G3258 Gaming.

troops · 9 Mar 2015 at 02:35

Has anyone any experience with the G3258 at gaming, thinking of using it in a build as a stop gap till Broadwell is released.

YB2ndBEST · 9 Mar 2015 at 02:47

Yep, built a couple for friends. I've had one OC to 4.7ghz and the other to 4.5ghz. Using a 280x on both I tested BF4, Minecraft, WoT, LoL, Dayz, and a couple others. Overall it actually does very well except in BF4 where the fps is just slap ass all over the place (which I expected). If the game doesn't really make use of more than one or two cores you'll be set

malachi · 9 Mar 2015 at 06:22

Better off getting a 2nd hand i5. Don't believe Intel and their release window for Broadwell.

Dave2150 · 9 Mar 2015 at 06:41

troops said:
Has anyone any experience with the G3258 at gaming, thinking of using it in a build as a stop gap till Broadwell is released.

I'd hold onto your money until we see how the 65W Broadwell-K with Iris Pro performs, compared to the 4790k.

Skylake is also coming this year, which will bring with it a whole new generation of motherboard. Probably wiser to wait for that, unless you feel you need the extra performance now of course

Skiddley · 9 Mar 2015 at 07:52

I have one. alongside a 980. It's ok at 1080. Some games (Borderlands 2 for example) max the CPU when physX is on high, but most games run perfectly well.

My AE chip is only at 4.0 as it's on the stock HSF.

Morfinel · 9 Mar 2015 at 11:17

Im using one with r9 280 and its ok, trying to get used i5 but they are very linited and expensive :/

troops · 9 Mar 2015 at 14:24

Would it cope with say cod Ghosts or AW for the time being?
Planning on bumping it to 4ghz, not too concerned about monster clocks.

malachi · 9 Mar 2015 at 14:28

troops said:
Would it cope with say cod Ghosts or AW for the time being?
Planning on bumping it to 4ghz, not too concerned about monster clocks.

Will have to turn a lot of the settings down depending on what GPU you have.

troops · 9 Mar 2015 at 14:37

GPU will be a 280x

Divine Pain · 9 Mar 2015 at 16:33

Clocked mine to 4.5 Runs games like LoL fine no problems no stutters as long as nothing else is running in the background. Not even your web browser!

MrAnthony · 10 Mar 2015 at 11:15

My brother is using one at stock clock speed, paired with my old GTX460 Hawk and he loves it. Plays mainly simulations and racing games but it seems to be coping fine.

Probably going to grab one for myself in the next couple of weeks, also as a stop-gap before Broadwell arrives. Bought myself a Z97 board, so I feel somewhat committed to the upgrade now.

eddyr · 10 Mar 2015 at 13:38

MrAnthony said:
My brother is using one at stock clock speed, paired with my old GTX460 Hawk and he loves it. Plays mainly simulations and racing games but it seems to be coping fine.

Probably going to grab one for myself in the next couple of weeks, also as a stop-gap before Broadwell arrives. Bought myself a Z97 board, so I feel somewhat committed to the upgrade now.

Post back how you find it. Disabling 2 cores and HT on my i7 just to see, I would at best class it 'acceptable/could put up with until....'

MasterOC · 10 Mar 2015 at 14:26

Wife has hers @ stock paired up with a gigabyte z97m and 270x ... Hardline was 60fps @ high ... It was bottle necking but reached an acceptable outcome , runs dayZ standalone better then My 5820k & 980s when overclocked to 4.0 . At this price range I'd be inclined to still go AMD for the threading and multitasking as said befor , one application at a time with this baby . And be good at managing background application . For an unlocked dual core Haswell to throw around though it's great . Only game I had serious problems with was dieng light , border line unplayable often dropping to sub 30fps with everything turned off . Needs more threads .

Skiddley · 10 Mar 2015 at 14:58

dying light is maxed out here (mid level draw distance), with a 980, smooth as silk.

troops · 10 Mar 2015 at 15:07

Its for a friend of mine who just mainly plays the COD series, budget is very tight hence holding off for an i5.
Seems decent for a budget just a shame they don't do a i3 K.

Mrjobby · 11 Mar 2015 at 11:44

Low threaded games it will scream through.

Highly threaded games such as BF3 / BF4 will tank it.

troops · 11 Mar 2015 at 12:46

Just ran an I5 4570 with 2 cores disabled, plays Ghosts, AW at the same fps as 4 cores enabled.
Guess it will be a good stop gap.

spike2011 · 18 Mar 2015 at 13:03

troops said:
Has anyone any experience with the G3258 at gaming, thinking of using it in a build as a stop gap till Broadwell is released.

Thinking doing the same buying G3258 as a stop gap don't think Skylake over Broadwell will be worth the extra cost only be using my PC for gaming.

Darn price gone up to £59.99 £4 increase.

C64 · 31 Mar 2015 at 01:22

I'll be able to compare the G3258 to an i5 750 @ 4.1 ghz soon.

VRMadness · 1 Apr 2015 at 17:20

For non CPU intensive games its absolutely fine. For games that pressure the CPU and do not put entire load on GPU you may get a loss of frames but not enough to make it so its unplayable.