PC based on Pentium G3258 noticeable upgrade from i3 550?

Joe-Gamer

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Hi, this is my second post so it could be in the wrong section!:)
This PC is not for me but I will be building it in the future for my friend. He has a Packard Bell imedia s... with 1tb HDD, i3 550, windows 7 home 64 bit and 7GB of Ram (Odd I know) and 250w psu. Not a great PC. It takes about 2-3 minutes to boot and is slow all round.
New PC:
Pentium G3258 hope to overclock on stock cooler to 4Ghz
120/128GB SSD (os drive)
SAME 1TB HDD as old pc
corsair cx 430w psu
Same DVD drive

Not sure on mobo, the pentium g3258 overclocks well with good performance increases so a decent motherboard. H81/B85? I have the asus versions of these boards can overclock with latest bios update. (Asus H81I-PLUS Motherboard)

Cooler master elite 130 mITX case
Corsair 8 GB RAM
This PC is on a very small budget hence the cheap CPU! £300 total MAX! :( Any cost cuts would be great help. Thanks!
Joe
 
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Yes. It has to be Z97 as Intel produces firmware upgrades for unlocked processors to prevent being overclocked on B85 / H87 / H97 / H81 boards.

Joe-Gamer

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Does it have to be a Z97 to overclock the CPU? Google asus enables overclocking on H81, it says that this motherboard ASUS H81M-K LGA 1150 can be used to overclock the pentium for a cheap price.
 

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Yes. It has to be Z97 as Intel produces firmware upgrades for unlocked processors to prevent being overclocked on B85 / H87 / H97 / H81 boards.
 
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Cukedaddy

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they don't knbow what they're talking about...you're right that the h81 will overclock with bios update
 

dottorrent

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Don't dig up old threads. And don't say that I know nothing. That was 3 weeks ago and I only knew about it a week ago.
 

Cukedaddy

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I said what I said because I had a hard time finding that info because of incorrect answers, so other people can see the correct information///sorry if your all butt hurt for being wrong