I've noticed that i needed to increase the cache voltage, or otherwise i would run into issues. Vcore is at 1.41 Volt, and cpu cache voltage is at 1.31. I can only get it to 4.2 Ghz, at a cpu cache ratio of 39(uncore), without getting too hot. I've hat a little troube overclocking my G3258 as well. G3258 is all you need for 90%+ of people using computers these days, even if they don't realise it. So unless you know all the tricks and fixes to get the most out of your PC you might actually need a bit more heavyweight CPU as a buffer. Though I'm not sure everyone is getting the most out of their computers these days, it's a lot harder to get your OS and other software to lay low and hog less resources then it use to be back in the pentium 4 days. Outgrowing the need for the best graphics has been a benefit to my gaming experience over all. I only see computers like that fully utilised for 'Enthusiast' gamers and specielty use (and even then media users will probably have a xeon or something).ĬPUs havn't come far in the last 10 years, and neither have the majority of games.īuilding budget PCs that can handle even the flashiest tittles on modest settings feels more satisfying then the over the top kind of PCs I use to build.

Wouldn't mind testing out some other debien OSs but while my emulator is working I'm not gonna tinker with it.Īll in all the G3258 comes highly recommended from me though, I actually have a beast PC with a I5-2500k running at 5ghz and these days it's just collecting dust. I'm running lubuntu 14.04, which has a lot of quirks and kinks I've had to work out but I much prefer it to Ubuntu's heavy weight feeling these days. I can't honestly see needing more than 3.8 except for only the most intensive games, I've run everything perfectly fine at 2x-3x except for mario galaxy but I think the bottleneck with that is the Linux AMD gpu drivers. Modified the case to fit a 120mm gently typhoon on the CPU cooler though, so that may explain the great temps. It runs super quiet and cool though even though I've packed it and other additional stuff into a tiny Antex ISK 150-300. I can't get mine to run stably over 3.8ghz on a Asrock Z97M/ITX.

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