Pentium G3258

[Half-Pint]

Hey guys, I just wanted to know what kind of overclocks other people got with their G3258. I bought mine a coupe of days ago and started to overclock yesterday.

Unfortunately, I was only able to get it to 4.2 ghz at 1.375v with 81°C hottest core at full load(which I'm really not comfortable with) so I just dumb it down for now or at least 

only ramp it up when Im gaming. I'm not totally disappointed with mine, It does everything I wanted it to so I still consider it a good buy. so what do you guys think? let me know

[Kevinkt]

what cooler do you have?

 

and yeah that a really bad chip. mine stable at stock voltage@ 4.2 and nevers goes past 65C with a shitty aftermarket cooler

[Guest]

A moment of silence for our comrade who has lost the silicon lottery.

[Kevinkt]

A moment of silence for our comrade who has lost the silicon lottery.

 

 

i don't understand. intel said these dyes were better for overclocking. oh well. i should push mine....just after i drop 100 bucks on a good cooler

[Manny Calavera]

i don't understand. intel said these dyes were better for overclocking. oh well. i should push mine....just after i drop 100 bucks on a good cooler

no, higher end chips are better binned( i7 4790k)

 

for overclocking, you have pure lottery

with like a athlon 760k you have higher chances going past 4.5 so i guess its a better buy and mobos are cheaper

Anniversary hype i will start recommending athlon x4 to people instead of pentium, its same budget anyway but better at multithread

 

and WUT 100$ on cooler, wow and 70$ cpu such balance, much performance

[Shrake907]

I pulled an alright chip from the lottery, I did some tinkering and found it bluescreens before OS loads @ 1.2V / 4.5 GHz. I settled on something relatively conservative, 4.3 GHz @ 1.19V

[Shrake907]

no, higher end chips are better binned( i7 4790k)

 

for overclocking, you have pure lottery

with like a athlon 760k you have higher chances going past 4.5 so i guess its a better buy and mobos are cheaper

Anniversary hype i will start recommending athlon x4 to people instead of pentium, its same budget anyway but better at multithread

 

and WUT 100$ on cooler, wow and 70$ cpu such balance, much performance

 

My G3258 does just fine with a Hyper 212 Evo inside of a N200 chassis. I could go higher on it easily, but I like the balance of performance / power consumption / temperature right now. X)

[Manny Calavera]

My G3258 does just fine with a Hyper 212 Evo inside of a N200 chassis. I could go higher on it easily, but I like the balance of performance / power consumption / temperature right now. X)

lucky guy, nice choice of components, whats your gpu? i suppose something like r9 270  or 750ti

[Shrake907]

lucky guy, nice choice of components, whats your gpu? i suppose something like r9 270  or 750ti

I'm in Alaska so electricity is expensive, therefore I went with a PNY GTX 750 Ti OC edition. X)

[Manny Calavera]

I'm in Alaska so electricity is expensive, therefore I went with a PNY GTX 750 Ti OC edition. X)

why not heat up igloo with a pc? nah joke good choice love maxwell.

soon we get APUs that are similar to HD7870 ( r9 270 ) performance, if they can make same APU as it is in consoles but smaller die.

then, wattage pulled from wall is cut in half

 

also i belive pny has quietest and coolest heatsink ye? i think so.  seen benches on web

[Shrake907]

why not heat up igloo with a pc? nah joke good choice love maxwell.

soon we get APUs that are similar to HD7870 ( r9 270 ) performance, if they can make same APU as it is in consoles but smaller die.

then, wattage pulled from wall is cut in half

 

also i belive pny has quietest and coolest heatsink ye? i think so.  seen benches on web

 

Yeah, it's also the highest factory overclock too! Seems like a good deal to use 'til Broadwell. My build is here:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RT2yt6

[Half-Pint]

@Kevinkt......Its seems like it, I have a Hyper 212 evo

 

@DEcobra11 Hyper 212 evo

 

@vishnureddy17 Indeed my friend, such a bad luck

 

@Shrake907 lucky son of a gun!! )

 

 

Thanks for the feedback guys!

[Deletive]

why not heat up igloo with a pc? nah joke good choice love maxwell.

soon we get APUs that are similar to HD7870 ( r9 270 ) performance, if they can make same APU as it is in consoles but smaller die.

then, wattage pulled from wall is cut in half

 

also i belive pny has quietest and coolest heatsink ye? i think so.  seen benches on web

hey woah, only canadians have igloo's. Infact we love having lan parties in our community igloos (sorta like community centres in america) 

OT: 4.2 at 1.375v is really high; most people get that around 4.6ghz  

[Deletive]

Speaking of the Pentium

idk follow this and see if anything can be changed.

[Half-Pint]

@Deletive.....I know man, Its frustrating. I was hoping to get 4.6 myself or 4.4 at least at that voltage. but oh well shit happens I guess.

[Shrake907]

@Deletive.....I know man, Its frustrating. I was hoping to get 4.6 myself or 4.4 at least at that voltage. but oh well shit happens I guess.

 

Where did you buy the chip? You could RMA it and see about pulling a winner from the lottery.

[Half-Pint]

Bought it on Newegg. I might consider it, but since I've been pretty busy lately I could barely find time to game let alone play around with my pc. but you never know man, thanks for the input shrake907. 

[Shrake907]

Bought it on Newegg. I might consider it, but since I've been pretty busy lately I could barely find time to game let alone play around with my pc. but you never know man, thanks for the input shrake907. 

 

G3258s are pretty inexpensive @ 70 bucks, right? You could perhaps sell the G3258 locally to someone who isn't a heavy overclocker and just purchase a new chip, if the cost of shipping it back to newegg is excessive.

Sure, no problem.

[Half-Pint]

G3258s are pretty inexpensive @ 70 bucks, right? You could perhaps sell the G3258 locally to someone who isn't a heavy overclocker and just purchase a new chip, if the cost of shipping it back to newegg is excessive.

Sure, no problem.

 

I'll definitely get to that at some point I just enlisted in the army and leaving in 2 months and I gotta move all my stuff in a storage unit and Im broke cause of this new pc so I gotta work more hours hehe but I'm definitely ask around to see if anybody wants a new cpu.

[Shrake907]

I'll definitely get to that at some point I just enlisted in the army and leaving in 2 months and I gotta move all my stuff in a storage unit and Im broke cause of this new pc so I gotta work more hours hehe but I'm definitely ask around to see if anybody wants a new cpu.

 

Ah, I see! Thanks for serving our country and best of luck with the CPU.