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Juicy_vessel

Juicy_vessel

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Looking at ditching my AMD Kabini 5350 in favour of fhr Pentium G3258 but there are that many mobos out there H81 B85 and Z97. Which mobo will guarantee overclocking ability?

Thanks
 
stulid said:
Not guaranteed tho.

You just never know what Intel will do with micro code updates etc to try and stop the lower boards doing what the premium chipset does.
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I know Intel were trying to stop some of the board manufacturers from providing bios updates, to enable OC'ing for the budget boards.
What about the Z87 boards with a bios update?
 
Z87 should be fine and all boards should clock the CPU if supported, I can't see Intel ruining that platform.
 
If you don't update the bios past one that overclocks then overclocking won't be affected as the microcode update is in the bios. I just don't see the point of spending money on a Z series board for a cpu that can be had for well under £50.

OP, have a search for G3258/Pentium Anniversary edition threads on here. Quite a few people where having varying degrees of success with H81 and B85 boards. I think the best was 4.7Ghz on a Asus H81 board but as usual with Haswell based cpu's, it is the cpu that's the limiting factor.
 
You can overclock on ASRock Fatal1ty B85 or MSI B85-G43 Gaming but they usually cost same as Z97.
I have gigabyte b85m-d3h (rev 2) and it will overclock as well but voltage is limited to 1.2
 
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That's interesting because the wifes B85M-D3H is a revision 1.1 and the voltage can be increased beyond 1.3v. I used 1.275v to do a quick overclock on my 4670K in the board just to see if it could be done.
 
pastymuncher: are u on the New bios with improvement on k cpu? I'm still on FA and FB in description have "Improve Intel K-sku CPU performance" once I have time I'll update bios and then try to overclock
 
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That was on the F9 bios. I haven't updated it since as all I wanted to do was see if I could clock my 4670K on it and then got it back in my pc. The board is in the wifes pc with a G3420 so doesn't really need to be updated for her use. I have been tempted to get a G3258 though just to see what it will do. F9 isn't on their website any longer although I do have it saved on a backup drive. It was released in Feb so no support for Haswell refresh/DC/Penium Anniversary.

 
I think a modestly priced Z97 is worth it for future-proofing. Can always drop a Broadwell into it when they arrive (unless Intel does another evil socket change grr)...
 
I bought a Z97 PC-Mate and one of these to play with. 4.4GHz on the stock cooler within comfortable temp limits! :D
 
Juicy_vessel said:
MSiI PC Mate? Also how does it feel in and around Windows only bekng Dual Core?
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Yes that is the one. It felt very snappy for general desktop use. I think I would have found it difficult to tell the difference between the Pentium at 4.4GHz and my 2500K at 4.6GHz (in my main system) for general tasks.

I don't have it anymore, I sold it to my friend who has it in his gaming PC along with an R9-270X. He seems very happy with it and the system apparently "blew him away" compared to his 3.2GHz Q6600 and HD6850.

He was concerned about going from a quad to a dual, but after I showed him some benchmarks he seemed more than satisfied. :)
 
The wifes pc is a Gigabyte B85M-D3H, G3420 and 8Gb of Sammy greens (overkill I know but really tight timings at 1600mhz and it was cheap from the MM) along with a 60Gb SSD and a 500GB hdd for storage. Graphics is by the Pentiums onboard gpu. She came from a E7200 at stock, 4GB ddr2 and a ATI 4650 gpu. The system is really snappy, boots quicker than my rig (:mad::confused::mad:) and plays her crappy facebook games and youtube vids while pulling less than 50w from the wall. She is chuffed to bits with it and I must say that I was impressed by the little Pentium when I put it together.
 
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