IPC and blablabla (all the stuff that has been discussed a 10000 times before on this forum) but that is not the point of it. If you could overclock a potato to 10 GHz than a potato would hold a record even if it can't do anything with that speed (dumb example but just to make a point).

 

As for the news goes, that is one fine overclock for a Pentium. 

[Humbug]

^^Yep exteme overclocking is just a numbers sport.

It's not about performance because you can't use those speeds for anything. The machine crashes if you try to do anything. So you can't even run a benchmark.

[Redheadsrule13]

"Ermagherd, not 999GHZ, try harder!"
Don't. Just don't.

Anyway, an $80 chip at 6.7 and almost 2V? Very nice. 

[BiG StroOnZ]

Guys, you missed the point he was aiming at. With extreme overclocking it is not important which is faster for use in real world, it's just about GHz and AMD holds a record with their FX8350 @ 8794 MHz. Yes, AMD has lower IPC and blablabla (all the stuff that has been discussed a 10000 times before on this forum) but that is not the point of it. If you could overclock a potato to 10 GHz than a potato would hold a record even if it can't do anything with that speed (dumb example but just to make a point).

 

As for the news goes, that is one fine overclock for a Pentium. 

 

The point is you should be comparing overclocks to other Intel chips, not to a completely different architecture. If you are going to compare the overclock that this chip got you need to be comparing it to the current World Record for the modern Intel chips. AMD is on a different architecture, Intel's chips won't even allow overclocks to go above 8 GHz due to restrictions with the multiplier and base clock. So you're comparing apples to oranges, and entirely missing the point in general. 

[Mister Snow]

The point is you should be comparing overclocks to other Intel chips, not to a completely different architecture. If you are going to compare the overclock that this chip got you need to be comparing it to the current World Record for the modern Intel chips. AMD is on a different architecture, Intel's chips won't even allow overclocks to go above 8 GHz due to restrictions with the multiplier and base clock. So you're comparing apples to oranges, and entirely missing the point in general. 

Well, I can't agree with that. You are right to a certain point but than again, we are talking about overclocking competition here so you must look at the the whole range of x86 CPU's. It is completely fine to say that it overcolcks well compared to other Intel products but that category has to be pointed out because otherwise it could be said that AMD's FX8350 is the fastest CPU which it is but only compared to other AMD CPU's.  

 

It's not that important really, just explaining.

[BiG StroOnZ]

Well, I can't agree with that. You are right to a certain point but than again, we are talking about overclocking competition here so you must look at the the whole range of x86 CPU's. It is completely fine to say that it overcolcks well compared to other Intel products but that category has to be pointed out because otherwise it could be said that AMD's FX8350 is the fastest CPU which it is but only compared to other AMD CPU's.  

 

It's not that important really, just explaining.

 

You can't fully agree yet you used AMD's world record of 8794 MHz on an 8350 as an example to compare the chips overclock to when current Intel chips cannot go above 8 GHz due to restrictions with the multiplier and base clock. It's physically impossible for a modern Intel chip to clock that high. Hence my reasoning for stating the importance to compare the overclocks to other Intel chips not to a completely different architecture. It's just not possible to clock that high on modern Intel chips. So using it as a comparison is pointless.  

[virtualTune]

does anyone know what the highest OC is on water?