Dolphin Benchmark - G3258

07-06-2014, 12:27 AM #1

I don't know where to post this since the benchmark thread is locked, but I figured some of you might want to know how the new unlocked pentium performs in Dolphin, so here it is:

CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz
OS: Win 7 x64
Time: 6 minutes 49 seconds
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/AI9fEMS.jpg

07-06-2014, 04:21 AM #2

Wow it seems like that CPU is perfect for a dedicated Dolphin rig.
Guess i'll buy one too Smile

artantaaa · 07-06-2014, 05:20 AM #3

Thanks for posting this. I'm planning on getting one of these too. What are your temps like? Are you using the stock cooler?

tecfreak · (This post was last modified: 07-06-2014, 06:59 AM by tecfreak.)

...and how is the power consumption of your rig (avg. @load and @idle) compared to stock clocks?
Which mainboard are you using?

The dolphin-compute-power of a G3258 clocked @4GHz would be equal to a 4770K @3.9GHz according to the results of the official benchmark and that one provided by reinou. That's pretty impressive for such a cheap cpu.

07-06-2014, 08:16 PM #5

(07-06-2014, 05:20 AM)artantaaa Wrote: Thanks for posting this. I'm planning on getting one of these too. What are your temps like? Are you using the stock cooler?

65°C after 12 hours of prime95, but I plan to either push it higher or bring down the voltages a bit. I'm using a Hyper 212+. I heard you can overclock it to ~4.5GHz even on the stock cooler but the temps would get quite high (80°C+).

(07-06-2014, 06:08 AM)tecfreak Wrote: ...and how is the power consumption of your rig (avg. @load and @idle) compared to stock clocks?
Which mainboard are you using?

The dolphin-compute-power of a G3258 clocked @4GHz would be equal to a 4770K @3.9GHz according to the results of the official benchmark and that one provided by reinou. That's pretty impressive for such a cheap cpu.

Sorry, don't have anything to measure the power consumption right now. I'm using a MSI Z97 Gaming 5 board, mostly because I want to put a Broadwell in there next year. To be honest, I believe you could easily overclock this chip past 4GHz on any board that supports overclocking. I heard ASUS has enabled overclocking on all of their H and B series boards and MSI seems to have done the same for some of their boards.