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Does it take an aftermarket cooler to overclock a Pentium G3258?

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June 22, 2014 7:31:36 AM

So Intel's new Pentium G3258 is going to sell soon and I was wondering if you need a really badass aftermarket cooler in order to overclock a G3258. Cause the Pentium is only a 54W chip so I think the stock cooler should be fine to 4.2GHz or so without crossing 90C?

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June 22, 2014 7:43:34 AM

It's impossible to tell until they release the CPU and stock cooler. My guess is that you will need a better than stock cooler simply because they will save a little money by minimizing the heatsink design. Any overclocking typically requires a better than stock cooler and the more so the better. Of course it will probably run but the question is for how long. Go cheap on the cooler and you will shorten the lifespan of the system.
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June 22, 2014 7:51:34 AM

thx1138v2 said:
It's impossible to tell until they release the CPU and stock cooler. My guess is that you will need a better than stock cooler simply because they will save a little money by minimizing the heatsink design. Any overclocking typically requires a better than stock cooler and the more so the better. Of course it will probably run but the question is for how long. Go cheap on the cooler and you will shorten the lifespan of the system.


Well...nevermind. I saw Digital Storm's review of the G3258 and they overclocked it to 4.6GHz while staying on 85C although they didn't say the ambient temps. I think a 4.4GHz overclock would be fine at least.
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June 22, 2014 6:02:59 PM

That's a good review but I see they didn't test it with games. I also didn't see a maximum temperature spec for the G3258.

The one thing I noticed that will be limiting is there's only 2 cores and no hyperthreading so only 2 threads. I imagine it will suffer from that in the gaming tests.

But for a budget machine it looks good as long as you don't intend any heavy gaming.
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June 22, 2014 7:55:02 PM

thx1138v2 said:
That's a good review but I see they didn't test it with games. I also didn't see a maximum temperature spec for the G3258.

The one thing I noticed that will be limiting is there's only 2 cores and no hyperthreading so only 2 threads. I imagine it will suffer from that in the gaming tests.

But for a budget machine it looks good as long as you don't intend any heavy gaming.


Well the Digital Storm review was only for me to see the temps, I say toms'hardware's review where they did extensive tests and the Pentium is the same or faster than an i3 then overclocked. So it's good enough for gaming.

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