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Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 - How good is it?

Bryan Kortez

Bryan Kortez

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I am planning my next PC project which will mean taking apart my prodigy build, converting that to my work pc which will be fully air cooled (possibly a H100i I have spare to go on the processor). The main objective is reliability due to it being for work.

I happen to have a spare G3258 CPU that I have never used. How much performance can you get out of these with a good overclock?

The software I use is very similar to solidworks. It uses mainly the GPU for calculations and prefers OpenGL over DirectX.

The G3258 will be coupled with the following:
GPU: R9 270X Toxic 2GB
Ram: 2 x 4GB Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz DD3
SSD: 2 x 120GB running in Raid 1
 
It depends how threaded the workload is.
The G3258 clocked should give good performance in single-threaded or very lightly-threaded operations.
But a dual-core without Hyperthreading is behind the curve for threaded stuff.
Rendering, obviously is fully-threaded but I don't know if its a significant part of your workflow, if so, it's not a great choice.
But for viewport (editing) performance, most software is still lightly-threaded (though this is slowly changing).

Is it a CAD program ?
They are a bit different to the CG programs (Cinema 4D, Maya, Mudbox) that I know better. You sometimes get better results from a low-end pro card than a mid-range gaming card in a CAD program. In CG programs, low end pro cards end up being a lot slower. You'll need to a bit of research.

Hope that helps a bit, anyway.
 
I think the software just runs single core, don't think it's programmed for multiple threads. I don't currently do any rendering, it's basically a design package that I just draw in.

I'll have a read into some of the pro cards as well.

THanks.
 
4.5Ghz one here at 1.28 volts it's good enough for a lot of games but some key games will suffer a bit.

You can definitely notice more of a delay in day to day use than a quad, my old i5 750 quad at 4ghz was better.

It's fine as a stop gap or non main gaming pc though I certainly wouldn't buy one at new price rather add that £55 towards a quad core.
 
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They GO LIKE STINK!

4.4Ghz stable on mine at 1.25v i think it is and doesn't break high 50's temp wise on my second hand X40 cooler when hammering it with PCars and GTA V

for the money there is really nothing else close once you overclock it
 
As already mentioned, for single threaded they are very good, in the Cinebench benchmark the scores I got for single core on my G3258 @ 4.6 were within a few points of my 4790K @4.6. Of course it got thrashed by the i7 in the multi core test though.
Obviously overclocking is always a lottery but if you do stick that H100i on it then if you get a good chip you'll get a very big OC there, my 4.6 was with an H75 and I didn't really try very hard to push it to it absolute limits.
 
Well worth the £40 I paid but only as a stop-gap. Unfortunately, in my case I was waiting for Broadwell which turned out to be not worth waiting for lol so it'll soldier on for a while.

I'm on a very conservative 4.0GHz btw but definitely think 2 cores is not really enough nowadays, there is some stutter here and there which is hard to pin down but wasn't there on my Q6600.
 
I put one in my home server. It's a fantastic line between performance and f-all power consumption.

I also use it with Plex Server running and it can transcode two 1080p streams simultaneously without breaking a sweat. Not the most important use, but worthy none the less.

Overclocked to 4.3Ghz if I recall. I set it up once and never really touch it afterwards. Being running solid for around 6 months now without a single issue. Temps are amazing, never goes above 50c.

Amazing little package for an excellent price.
 
Love my g3258. Bought it as a stop gap but don't really see any need to upgrade yet. Sitting at 4.5ghz on a cheap b-grade AIO cooler. Practically silent and nice and fast for my uses. I haven't tried any of the handful of games that supposedly cause it to fall over and the only other place it suffers is when importing, rendering and developing photos simultaneously in Lightroom, but it normally clears the renders pretty fast and is nice and smooth again.
 
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