Pentium K Anniversary G3258 question

[ExoMale]

would an overclocked one of these better my i3? i know it doesnt have HT, i was just looking at the list on here and was curious.

 

[Borealis]

It depends what you're doing. For single-threaded applications, a clocked G3258 will beat the i3 @ 3.6GHz. Bear in mind that you can OC the G3258 to 4GHz on the stock Intel cooler. I had mine under a £20 Rajintek Themis and OC'd it to 4.2GHz at just above stock voltage.

For anything that requires multi-tasking/multi-threading, the i3 is better.

 

[David Bisset]

Worth highlighting that most games - even that are normally viewed as only needing two threads - run better on the i3 with more consistent frametimes. There are very few occasions the pentium wins so it'd be a downgrade overall - I'd not advise it unless you just want the fun of doing the overclocking.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

^As above. Wouldn't be a great move!

 

[Borealis]

I'd agree with this. My i5 4670K at 3.8GHz stock turbo, outperforms the G3258 at 4.2GHz in nearly everything. Even though the G3258 is running faster.

It is however a fun and inexpensive chip to learn how to OC with. The fact it's only £60 meant I wasn't too worried about getting it wrong and damaging the CPU. After all, it's a lot cheaper than an i5 4670K/4690K!

 

[pandem0nium]

I've got mine at 4.4 on the stock cooler @ 1.3v on a h81m-c that I hot for cheap on the mm.

One thing to bear in mind is that offset voltage overclocking, you need to set it manually for it to apply.