How bad is an overclocked pentium G3258 at playing games

[flibberdipper]

i think its just bf4

Damn.

[flibberdipper]

why do you want that laptop so bad or do you already have it?

What laptop?

[i_build_nanosuits]

yes your i3 performs better than your pentium buts also 50 dollars more and doesnt give you that much more performance to justify the price increase. the difference would be even less on a balanced gpu. but thank you for proving me somewhat wrong

...yes...but again, many people pair the pentium with a Z97 motherboard and a cpu cooler, which evens out the bills, here's the proof:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($69.99 @ Amazon)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.99 @ Newegg)

Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($93.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $193.96

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-15 22:31 EST-0500

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($109.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($69.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $179.97

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-15 22:35 EST-0500

see...as i mentionned i don't do these videos to bash on products and argue about them, i do them to educate...

and BTW, i'm not really recommending an i3 either...this is what i think should be the pick for a budget gaming build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($45.19 @ Amazon)

Total: $220.18

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-15 22:33 EST-0500

[flibberdipper]

someone just asked about bf3 on a low end laptop. maybe i confused you for someone else lol

Yeah...

[i_build_nanosuits]

you dont have to have a z97 board to overclock the pentium but honestly i would never buy a 40 dollar motherboard it just doesnt seem right

i've edited the post..re-read i'm sorry.

and many people in here think you need a Z97 board to overclock the pentium so MANY users end up buying them..

and that H81 motherboard is perfectly fine to use with any locked intel CPU...wheter it's an i3, an i5 or even an i7...it will allow for a better CPU and comes with a pcie 3.0 x16 slot...it's all you need to game.

[i_build_nanosuits]

thats their fault but atleast they can throw in an i5 later on and overclock it. newegg also does some pretty aweosme deals on the pentium sometimes, my friend got a msi z97 U3 and a g3258 for 100 US dollars thats 50 percent off what they would be if you bought them separate.

then this is a good deal indeed provided he won't:

1- Play mostly modern games and online cpu intensive stuff

2- he does not run a mid or high end graphics card (or at least he doesnt care having the card underperforming)

3- he plan an upgrade to an i5 or an i7 in the near future.

[SteveGrabowski]

Here's your video, the settings are exactly the same, server is full just like it was in the pentium video and to top it off i actually had to fight many players while recording...which i didnt even had the chance to do with the pentium and i bet it would have slowed it down even more:

This is core i3 at 3.4ghz (2 logical cores and 2 physical cores)

this is true for single-player mode...if you trow in multi-player maps and full server you'll see many cpu slowing down the paste.

This type of results are called GPU bound scenarios where the GPU is rendering all it can regardless of the cpu being used.

 

i3 + Nvidia GPU is a great combo. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

i3 + Nvidia GPU is a great combo. 

it is but i would personaly go no higher than GTX 770 or R9 280X on it...as you can see my GTX 780 is not getting fed all it can handle sometimes...there's a slight bottleneck.

[i_build_nanosuits]

you have to realize that no body is going to spend 500 dollars on a gpu and 70 on the cpu... with balanced gpus the pentium can easily eat up most games

you should see how often these days i'm being asked if the G3258 will bottleneck a GTX 970...that's the MAIN reason why this video was put together mate believe it or not..

[I/O]

you should see how often these days i'm being asked if the G3258 will bottleneck a GTX 970...that's the MAIN reason why this video was put together mate believe it or not..

Pentium should be synonyms with fail. Pentium IV anybody LOL.

[i_build_nanosuits]

didnt pentium 4 used to be the highest end intel made? i have one in the family desktop and it works just fine

yes but back then amd had mighty chips on the market and intel was rediculous...it used to be the other way around pretty much forever until kentsfield came out you know...advanced micro device has always been the leader putting out top of the line chips.

will amd make a come back in the future in the cpu market no one knows, but they certainly can.

[I/O]

didnt pentium 4 used to be the highest end intel made? i have one in the family desktop and it works just fine

It was an over hyped flop that ran hot and got seriously pitied by AMD Athlon64. My OCed Athlon64 3500+ ran circles around my friends P4 no competition at all. Intel has to pay out $15 bucks to owners of the P4 cause it was such a fail chip.

yes but back then amd had mighty chips on the market and intel was rediculous...it used to be the other way around pretty much forever until kentsfield came out you know...advanced micro device has always been the leader putting out top of the line chips.

will amd make a come back in the future in the cpu market no one knows, but they certainly can.

Ya I think it was when the Core2Duo brand came out that Intel started to pick up steam. Funny how many don't know that AMD was the go to CPU and Intel sucked something fearsome once upon a time. Goes to show the age demographic around here.

[i_build_nanosuits]

It was an over hyped flop that ran hot and got seriously pitied by AMD Athlon64. My OCed Athlon64 3500+ ran circles around my friends P4 no competition at all. Intel has to pay out $15 bucks to owners of the P4 cause it was such a fail chip.

correct, they went back to the pentium 3 after that to design the bases of the intel core cpu.

Ya I think it was when the Core2Duo brand came out that Intel started to pick up steam. Funny how many don't know that AMD was the go to CPU and Intel sucked something fearsome once upon a time. Goes to show the age demographic around here.

and even when phenoms chips came out they gave intel a run for their money.

[grimmjow660]

This is what I like, instead of people referring to synthetic benchmarks

[SteveGrabowski]

I miss the days when AMD was so awesome and had such great IPC. The Athlon XP's killed the shitty Williamette P4's and you didn't get stuck with overpriced RAMBUS.

[mrmonmon2]

Please report to the unbalanced rig thread immediately

[I/O]

correct, they went back to the pentium 3 after that to design the bases of the intel core cpu.

and even when phenoms chips came out they gave intel a run for their money.

The original Phenom chips were garbage. They ran hot and had terrible performance. When Phenom II came out and I think it was with the Phenom II x4 940 if I remember correctly is when Phenom became a powerhouse.To bad AMD remained stagnant with Phenom II and milked it for way to long. AMD did it before they can do it again.

[i_build_nanosuits]

This is what I like, instead of people referring to synthetic benchmarks

or linking unreliable sources from obscure parts of the internet ''cough'' tek syndicate... j/k

most testing on these at the time of release was done using non cpu intensive games and gpu bound scenarios and now we have people saying ''well i saw reviews and its as good as an i7 in games''...

glad you liked the video btw, make sure to link it if you come across any non-sense.

[I/O]

or linking unreliable sources from obscure parts of the internet ''cough'' tek syndicate... most testing on these was done using non cpu intensive games and gpu bound scenarios and now we have people saying ''well i saw reviews and its as good as an i7 in games''...

glad you liked the video btw, make sure to link it if you come across any non-sense.

Biased Boss and Game Debate have to be among the worse information on the internets that i have come across in resent times.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Biased Boss and Game Debate have to be among the worse information on the internets that i have come across in resent times.

yeah those are bad...REALLY bad...they compare products based on specs...like this ''AMD 8 core cpu at 4ghz should be faster at playing modern games over this quad core CPU from intel at 3.2ghz'' it's bullshit

They used to have some real numbers at the bottom when they've made actual real testing...they won't anymore it's just shit now.

[I/O]

yeah those are bad...REALLY bad...they compare products based on specs...like this ''AMD 8 core cpu at 4ghz should be faster at playing modern games over this quad core CPU from intel at 3.2ghz'' it's bullshit

They used to have some real numbers at the bottom when they've made actual real testing...they won't anymore it's just shit now.

Lets see here's a keeper LOL

 

http://www.game-debate.com/articles/index.php?a_id=2517&graphics=Radeon%20HD%207790%20Sapphire%20OC%20Edition

[wrath]

wasnt this obvious from the start?

i mean its a budget cpu no wonder

[I/O]

It's just that the hype lead people to believe that it was a good gaming proc but really it isn't.

[79wjd]

It's just that the hype lead people to believe that it was a good gaming proc but really it isn't.

Compared to an i5? No.

But considering how powerful it is for just $70, and how it can be fully utilized on a $40 board, does make it a compelling budget choice. A G3258+Asus H81-D will still cost less than an i3 alone; and for those who eventually plan on upgrading to a 4690k/4790k and/or multiple gpus it leads to only a $70 waste whereas an i3 would be a $120~ waste. 

[I/O]

Compared to an i5? No.

But considering how powerful it is for just $70, and how it can be fully utilized on a $40 board, does make it a compelling budget choice. A G3258+Asus H81-D will still cost less than an i3 alone; and for those who eventually plan on upgrading to a 4690k/4790k and/or multiple gpus it leads to only a $70 waste whereas an i3 would be a $120~ waste. 

I would not recommend trying to game on this proc. ... to much stuttering and low framerate spikes.