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G3258 still a great budget gaming chip?

Well I have seen a lot of people saying GTAV won't even run on a Pentium which I must say I find awfully odd.

I just read the back of the box for the game after trying for three days to find out how many computers you can install it on and apparently you can install it on more than one. You can have it on more than one PC but you can only be logged into Social Club on one PC at one time.

So hopefully I will be able to get it installed and see if I can get it to run. From what I have seen though it doesn't seem to care so much about threads, with people getting pretty much the same results on both the I5 and I7.

What sort of clocks do modern I3s run at? I know the Sandys were completely lame, something stupid like 3.2ghz.
 
I'd be interested to see how it benches compared to the Pentium. 3.7ghz is still pretty lame, would be far more interesting if it were 4-4.2.

As for the rumour that GTAV does not run on a Pentium? it seems that would be a large serving of BS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Z-tsC_4ng

I installed it on my rig but like a complete wally forgot that I had used a 32 bit OS. 7 dvds later and it refused to run because of the OS.

I won't be defeated though, am installing Windows 8.1 64 bit as we speak. I refuse to be beaten..

I'm just dying to know how much threading really helps GTAV. I have more than enough graphical grunt to take care of any game.

So far though I will admit, you don't really need more than a Pentium for a gaming rig. The results don't lie. The only game that seems to trip it up right now is Mafia II and I did have Physx on maximum, which seems to make it run like crap no matter how good your rig is.
 
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I'd be interested to see how it benches compared to the Pentium. 3.7ghz is still pretty lame, would be far more interesting if it were 4-4.2
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Pretty lame, it is only beaten by the 4790K 4 GHz, as far as pure clock speed goes, with the Intel chips. (non boost speeds, seeing as the i3's don't have boost)

As for GTA V I do hope you get it to work, as it will be interesting to see if it is playable on a Pentium at 3 GHz (G3220) seeing as that is what my nephew has and he wants to play it.
 
will try this on my daughters Pentium K 4 gig of ram and a 280x.

will be interesting.

funnily enough runs fine if a bit lacking in detail on my boys q9450 @3.6ghz 4 gig ram and a 6970
 
^Thats from review of an amd APU,so that 3770k is running the IGP for graphics,its clearly GPU bound lol
 
This thread has somewhat been derailed. Titan X is pointless for 1080p.

Is the G3258 great for a budget rig? Yes.

But not for anything serious with a high end GPU where you would be looking to play high settings without a bottleneck.
 
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^Thats from review of an amd APU,so that 3770k is running the IGP for graphics,its clearly GPU bound lol
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It's always the same regardless of what CPU you have or what GPU. The minimum FPS is always very low.

My main rig runs a 3970x and Titan Black SLI and the mins are just as bad.

How has the thread been derailed? I'm answering the title.
 
OK so I benchmarked GTAV on my Pentium. 1080p absolute max settings with 2XMSAA. I'm using about 3gb of the 6gb VRAM. Titan Black, CPU clocked to 4.2, VSYNC on (it was a stuttery mess without it oddly)

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
5111, 90000, 33, 60, 56.789

And an exact count of the frames here in the spoiler.

FPS
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42
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58

That's a 90 second run and was benched during the car race at the start (so through the city).

So basically I would say that a Pentium is more than good enough for GTAV, contrary to what some people may think. The min FPS also came as a bit of a stutter, but then please note I am only running 4gb of RAM in a 64 bit OS and GTAV recommends 8gb.
 
Also that is at max settings, turn a few setting down and it would run absolutely fine by the looks of it.
 
It runs fine as is to be honest. If you look at the Average FPS it's jammed right up there in the 50s so the lows are not commonplace.

Really looking forward to DX12 now ! I was going to put in a Xeon at £180 or so but now I'm not going to bother to be honest. Just no point and I can't justify the outlay.

I'm currently prepping the rig for the acid test, Crysis 3. I'm under no illusions whatsoever, it's going to fail.

Do I care? well no, not really. Crysis 3 is a poor game any way. Back with my findings later :)
 
Crysis 3 time...

:eek:

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
5076, 90000, 32, 95, 56.400


FPS
54
52
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52
58
62
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45
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75

Well blow me down with a feather. I'm amazed. No, in fact I can not find the words. Staggered would be closer to the mark.
 
Nice work.

The only thing that would concern me is the possibility of a future game denying access when using anything less than a quad core, which is why I mentioned Far Cry 4 earlier on.
 
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Telecaster said:
Nice work.

The only thing that would concern me is the possibility of a future game denying access when using anything less than a quad core, which is why I mentioned Far Cry 4 earlier on.
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Wow so FC4 wouldn't even run?

I'm not so worried dude tbh. DX12 should reverse that any way.
 
I had a Pentuim k in semi gaming capable system and the performance was all over the place. I replaced that system with a 860k quad core, and I've found it's all round a much better system and gaming is a lot smoother.

I think the days of building highly overclocked dual core systems are behind us TBH.
 
benchmarks don' t tell the full story with the chip I'll name just one game I play that suffered stutters and occasional slow downs with one at 4.5ghz, arma 3.
This chip is ideal for media functions but isn't a viable gaming cpu..i am back on an i5 750 @4.1 ghz and everything feels so much better again.
 
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