Pentium G3258 Overclocked Suitability

[elemein]

(07-18-2014, 05:25 AM)linker357 Wrote: Oh okay I get it, will it be worth it to get one over the 3570k I have right now and OC it to 4.5GHz? Probably not

Considering you'd need to get a new motherboard and that you could overclocking your 3570k and that you probably already run 100% on most games... No.

[AnyOldName3]

Considering it'll overclock higher than his 3570K, and is 30% faster clock-for-clock in Dolphin, combined with the fact that a tonne of games can't run at full speed on a 3570K, it would be. He'd maybe notice other, highly threaded applications getting slower, though.

[admin89]

If you planned to build a new PC , you should get the unlocked Pentium since Pentium G3258G @ 4.5GHz outperforms i7 4770k @ 4.3GHz and i3 4130 @ 3.4GHz is on par with i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz
The Pentium is a dual core CPU without Hyperthreading . You choose this CPU as an upgrade over your Quad Core i5 3570k ? Think again
You will gain much more performance in Dolphin but you will lose performance in every application that use multi-threads

[elemein]

(07-18-2014, 08:16 AM)admin89 Wrote: If you planned to build a new PC , you should get the unlocked Pentium since Pentium G3258G @ 4.5GHz outperforms i7 4770k @ 4.3GHz and i3 4130 @ 3.4GHz is on par with i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz
The Pentium is a dual core CPU without Hyperthreading . You choose this CPU as an upgrade over your Quad Core i5 3570k ? Think again
You will gain much more performance in Dolphin but you will lose performance in every application that use multi-threads

Thats exactly my mindset.

[linker357]

Yes that's what I was thinking too, anyway right now I can play all my Dolphin games at 100% with this cpu except the last story (damn you last story) so I'm pretty happy and I don't think I need an upgrade as of now

[TopicClocker]

(07-11-2014, 05:35 AM)gabriel21st Wrote:

(07-10-2014, 09:03 PM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: which is achievable with the stock cooler.

Seriously though, we should stop saying this. It's not a smart idea. Get an aftermarket cooler for 30 bucks.

It's only not a smart idea if you're attempting to push over 1.260-1.280v+, or you simply want temps below 60c on load and a quieter CPU fan, I can do 4.4GHz at 1.246v and keep my gaming temps under 80c.

In my Performance Thread i run PCSX2 and Dolphin.

Dolphin Benchmark
Pentium G3258 4.4GHz
Score (Total time): 7 minutes, 1 second

http://cdn.overclock.net/f/fd/fd4f7fe1_DolphinCPUBenchmark4.4GHzrun2nvidia320.49rollback.PNG

I've ran Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker, and Super Mario Galaxy 2, here's my thread on the Dolphin emu forums and my OCN thread for other emulators, they're at the bottom of the first post on OCN.
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-intel-pentium-g3258-emulator-performance
http://www.overclock.net/t/1500524/intel-pentium-g3258-performance-and-owners-thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDboJl3XSqY

I think It should perform as well as an i5 or an i7 at similar clocks, providing you don't need the threads and the AVX instruction set, I think PCSX2 may benefit from the threads in Software mode but I'm not entirely sure.