Performance of a g3258

[Snaeb_aka_Beans]

So a customer of mines brother brought his pc to me to look at. He tried to put a fx-6300 into a z87 mpower board. Well he somehow didn't break anything just for went the 8 pin cpu connector. So I fixed it, cleaned up a few things, updated windows and drivers and began to oc it for him.

I figured why have a 250 dollar board and a 60 dollar could at stock. It has a gtx 670 in it as well. He complained about the pcb couldn't hang well with newer games. So I got it dialed in at 4.2ghz on the stock cooler stable and under 75*C. Will he see a nice gain despite still 2 cores? I don't have any experience with this chip. I know day to day and rendering my 4790k at 4.5ghz helped alot.

[Enderman]

[Hieb]

I haven't personally used the G3258 but from what I've gathered reading various articles, reviews, and watching performance tests on YouTube... when the G3258 struggles, it does so because of only being able to run two threads, so it can't schedule things very efficiently. The G3258 usually doesn't just (if at all) have low average framerate, rather it suffers from stuttering, freezes and periodic big fps drops. Overclocking doesn't fix these things as far as I know.

 

I mean just to give you an idea, even when overclocked to like 4.5GHz the G3258 is usually outperformed by an i3

 

In any games that will run fine on two thread CPUs (such as World of Warcraft, older games, I suspect most mobas would do well...) the G3258 will generally be ample fast enough to drive the GTX 670, and the overclock will certainly help with that... but in more robust modern titles like GTA V or the likes, the G3258 isn't gonna provide particularly smooth gameplay regardless if it's OCed or not.

[salecar3]

Wtf did HE LOOK AT THE SOCKET OR DID any research and why not get a cpu cooler? You can go hier on pentium no problem

[Raudi_]

I ran the G3258 and that I would say is a downgrade

[Snaeb_aka_Beans]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBfXruwe8w4

4.2ghz is where I usually dial in at. I feel comfortable with for PCS that aren't in my house.

[typographie]

The G3258 can be impressively powerful in certain applications. When it does well, it does really well. It's a great CPU for older, lightly-threaded games like Starcraft 2, Dota 2, LoL, WoW, etc.

 

It's hit or miss with newer stuff, though. Some games struggle a bit with only two non-Hyperthreaded cores, and there's even a few silly games that refuse to start up at all. Based on some benchmarks I've seen, it tends to affect frame latency a bit more harshly than i3's as well. An i3 is a safer bet.

[Snaeb_aka_Beans]

The G3258 can be impressively powerful in certain applications. When it does well, it does really well. It's a great CPU for older, lightly-threaded games like Starcraft 2, Dota 2, LoL, WoW, etc.

It's hit or miss with newer stuff, though. Some games struggle a bit with only two non-Hyperthreaded cores, and there's even a few silly games that refuse to start up at all. Based on some benchmarks I've seen, it tends to affect frame latency a bit more harshly than i3's as well. An i3 is a safer bet.

He's gonna save for a 4670k or 4690k.

[i_build_nanosuits]

So a customer of mines brother brought his pc to me to look at. He tried to put a fx-6300 into a z87 mpower board. Well he somehow didn't break anything just for went the 8 pin cpu connector. So I fixed it, cleaned up a few things, updated windows and drivers and began to oc it for him.

I figured why have a 250 dollar board and a 60 dollar could at stock. It has a gtx 670 in it as well. He complained about the pcb couldn't hang well with newer games. So I got it dialed in at 4.2ghz on the stock cooler stable and under 75*C. Will he see a nice gain despite still 2 cores? I don't have any experience with this chip. I know day to day and rendering my 4790k at 4.5ghz helped alot.

 

Let's just say that it's still an entry level CPU, and when it comes to modern demanding games it will struggle @Hieb does a very accurate description of how this will affect your gameplay.

That said, most games will do fine on medium settings which is what you should aim for with a GTX670...some games straight up don't like being run on a dual core CPU...

If he plan on buying a quad-core haswell CPU in the near future then it's good.

[typographie]

He's gonna save for a 4670k or 4690k.

 

Worth it, in my opinion.