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G3258 - not impressed

I know people say that you can get great results from overclocking the Pentium G series but I can't help but feel scrimping on the CPU when building a system you're planning on overclocking is a bad idea.

If you're buying a £60 CPU and a £30-40 CPU cooler to overclock it then wouldn't it make more sense just to put the money into buying a faster CPU at that price point? Certainly from most of the benchmarks I've seen a stock I3 for £100-ish would be better value than an overclocked Pentium G3258 plus the cost of the CPU cooler?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8232/...y-edition-review-the-intel-pentium-g3258-ae/2

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8232/...y-edition-review-the-intel-pentium-g3258-ae/3

Doesn't seem to make any sense going for a Pentium/CPU cooler and overclocking when you could have a stock Core-i3 for the same money unless I'm missing something? Granted, in a handful of single threaded benchmarks the OC'd Pentium wins but in general the i3 seems superior and that's before you factor in that you could OC the i3 in future for further gains. Even in most of the gaming benchmarks there are quite a few (eg. Battlefield 4) where the Pentium holds back performance substantially compared to an i3.

Seems like a false economy buying this with the intention of overclocking it as far as I can tell?
 
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I know people say that you can get great results from overclocking the Pentium G series but I can't help but feel scrimping on the CPU when building a system you're planning on overclocking is a bad idea.

If you're buying a £60 CPU and a £30-40 CPU cooler to overclock it then wouldn't it make more sense just to put the money into buying a faster CPU at that price point?
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There is no need for an after market cooler unless you are planning on replacing the cpu in the future and just want to be ready.

The cpu clocks well on the stock cooler. Mine clocks really well on the stock cooler 4.4 at stock volts, but it might be a good CPU to start with.


OP: Often find that fold have not seated all 4 corners of the intel stock cooler down, usually because of not being used to the mechanism and/or putting the heatsink on while the main board etc are already in situ in the case, so they cant see if the progs have gone all the way in.

I would turn the pc on for 5 mins (get the stock paste slightly warmed up) then whang the board out of the case (with the heatsink on) and make sure all the progs are down.

One probably is not, and you might get away with getting it all the way down without having to remove the heat sink.
 
Would an overclocked one of these be a good stop gap until Broadwell comes out? (later this year?)

I'm thinking of a new mobo (1155 to 1150) but I don't think buying a Haswell i5/i7 at the minute would give me much VFM.
 
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