Intel Core i7 4790K & Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition

[LinusTech]

Where to buy links for Core i7 4790K

NCIX: http://bit.ly/1sp1GRb

Amazon: http://georiot.co/48zK

 

Where to buy links for Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition

NCIX: http://bit.ly/1uhrsat

Amazon: http://georiot.co/dY4

 

TWO overclocking beasts today! The Core i7 4790K and Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition!

 

[Albatross]

Yes, finally, the video!

 

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Great video!

 

Seeing as I want a more consistent overclocking experience, I do want to upgrade to the Devil's Canyon CPU. :lol: And definitely was surprised by the Pentium G3258. Now I know what to put in a cheap build with a kick!

[Fate]

Woo! Finally!

[Serib]

I need all the oc CPUs in and around my face immediately. Balls. I have no money

[Fate]

Welp, now I know what I'm going to get the next time I build someone a budget PC for gaming/everyday tasks (Pentium G3258)

[WillFromGA]

Great video!

[Bagmup]

That Pentium is a little beast in game.

[Lays]

time to buy juan

[iNothing]

Yay

[KamiKatze]

I need to overclock my i5 this summer or i will look like a fool!

 

Can't wait for that overclocking guide that you mentioned. I hope you will use a MSI motherboard because it is so much more complex and confusing than ROG boards. I never really got to a satisfying overclock because all the options are just confusing!

[TopWargamer]

In regards to the sponsor (Ting), I did that calculator thingy aaaaaand, I wouldn't be saving anything.

 

This is ABOUT how much I use every month, about, so I just kept the same variables in each.

 

 

And the results...

(And I even keep my phone connected on WiFi whenever I can...)

 

Just something funny that I thought I would share. Not saying saying people shouldn't go look at Ting and whatnot. I do really love how you can pick and choose your minutes, messages, data, etc., whereas just about any other carrier you cannot. So that there is a plus, although IMO T-Mobile would be a better deal...and their network is a bit better than Sprint's...especially their LTE network (speed wise, dunno about coverage wise...)

 

As a side note, paying $30 for a T-Mobile plan that gives me 100 minutes, unlimited texting, and 5GB of 4G/LTE data with unlimited 2G speeds after that (so technically unlimited data).

[Inkz]

Hey Linus at 6:42 you say overclocking boards from the green team, which is Nvidia. AMD is red team.

[sisu]

but how does the devil compare to the eg. 4770k or other cpu's it might be replacing/competing with

[awesomeness1919]

Any idea what GPU was used in these benchmarks??

[lani100]

The pentium looks nice tho.

Might get one for my brothers cheap gaming build and oc the crap out of it.

[nosirrah123]

Hey Linus at 6:42 you say overclocking boards from the green team, which is Nvidia. AMD is red team.

Its a mistake Linus has made in the past. It kills me a little every time he says it.

[nosirrah123]

So how does the Pentium stack up against the 6300? I'd imagine the 6300 would win in cpu-bound games.

[Flojer0]

I commented on the youtube vid but I'll put this here since the youtube comment will sink into the depths of the internets before we know it.

 

"I've been using ting for my wife an I and it has been amazing. It saves us $50 a month. The only downside is we needed to buy sprint phones to jump aboard, but the plan has long since made up for that investment."

[virtualTune]

worth upgrading from a 4770K? It sounds like the overclocking ability of this chip is better, but since I got a very good 4770K I wonder how much of a difference it will really make. I'd love to get 5GHz without having to turn off HP.

[Ren]

So how does the Pentium stack up against the 6300? I'd imagine the 6300 would win in cpu-bound games.

 

 

If what people say is true, this performs almost equally, if not better, to the 6300 in anything that doesn't benefit from a ton of cores (encoding, certain games). I've not seen direct proof myself but I'm willing to give it the benefit of doubt that this is worth picking up over an FX-6300 in 9 out of 10 scenarios. The cost difference just doesn't make the 6300 appealing anymore, and it's been steadily going up in price for the past 4 months anyway.

 

Edit:

To kind of elaborate on the performance differences, I was told that clock-for-clock, the 4670k will operate at roughly twice the performance of an FX-6300. This G3258 has half as many cores as a 4670k, therefore it's roughly half as fast and it can still overclock to almost any attainable FX-6300 speed on the vast majority of chips and coolers. That doesn't necessarily mean it'll match the FX-6300 in everything but in gaming, I don't think it'd be much difference. The thing that the G3258 might be faster than the FX-6300 in is singlethreaded processing. The 6300 has a much lower singlethreaded rating in benchmarks than the G3258, which is common compared to most Intel chips anyway.

 

 

 

This is your new budget CPU unless you are on an ultra-low budget, which I recommend you go for an Athlon X4 740/760k (760k if you plan on OCing a bit). You can find really cheap FM2/FM2+ motherboards and, assuming the H97 rumors are just rumors, you'd be spending something like $80-$90 on a board for the G3258.

[MuZeVII]

Linus, you mentioned that the 4790K features a 100MHz clock speed improvement over the 4770K but it doesn't. Intel have pushed the base clock up to 4GHz and the boost clock up to 4.4GHz, which is a 500MHz boost! It's this guaranteed out-of-the-box performance that is one of the big selling points of Devil's Canyon, alongside the use of a new thermal interface etc.

[wpirobotbuilder]

Definitely going 4790K for my first PC.

 

Would like to see the future guide show some results at reasonable voltage levels.

[flibberdipper]

I want the Pentium sooooo bad.

[WedgeTalon]

In regards to the sponsor (Ting), I did that calculator thingy aaaaaand, I wouldn't be saving anything.

 

I've looked at Ting in the past and I'm also a 2%. I think that basically it comes down to: if you're a "heavy" (3+ GB) data user, Ting is probably either barely cheaper or more expensive. Last time I priced Ting for my family (3 phones) it would have been slightly cheaper than my Sprint plan... until you consider the cost of upgrading all 3 phones every 2 years to the newest flagship. If you're a lighter user though I would definitely suggest giving them a try, I've heard they have crazy awesome support (though I've honestly been very happy with Sprint's support personally so *shrug*) and have some very dedicated fans.

[Mao_Zedong]

Amazon says that the pentium has four cores, its two cores right? it also says it only works with 1333 mhz ram. @LinusTech