I have one of these and think its amazing for the money. Currently got it at 4.5ghz watercooled. Had it at 4.3 with stock cooler. Stock voltages. I hear you can get them to 4.8 if you get a good chip!
Credit to simba2585 as i took the reviews below from his post 1yr ago.
Gta plays just fine for me with this. Get average of 40fps on high settings at 1080p. Not even overclocked. Very recommended
ollie87
23 Oct 154#7
That's the opposite of my experience. GTA V was stuttering badly and the load on my GPU was tiny compared to the CPU. You'd be driving along and the scenery would just stop loading and you'd be driving along on a invisible road and then crash into an invisible object - and it's a well documented issue with playing GTA V on a dual core setup.
My GPU is only a R9 280 and it was definitely creating a bottleneck on such a 'low-end' card. Witcher 3 was pretty much unplayable too.
Also, by the time you've bought a really good watercooler to get this up to 4.8Ghz (which I did - H100i) you could've probably bought an i5.
Ended up buying a second hand 4670K from eBay and now things are great.
It's still a hot deal, however you need to manage your expectations of this budget chip.
RFC1795 to pinnocchio
23 Oct 153#40
Actually, I'm enjoying the comments here. Some good insight for me as I'm so out of touch with CPU specs these days ... I'm finding the comments helpful and not really seeing them as 'mine is better than yours' ... some good input from both sides from what I see.
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malachi
23 Oct 152#1
You forgot to add £3.58 for the cheapest delivery charge.
popoyaya
23 Oct 151#2
A Passmark CPU benchmark of 3998. Pretty decent for £40
Just bought a second hand CPU with a passmark of 7992 for £45. :wink:
I'd say that although this is a good price for the CPU it isn't a model I'd recommend to anyone building from scratch.
Noclouds
23 Oct 151#3
Great general use chip, especially when overclocked, and depending on your motherboard choice you can put a small overclock on it using even the supplied cooler. At first it was a popular choice with budget-build gamers but then as reviewers, forum users, Tom's quarterly build challenges, gamers on Youtubers etc, started to report, for smooth game play with some games, though, if your main use for the computer is to be gaming, ideally shell out a bit more for an i3 with hyperthreading, which on top of having two physical cores has four threads. Definitely a hot at the price, though!
malachi to Noclouds
23 Oct 15#4
Yep, games like GTA 5 and Far Cry 3 don't play well with this CPU even then overclocked.
xela333
23 Oct 154#5
Gta plays just fine for me with this. Get average of 40fps on high settings at 1080p. Not even overclocked. Very recommended
Walshinho
23 Oct 151#6
I think it's going to get hot in here. Great find and by far the best chip available for this price (from what I have seen, about to buy and find out for myself)
ollie87
23 Oct 154#7
That's the opposite of my experience. GTA V was stuttering badly and the load on my GPU was tiny compared to the CPU. You'd be driving along and the scenery would just stop loading and you'd be driving along on a invisible road and then crash into an invisible object - and it's a well documented issue with playing GTA V on a dual core setup.
My GPU is only a R9 280 and it was definitely creating a bottleneck on such a 'low-end' card. Witcher 3 was pretty much unplayable too.
Also, by the time you've bought a really good watercooler to get this up to 4.8Ghz (which I did - H100i) you could've probably bought an i5.
Ended up buying a second hand 4670K from eBay and now things are great.
It's still a hot deal, however you need to manage your expectations of this budget chip.
keepitonthelow
23 Oct 15#8
There is a well known problem with amd cards and dual core cpus eurogamer went into depth about it do not combine this with a amd card was the outcome.
JoeyJoeC
23 Oct 15#9
Sounds like you may have another problem? Whats the memory?
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Credit to simba2585 as i took the reviews below from his post 1yr ago.
reviews:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/pentium_20th_anniversary_series_g3258_processor_review,1.html
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/70977-intel-pentium-anniversary-edition-g3258/
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,review-32974.ht
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Gta plays just fine for me with this. Get average of 40fps on high settings at 1080p. Not even overclocked. Very recommended
My GPU is only a R9 280 and it was definitely creating a bottleneck on such a 'low-end' card. Witcher 3 was pretty much unplayable too.
Also, by the time you've bought a really good watercooler to get this up to 4.8Ghz (which I did - H100i) you could've probably bought an i5.
Ended up buying a second hand 4670K from eBay and now things are great.
It's still a hot deal, however you need to manage your expectations of this budget chip.
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https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+G3258+%40+3.20GHz
I'd say that although this is a good price for the CPU it isn't a model I'd recommend to anyone building from scratch.
Gta plays just fine for me with this. Get average of 40fps on high settings at 1080p. Not even overclocked. Very recommended
My GPU is only a R9 280 and it was definitely creating a bottleneck on such a 'low-end' card. Witcher 3 was pretty much unplayable too.
Also, by the time you've bought a really good watercooler to get this up to 4.8Ghz (which I did - H100i) you could've probably bought an i5.
Ended up buying a second hand 4670K from eBay and now things are great.
It's still a hot deal, however you need to manage your expectations of this budget chip.