The Good Pentium? 🙅‍♂️ | G3258 Anniversary Edition

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Testing the Intel Pentium G3258 dual core CPU in popular and demanding games in 2023, using an RTX 3070 discrete GPU.
When the Pentium Anniversary Edition G3258 launched in 2014, it was with a great deal of hyperbole. The first overclockable Pentium in years (from the brand that locked them in the first place)! Unfortunately, no amount of overclocking could add missing instruction sets or hyperthreading, and so my usual batch of 2020s games don’t run too well… or sometimes, even at all. Is there any point to this CPU in an era where used i5s and i7s for socket 1150 cost less than a game does?
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00:00 Pentium G3258 vs. 2023
00:44 Background: History of the G3258
03:37 Test System: G3258 @ 4.7GHz, 16GB DDR3-2400, RTX 3070
04:03 Failed benchmarks
04:44 Gaming Benchmarks
04:48 Benchmarks: Valorant
06:00 Benchmarks: Fortnite
06:38 Benchmarks: Microsoft Flight Simulator
07:31 Benchmarks: Spider-Man Remastered
08:20 Benchmarks: Elden Ring
08:52 Benchmarks: Civilization VI
09:06 Synthetic Benchmarks: CPU-Z, Cinebench R23, Time Spy & Firestrike
09:21 Older benchmarks
13:40 Is the G3258 worth it?
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@beanbag8020 Год назад

"Red Dead Redemption 2 failed to redeem itself" is the funniest thing I have heard all year

@IcebergTech Год назад

It's barely March, but I'll take the compliment anyway 😁

@Fly_By_Gaming Год назад

True

@Swagarot Год назад

This channel is a hidden gem, hope you'll get big some day!

@ZERARCHIVE2023 Год назад

Persistance and not giving up, sharing amazing content like he does gives him traction, he need to keep going, he's growing slowly but surely

@yvonetubla7682 Год назад

and then he'll turn into a money grabbing vpn shill!

@Splarkszter Год назад

yup

@dashtesla Год назад

He even improved the dynamic range :)

@Dathremar Год назад

G4560 was a much bigger move for the Pentium brand, hyper-threading made a much bigger difference than unlocked multiplier imo.

@wireframedotsrgl4481 Год назад

I remember back in the day when the G3258 and the GTX 750 Ti seemed like the budget build combo of choice for a lot of people. Can't imagine it holding up all that well today.

@Fly_By_Gaming Год назад

750ti held up a lot better than the pentium overall

@MrLense Год назад

That's the trade of when you go budget. It just won't last as long

@EcchiRevenge Год назад

The point of pentium g3258 is that you can upgrade to a proper i5/i7 later.

@Sam-K Год назад

Couldn't agree more. I'd a Pentium G860 (2nd Gen. Sandy Bridge) along with an R7-260X (comparable to 750Ti, more or less). I bought that CPU thinking it'd serve me well for years to come... until I ran Mass Effect 3 (original) on it. There were tons of stutters and jitters and the system would struggle to maintain even 50FPS at times, probably due to Nvidia PhysX eating up CPU resources. Knew straight away what a massive mistake I'd made. Even the ancient Q6600 running bone stock would've fared better than that G860. Skipped the i5, jumped straight to i7-2600 and never looked back.

@ayushmandhar1418 Год назад

5 months ago I was using the g4560 + 1050ti 😂

@kevinhansford3929 Год назад

I had a g3258 cpu as a place holder in 2014 as I saved up for an i5 4690k. It performed well enough for the games I played at the time like kerbal space program and elite dangerous

@IcebergTech Год назад

Wow. I haven't played either game myself, but I can imagine they'd both be pretty CPU-intensive.

@kevinhansford3929 Год назад

Kerbal space program is but it's doggedly single threaded so an overclocked g3258 ran it really well

@sillysierralol Год назад

honestly your videos are so well made that i didn't even notice you weren't getting that many views, i love your videos !! you'll get there some day, you certainly have the skill for it !!!

@IcebergTech Год назад

Thanks 😊

@botbeamer Год назад

I used to have a G3258 and in games from before 2016 I had no issues, BF4, BF3, GTA V, Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4, Witcher 3 (original version) , etc

@GOPACKERSJT Год назад

I thought his GTA V results were strange, I wonder if the game has changed since 2014. I played that on a system with the same CPU @ 4.5Ghz and an r7 265. It did not do what he saw.

@botbeamer Год назад

@@GOPACKERSJT it didn't stutter as bad as he showed for me, I have exact same CPU. I played metro last light on that with no issues

@botbeamer Год назад

@@GOPACKERSJT it could also be the OS, if he's using W10 or W11 then that can be a problem

@GOPACKERSJT Год назад

I bet you're right, I can't remember if I was on Windows 7 or 8.1 back then.

@botbeamer Год назад

@@GOPACKERSJT I was definitely on W7 and I remember playing Metro Last Light with a GTX 950 and getting over 60 fps no stutters it used to stutter a bit in GTA 5 but not as much as in this video

@kenobi639 Год назад

Quickly becoming one of my favorite tech channels. Love the format, music and cheeky commentary. You will be huge, brother.

@KomradeMikhail Год назад

You missed the most important aspect: Windows XP I still use the G3258 to this day... not in my main build, but in my WinXP retro rig. It is the best chip possible for XP, by a very wide margin. Haswell (Broadwell) is the last platform that supports XP. There are no XP exclusives that can utilize more than 2 threads... and despite the 3.2 Ghz base clock, this beast easily overclocks up to a massive 4.5, sometimes even 4.6 or 4.7. The next closest performer to this in XP would be an i5 with two of the cores disabled in BIOS to save on TDP and voltage. It was technically a "Devil's Canyon" release alongside the refreshed i5-4690K and i7-4790K chips. With an improved TIM and voltage regulator under the IHS. Though you can still delid and liquid metal to eek out a couple more Mhz if you want.

@RuruFIN Год назад

Delidding didn't help for me, max OC was stll 4.7GHz, but did it anyway. These run so cool even with a copper-core stock cooler that almost anything can cool these.

@Vinterloft 11 месяцев назад

@@RuruFIN Yeah I run mine at 5.1Ghz with a tower cooler without any fans on it, and the only case fans are one 200mm intake and one slim 200mm exhaust (BitFenix Survivor) it would be inaudible if I got a passive PSU.

@pankoza 5 месяцев назад

that's kinda Like Windows 7 on -1st gen Ryzen- AMD Bristol Ridge or Intel Skylake-X

@Trick-Framed Год назад

It blew my mind when they released this without AVX AT ALL. It was a kick in the teeth fr.

@ExplosiveTacoLand Год назад

I definitely don’t have a budget rig (12700k/3060 Ti/DDR5), but your videos are always a delight to watch. I love that you how show off the utility (or lack thereof) of less shiny parts that can be grabbed for a bargain. Keep up the good work!

@gacekwilkooki Год назад

This Crisis situation makes me think: maybe present GPU driver 's overhead is responsible for a such poor performance?

@johnc7385 Год назад

Have just come across your channel in the last few days... Rapidly going through your library!

@kai84m Год назад

I can still remember getting my first AMD Dual Core and how proud I was. Today, you can't really use a CPU with less than 8 Threads - damn, I'm grown old. I really like your Videos. Really well-made, great voice-over, and I love that humor of yours. When are we getting Patreon? (Idiot me just saw it at the end of the Video :D)

@alexandroskotrotsos3720 Год назад

The excellent lightsaber lighting never get old ! Great vid 👍

@dapro_27 Год назад

I watched nearly all of your videos and I´ve come to the conclusion that you are one of my favourite content creators in the last months. Respect for the always stunning quality

@JadeIsler Год назад

Keep up the amazing content

@lowpcradzimeg Год назад

Actually a very funny video made in your professional editing style. Great job!

@JamesSmith-sw3nk Год назад

Great video. Keep in mind that when it was released in 2014, a pc with the G3258 and a gtx 750ti could be assembled for around $250 which was an incredible value for it's time and 720p gaming was very common then. You could get a 4.2ghz with no cpu throttling on the stock cooler. A whole lot of games like Far Cry 3 were played on those budget machines. I am surprised that Crysis doesn't play better, maybe an update has made it worse for dual core pc's, (Maybe your overclock is too high, I have a suspicion that if you lowered the o.c to 4.5ghz AND lowered the voltage that your audio problems might disappear.) Now days, the G3258 is good for a cheap Windows 7 or XP retro gaming pc. As shown, Vsync is often a friend.

@goncalomoura9816 Год назад

No it wasn't, back in the day you could build an Athlon X4 750K + R7 260X for way cheaper and get more than double the performance of that combo, but nobody really knew it back then, reviewers were using outdated games optimized for Nvidia in their benchmarks, and many broke college students only cared about CSGO and LoL which are DX9 games. On the other hand, the G3258 and 750 Ti still have value for collectors, so sometimes buying iconic terrible hardware is a good idea.

@mikymouse7525 Год назад

James Smith, Crysis runs very well with a Barton (2.O GHz single core). The game doesn't need a more powerful processor, the RTX 3070 does. All tests are wrong because of this.

@danr1795 Год назад

you deserve so many more subs man, always enjoy watching these and you have a interesting voice unlike a lot of these monotonous channels, thanks alot :)

@Kashi941 Год назад

I suggest testing the Pentium Gold G4560. I used it as a basis on an office build I made a few years ago and unlike its predecessors it did have HT. For 50-60€ it was a great option at the time as I think it was almost as fast as an i3.

@IcebergTech Год назад

I'll definitely keep it in mind, but these days an i3-6100 costs about the same 😕

@justintank902 8 месяцев назад

@@IcebergTech I'm still using a 2015 G3258 on my office computer with a 660 TI and it runs great with pre 2020 titles with the exception of far cry 4 that demands 4 cores. it will play far cry 5 and 6 is questionable but still playable on a h81m motherboard.

@Fly_By_Gaming Год назад

My inspirational speaker has uploaded again! And he learned the secret of making thumbnails. (I still need to learn that)

@afos88 Год назад

This was actually my first CPU in my very first proper PC (had only trash laptops until then) cant believe its almost 10 years already.

@fayis4everlove Год назад

bro same! haha.. im still using it right now while writing this comment haha

@lairlair2 Год назад

This channel is very interesting! I've been tempering with core 2 duos recently and they couldn't stream 1080p videos reliably even on a relatively barebone OS, RAM maxed out and an SSD. I'd be curious to see some multimedia tests, cause sometimes you just need a side PC for a home theatre for example.

@TechDweeb Год назад

I wonder where the sound goes, during its time away. Is there a magical sound purgatory somewhere in the pc where it hangs out with all the other forgotten background processes while it waits for its turn?

@markojovanovic9651 Год назад

I had this and r9 270x as one of my first pc builds... Was awesome had so much fun on it, I oc'd it to 4.3 or 4.4 ghz

@ineligible2267 Год назад

You're putting out banger after banger right now

@solemnsilence3650 Год назад

I had the Pentium g4560 in 2017. That bad boy actually had hyper threading and was basically an i3 6100 but for $60

@bulutcagdas1071 Год назад

Wow did not expect it not to run 2007 version of Crysis. I played that on a Q6600 recently and it runs absolutely fine.

@FatheredPuma81 Год назад

Yea Nvidia doesn't expect you to only have 2 threads these days. If you paired this CPU with a GTX 750 Ti it would run significantly better.

@levib9759 Год назад

Had this amazing cpu with a matching asrock board for my very first computer build. I clicked one button and it over locked to like 4.8 or something. Loved the chip!

@BE3R-LF94 Год назад

10:42 I am 100% certain this CPU could have handled Crysis...on Windows 7. Around that time that was the most popular OS and the much lower overhead it provided could have made the experience at least playable. That alone was the reason most people held on to it until 2020, some even holding on until this very year (I myself only moved on because the GPU in my 7 system died a few months ago). Pity right now 7 has become a liability (online at least), as even extended support has ended, but it was fun while it lasted. Also, given the results on display, I'm sure a lot of FX 6300 users feel smug right about now...last I checked, there weren't any games to not start on that chip... P.S. Nice jab at sponsors in the intro XD P.P.S. I know Windows 8 was also around at that time, but let's be honest, it flopped (8.1 was too little too late)

@IcebergTech Год назад

Yeah, that had occurred to me. Crysis is usually a nightmare for me on any system these days, it straight up refuses to start on my R7 5700X and I can't figure out why. PS. The jab was at RU-vid advice channels! Next week's intro jab is at RU-vidrs who use the word "guys" a lot. Maybe I shouldn't be burning bridges like this...

@vlad54rus-a Год назад

@@IcebergTech Take a look at c1-launcher, it incorporated all needed fixes to run original Crysis on modern systems.

@eclipsegst9419 Год назад

RIP Windows 7, the absolute peak of Windows operating systems that will never be topped by these "touch screen inspired" designs of today.

@Vfl666 Год назад

They released a patch on Steam that screw up the game it doesn't even start anymore.

@RuruFIN Год назад

I can confirm that. Actually G3258 paired with a GTX 670 OC was my first setup which ran Crysis at 1080p very high at smooth 60fps.

@computerrefurbishment9748 Год назад

Dug out my g3258 and oc to 4.0ghz on stock cooler. Stable so will run benchmarks soon. Added 16gb ddr3 1600mhz ram and ssd. Thanks for the inspiration!

@ZanderSwart Год назад

definately here because of the thumby....ive never heard of your channel in my life but gad damn i love me a G3258

@LuaCynthia Год назад

Would love some more content on (old) gaming laptops

@telsan4291 Год назад

I tune in just for the music with gaming narration 😄

@MetaDude Год назад

Idk if anyone said this but your thumbnails are S tier

@jimscarlett Год назад

I have a soft spot for the G3258 as it was my "return" to DIY gaming PCs after going the laptop route for years through and after college. I'm typing this comment on a bit of a descendant of that system, which is a 4770k I keep in my office and is still surprisingly competent today. I still have the old 3258 at 4.6 GHzin a B85 board and the R9 270x I originally paired it with, which serves as a media center PC and plays Star Trek Online in the guest room. Even when new it wasn't much of a beast at the time, but it ran slightly older games at the time really, really well. I got it in the MicroCenter bundle for $100 with a motherboard and RAM, and pieced together the rest of a used system I could afford on my recent-grad budget. I had a free 8800GT at first, and later upgraded to the 270x which was on sale for Black Friday in 2014. I remember being so impressed at how well it ran everything from the late 2000s-2012ish that were a struggle on my Gateway FX laptop from college. I definitely played some GTA V on it, and it did run Crysis back then, but it was on Windows 7. GTA V was not smooth, but it was playable, haha. I upgraded to a 4670k and crossfire 280Xs around that time, and kept the 3258 and 270x as a secondary system as it still exists today.

@Bormen414 Год назад

It was a great CPU for CSGO and probably other esport titles when it was released. Especially if you were afraid of the used market. The option for a later i5/i7 upgrade were also a nice to have. Couple of my friends were running a g3258 gtx 660/750ti combo. I went with a slightly more expensive entry i3-4170/gtx950 8GB ram and a later upgrade to i7-4790/RX580 16GB ram.

@Nachokinz Год назад

When I saw this release, I referred to it as a poor purchase then due to frame times and its lack of hyperthreading. Informed others to simply save their money and at least get last gen deals on higher core count options. There was much pushback by those who decided it was worth defending such a... product. However as always, time has shown which ones aged better than others. Thank you for showcasing the G3258.

@blakegriplingph 5 месяцев назад

I had that one alongside a GTX 750 nearly a decade ago. I was able to play GTA 5 but I had to cap it at 30 FPS due to the streaming issue as noted in the video.

@chenzen4915 Год назад

I had one of these in a sff HP, it was an ok performer for some games.

@tytyguy1able Год назад

The Pentium G3258 and a GTX 1050ti. Solid little PC for a time when PC gaming wasn't stupid expensive

@raven4k998 Год назад

how do newer Pentiums with unlocked multipliers do verses the g3258?🤔

@ducktape-3470 Год назад

I used the i5 4440 for about a decade. Will that get a review ? I've seen that a lot in random places and people using it

@sk0mi Год назад

Lower the resolution for single playe or even multi playerr? 1080p was high res back then imo. Try on some old 4:3 (5:4) monitors...Low res helps a lot LOL

@damasterpiece08 Год назад

my 2680v2 finally arrived but throttlestop doesn't work. all core boost is now 3.08ghz. i've looked up guides but they don't seem to work. can the config file be exported/imported ? cheers

@IcebergTech Год назад

Yes, I'm sorry I might have been wrong on the 2680 v2's all-core boosts. As I said in the video, mine only went to 2.8GHz without Throttlestop and 3.1GHz with it. However, a commenter pointed out that 3.1GHz is actually the normal all-core frequency (check out www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon%20E5-2680%20v2.html and click the down arrow next to "Maximum Turbo Frequency") and so the 2.8GHz I was experiencing was actually unusually low, maybe down to a TDP limit somewhere. Throttlestop merely helped me reach the proper boost speed, and didn't do anything special! As for 3.08GHz... well, I don't know why that would be the case, but 20MHz isn't going to produce a noticeable difference. Your setup sounds like it's working okay. The only way to get more performance out of it is via BCLK overclocking.

@damasterpiece08 Год назад

@@IcebergTech the cpu is working fine, i am curious about 1 other thing though. power settings -> processor minimum state (i have that at 1%), some people say it should be 100% to reduce frame dips, but that sounds counter-intuitive. what do you think ?

@IcebergTech Год назад

@@damasterpiece08 I'd probably leave it at 1% too, but then again I guess it depends on how much your power bills have gone up by!

@damasterpiece08 Год назад

@@IcebergTech it's just the minimum stare, i have not experienced any issues yet, the cpu boosts normally, but it's too old to go below 2.9 ghz apparently. power draw is about 216W (monitor, speakers and router included) with the cpu in full load and gpu at 0% load

@Tmanstomp100 Год назад

why does the benchmark overlay say i7 5775C at te top?

@vishalsinghsengar7951 11 месяцев назад

One thing you didn't mention, is your resolution. I play complete witcher 3 twice with this cpu, gtx 650 and 6gb ram. My res was 1440*900p. It use to give 45~ fps. You must be testing on 4k

@yourbluewaffle Год назад

Any chance of comparisons against 1st gen ryzen chips?

@IcebergTech Год назад

Probably in a couple of months. Can't afford any more CPUs right now!

@Maximum_Nova 6 месяцев назад

I still own one of these - first computer I ever built, I got a z97 extreme 6 and a g3258 to tide me over until the launch of Broadwell. It was terrible in 2015 too. Even basic computer usage in early windows 10 was excruciating on 2 threads. I was just consolidating a bunch of loose PC parts and slapped together the old build a few days ago, but it's got a 5775c in it, not the Pentium K. I know some amateur LN2 overclockers, I've always been tempted to bring the system over and see how much I can get the pentium to rip

@jblcharge3_basstester Год назад

Could u try out the xeon e3 1231 v3? I used it to upgrade my i5 4460 and its an really great chip! Only sad part is that it doesnt have an unlocked multiplier but for the rest its great! I get arround 3.6-3.7ghz all core clock in valorant and 3.8 all core in beamng!

@mifili64 Год назад

I ran Crysis back in 2013 with a sandy bridge pentium G860, a GTX 650Ti 1GB and I was happy with the performance. After upgrading to an i5 2500K, I run the game again and the performance improved considerably, with the same 650Ti. Later the G860 briefly served in an HTPC, but during the last 8 years, it has done an excellent job as an unboxing tool. My cat also used it as a toy, dropping it off the table and kicking it around. Still works btw;)

@Max15691 Год назад

In 2015 I had an Athlon II x2 250 at 3.6 GHz with a Gt 240, 8 gigs of RAM. GTA 5 and Crysis ran fairly ok around 30 fps avg with some stutters, but nothing as bad as this. It´s either new updates that broke those games with dual core cpus, or the newest Windows (I had windows 7 back then).

@Hjominbonrun Год назад

wonder if possible to play games using a radeon. I have been made to believe that they perform better when cpu bound.

@alyessamaddox7022 Год назад

That's more true with directx 12 games. Many of the titles here were directx 11

@siewkimng1085 Год назад

The special thing about this CPU is that it supports ECC ram. So you could repurpose it as a file server.

@mikhailmiller9048 Год назад

This is absolute gold!!! I bought this exact cpu back in the day, tried to overclock the snot out of it to squeeze out more performance, and eventually just bought a used i5 off ebay. I couldn't believe how much faster the i5 was. The pentium was a total waste of time and money.

@kop7125 Год назад

Late respond here, did you use a capture card that's usb to capture game footage and are there hidden cores in this cpu?

@IcebergTech Год назад

Yes, I use an EZCap 321 USB capture device. As for "hidden cores", erm... no? Not that I'm aware of?

@yousefz7788 Год назад

Whats the i7-5775c on the Witcher doing?

@Cirmaci Год назад

I still miss my G3220 :(

@rck-lp7389 Год назад

you dont need to save up long since its 1 pound processor :D

@mr.dingleberry4882 Год назад

Ive used that one in my main rig almost 10 years ago, and then gave it to my brother when I upgraded. He used it until february 2021 when he upgraded to 5600G. Now G3220 is at the heart of our home server, still going strong lol

@uconsaa Год назад

your videos are perfect (well thought out, edited, scripted etc.) idk maybe people wanna see more up to date hardware?

@IcebergTech Год назад

Thanks! I think the new hardware niche is harder to crack, so I’m sticking with old stuff until the channel grows a bit.

@eliasroflchopper3006 Год назад

@@IcebergTechood choice. At the moment, all the attention is on LTT and Gamers Nexus when new hardware realeses. But I enjoy your videos about the old stuff a lot!

@Voidkitty_ Год назад

@@IcebergTech let gn and ltt do the new stuff, reviews for old tech is rare, your channel is a gem for that

@NiCO-jo2vh Год назад

I remember the G4560. That was the budget king back then. Loved that chip

@chrisoverton2759 Год назад

The witch with the 10% off was funny lol

@rvalent9366 Год назад

I now wonder how an i7 reduced to 2c2t would perform compared to this Is it limited by the threads or the instructions?

@stevesmith1383 Год назад

for some of these games, def the lack of threads. 2 core 4 thread over 2 core 2 thread can be a big jump

@moonknightish Год назад

What song do you use in background?

@IcebergTech Год назад

With the exception of the intro, they're all songs by Backing Track @ backingtrack.gg I can't remember all the track names, I believe Neon Nights and The Doc Will See You Now are some of them, but I also use Starstream Returns and a few other tracks that slip my mind right now. It's good stuff, one of the people behind it is YTer EposVox.

@moonknightish Год назад

@@IcebergTech Thank you very much for your answer. :D I did try to search by clicking the link in the description of the video, but there are tons of them :)

@GriggsHw Год назад

Ooof, this is rough, even back then a lot of games were already unplayble with this CPU. GTA5, Insurgency sandstorm, Dragon age inquisition to name a few. The rest like Rise of tomb raider, original Witcher 3 while playable stutter is a common occurrence. I even remembered I had to reinstall windows 8.1 cuz windows 10 would disable OC with H81 motherboard. This little thing did hold on till I got a Ryzen 2600, now replaced by a 5700x.

@mannduro Год назад

It's even hard to sell them as office solutions. These days even office programs make use of more than two cores

@dylon4906 Год назад

I commented this on the community post but I feel obligated to do it again here. this was the cpu in my first gaming pc, which I built for 350 dollars in 2017 when I was a broke middle school kid. paired it with an msi h81m p33 (which weirdly had overclocking), 8gb of ddr3 and a gtx 1050 2gb. back then I mostly played source engine games, minecraft, gta 4, etc. gta 4 mostly because I couldn't play gta 5 because even back then it was a stuttery unplayable mess on this cpu. same story with fortnite, which is why I never got into fortnite (this cpu did me a service, lets be real). but for those older games, it ran great. needless to say though, it was one of the first things I upgraded in that pc (went to an i7 4770k). interesting though that it outlived the 4770k, as I sold the 4770k to build a ryzen system 2 years ago and just gave the g3258, my shitty h81 mobo and the 16gb ddr3 i had at that point to my dad to use as a music production system since they really werent worth selling anyway. good thing he only uses windows 7 and mostly windows 7 era software because the g3258 is essentially just a core 2 duo on steroids. it's absolutely crazy now that you can get an *18 core* xeon e5 2699 v3 for just 10 dollars more than I originally bought that pentium for in 2017. speaking of the xeon, please please PLEASE do a video on the e5 2699 v3, it's literally a haswell ddr4 18 core for just 60 dollars on ebay

@IcebergTech Год назад

I’m not saying a definite “yes” to the 2699 v3 yet (I don’t like getting people’s hopes up) but it’s on my shortlist!

@certs743 7 месяцев назад

Fun video although you can tell it must have been frustrating to make it. The story of the Core series of CPUs is kind of interesting. The story goes according to publications at the time that it was a further development of the much older Pentium 3 mobile platform that someone in their facilities in Israel was messing about with. Turned out to be what saved the company from a developmental dead end. When I worked in a PC shop around 2005 we used to jokingly refer to P4 systems as space heaters. One could have argued at the time marketing and brand recognition was the only thing that saved Intel from being buried by AMD and Apple.

@donman9154 Год назад

Haswell's 1150 series chips - my first favourite PC build!!

@kenanarmyansyah9520 Год назад

i know this won't help you much. but, i'll watch whatever video related to pc hardware from you. big fan of your channel!

@IcebergTech Год назад

Thanks 🥰

@RuruFIN Год назад

I had one back in the day, clocked at 4.7GHz and had to upgrade since some games started to need four threads.

@ArielJerseyJr Год назад

I remember this CPU being kinda praised for its performance. But I decided to add a little bit more for an i3 instead.

@RankoNightcore Год назад

this is a big problem for me like most likely depends what u wanna games for it.. it needs like AVX Supported and usually some other games like it crash or it wont started but i use this before but i upgraded to gold g5400 other games still can run but the others wont run

@499surewin2 Год назад

I have this chip way back 2015 oced at 4.6ghz with hyper 212 evo and paired it with gtx 750 ti.I finished Gta V in just 1 week with this setup. I also remember witcher 3 running on the program tho i had to use a program that forces the computer to think that i had quadcore setup. I think doing the benchmark in 1080p and pairing it with a much lower card like gtx 960 or 1050ti will be more cool for this video.

@nashcomp Год назад

This cpu still running in my daughter pc, with 8gb rams dual channel still playable with light emulator, minecraft and obviously 2013 below games, never let this cpu to obslete because haswell pentium give alot through my gaming years back then.

@bardofhighrenown Год назад

I've never seen games hang that long without crashing or having the OS lock up completely and needing to manually power off the computer. So that's something.

@FeTiProductions Год назад

Back in the day, I was forever scarred by dual cores with Call of Duty: Black Ops. I enjoyed MW1 and MW2 well on my Pentium E2180 and 8600GT, but Black Ops just came outta nowhere the following year after MW2 and humbled my build. I went on to get a Core i3, wanted the i5 but couldn't get up to the price level at the time, but I was adamant that 4 threads were necessary. Then came this lovely Pentium G3258 that proved me absolutely right, shutting down all arguments. If I disable HT for example, all those issues you see with GTA5 manifests itself on my i3 3240, with HT on, completely gone, not even a hint of it. No matter how much you overclock a CPU, you just can't get over the 99% pegged utilization that's causing the issue.

@indenkellerag Год назад

Can you try xeon e5 1650 v1 with rtx 3070 compared to r5 5600x, you can buy it with hp z420

@DarkLegend124 Год назад

locking the framerate might have fixed or at least mitigated the freezes and audio & video not synchronizing

@jedi9577 Год назад

I'm pretty sure something is wrong with those Crysis numbers. The game ran very well on the Core 2 Duo CPUs back in the day which are also 2c/2t. I ordered one of these CPUs to do some testing with.

@MeMe-us5ns Год назад

being honest, yes, the question mark (?) truly got me to click the video lol

@unclexbox85 Год назад

Will you make a video about intel arc a770 or a750 they both seems like a very good pick for budget gaming, although the drivers are a mess sometimes

@wartlme Год назад

Way back in the day, the first computer I built had a Celeron in it. I forget what the model was, but it clocked at 1600. I overclocked it to 2400 GHz. It was banging. I loved that cheap computer. Sold it to my friend and he gamed on it until he smashed it after losing money while online gambling. I was sad.

@bojinglebells Год назад

well, supposedly Haswell systems can be fairly compatible with Windows XP, and given how XP era software won't require much, if any, multithreading, this CPU just might be perfect for a boutique "ultimate" retro XP rig.

@RuruFIN Год назад

Also I think that drivers for a modern card like 3070 has probably way too much overhead for a dual-core chip. Something older may work better :)

@qwertykeyboard5901 Год назад

I think there's some weird esoteric software bug going on here. Mainly due to the ridiculous stutters.

@catonturtle3202 Год назад

11:44 insane noscope

@bazzgaming27 Год назад

i miss my GOATED Pentium G4560. When that chip came out in 2017 it was huge, being a 2C/4T Pentium with hyperthreading and it was between £55 - £60 in the UK. any chance of a revisit on this chip to see how it stacks up in 2023.

@ecchichanf Год назад

>7:14 >the game had to turn NYC into Bubsy 3D Great video as always. i7-5775C is the better choice for this sockel :3 (Afterburner spoiler)

@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire Год назад

Yeah, this sound desync is why we don't record in variable framerate; I used to use the G3258 to make videos. I mean, you totally can record VFR, you just have to reencode with a constant framerate later to avoid desync issues.

@RobertLeather Год назад

Actually, the switch the Pentium was due, in no small part, from the fact the Intel couldn't trademark numbers. So they couldn't stop AMD making their AM486 or Cyrix from their Cx486 processors; both of which dropped effortlessly into Intel spec 486 motherboards. So they created the Pentium brand.

@IcebergTech Год назад

Yes, I put that in a text blurb on screen. I was just "editorialising", or making a more interesting story out of a boring one 😉

@sarius_hi6072 3 месяца назад

I have a feeling you've done something wrong because I have had this cpu for quite some time (overclocked to 4.3) and I played all the older games you tested without any stutter issues. I had it paired with a GTX 750 TI

@Middcore Год назад

I remember in the Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge days the question was frequently asked "Why isn't there an overclockable i3?" The answer, of course, was that it would cannibalize sales of i5's and i7's. Fast forward a couple of years and I've always thought of the G3258 as Intel finally sort of going "Here it is, this is what you asked for!" And I remember the hype level for it at the time being quite high. But they were still scared of making it too good and by then dual cores were teetering on the precipice of complete irrelevance. Nevertheless, I don't know if I could say it was a bad buy. It was probably better than any other CPU you could get for $75 at the time (and I think you could get them for $50 at Micro Center if you bought one with a motherboard), and it would have played most of the popular esports type stuff of the era, I don't think anybody sensible expected it to be a AAA title chip. Of course it's basically unusable now but even the Haswell i7's are falling off the cliff by this point.

@Vinterloft 11 месяцев назад

The best use case for this CPU (outside of a best-case Windows XP retro system) is as a legacy Minecraft or Space Engineers server. Those two games only care about 1 and a half thread and some of these overclock over 5Ghz (mine sits at 5.1)

@hananas2 Год назад

I'd be interested to see how much better the i3 6100 does nowadays, that was my first real own CPU and back in 2016 it felt like a total beast! Now it runs my mom's e-mail and internet pc, but quickly and smoothly.

@alexsp941 Год назад

Watching this on G3258 :)

@MichaeltheORIGINAL1 Год назад

It's even a lot worse than I expected. I'm genuinely impressed with how bad this is. :D

@AshTechCorner Год назад

I have binned a bunch of these CPUs , most cap at 4.4-4.6ghz really hard to find ones that do 4.8-5ghz. my best sample does 4.9ghz at 1.375v. reviewers mostly got cherry picked samples to sell the product in a misleading way showing them easily doing 4.7ghz+ GTA V ran fine back in the day but due to a fairly recent update after its launch to address multi core threading issues it is now unplayable on the G3258. Before the update it could do 60fps locked fairly well with minimal stutter. Most games also hidden lockouts and will just not run on a dual core at all Far Cry 4 being one of them I think

@ivangerginov5648 Год назад

Back in the day I was contemplating between this cpu and i3 4170 So glad I got the i3. It's still kinda usable today, more or less

@Berkaykn 11 месяцев назад

Haswell still got some steam these days, still using a 4770

@ivangerginov5648 11 месяцев назад

@@Berkaykn yup Actually since I wrote that comment I switched to a xeon e3-1241 v3, which is basically 4770 without igpu. There's a noticeable difference, but the little i3 was doing an awesome job still

@Berkaykn 11 месяцев назад

@@ivangerginov5648 Cool, I switched from a 4440 and difference is noticeable too, now I can actually do PS3 emulation and browser staying open in background doesn't cost performance anymore. also 3D rendering performance is much better