Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 - How good is it?

[Bryan Kortez]

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

 

[Bryan Kortez]

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.

 

[Bryan Kortez]

If your main workload is single threaded then the G3528 is perfect.

Great news. I'll get it set up on a bench and see what clock speed I can get from it.

 

[Bryan Kortez]

It will be rubbish, send it to me and i'll use it for my rubbish computer build haha!

Awww dam.. I thought it was going to work fine.. I'll get it posted out to you right away

 

[Bryan Kortez]

sweet! lol i have everything apart from the CPU.

I think i will be going for the G3258 and if need be upgrade to i7 later.

Nice I've never seen the point in the i7 for what I use my PC for. I've got an i5 4670K @4.2 in my main PC, can complain about it at all