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Guru3D.com » Review » Pentium 20th Anniversary G3258 Processor Review 4

Pentium 20th Anniversary G3258 Processor Review 4

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/01/2014 09:08 AM [ 17 comment(s) ]

We review the Pentium G3258 (also dubbed Pentium-K) processor. The Pentium 20th Anniversary Edition / G3258 processor features an unlocked multiplier and will be all about nostalgia on a modern CPU socket with tremendous OC potential. That's right, you can seat this Pentium processor into Socket LGA1150 and then have some great fun. We actually managed to overclock this 3200 MHz processor, towards 4800 MHz!

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Twiddles
Senior Member



Posts: 1155
Posted on: 07/01/2014 12:15 PM
No they had one batch last week, but it was sold out real fast ... Informatique has them in stock at 65 EURO though.


Aah thanks! I'll give them a call!

Fender178
Senior Member



Posts: 4198
Posted on: 07/01/2014 12:59 PM
4.8ghz from 3.2 not too shabby. I have seen screen shots of this cpu @5ghz but that might have been a hoax or the people who did it had a golden chip. Im thinking with decent air cooling such as the hyper evo 212 that you might be able to OC to at least 4.0 on stalk volts.

Hilbert what was the highest OC you got with this chip on stock volts?

CPC_RedDawn
Senior Member



Posts: 9392
Posted on: 07/01/2014 01:37 PM
Good competition against the FX 4300 & the 760K. May tip the balance in the budget build I plan on doing. I just hope the H Series M-ITX boards become overclockable like ASUS/MSI say.


Why go for the H series M-ITX board when you can get a decent very well priced Z87 M-ITX board from both ASUS and MSI and have the full benefits of LGA1150 and Z87 on one board?

You also have the option to upgrade the CPU in time when current high end Z87 chips drop in price for a very nice upgrade.


Back on topic:

Honestly though this chip costs pennies and performs extremely well, however, I find it hard to justify spending so much more on cooling it just the get the most out of it. The chip costs sub $80 yet a H110 used in the review costs around $100. To me that is a bit silly spending more on pretty high end cooling just to cool such a low end chip. Sure the overclock potential is there, but if its not for aesthetics of the rig (ie proper full blown custom water loop) then it is not worth spending more money on a cooler than on the chip.

For just over $100 you could get a nice quad core CPU that would overclock slightly, and perform better in most modern day multi threaded apps than this 2 core CPU. They could of at least slapped on Hyper Threading to this chip then I would be very impressed.

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Posts: 44344
Posted on: 07/01/2014 02:21 PM


Hilbert what was the highest OC you got with this chip on stock volts?

Depending on your batch and mobo it will differ I guess, but roughly 4.1 GHz, after that you'll need extra juice.

schmidtbag
Senior Member



Posts: 6668
Posted on: 07/01/2014 03:44 PM
Pretty decent performance for the price, and I like the overclockability. The only thing I find really off-putting is it's default wattage is higher than I expected. Knowing how you can overclock many intel CPUs by nearly 1GHz without increasing the voltage, you'd think intel would just drop the volts by .1 or .2.

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