Pentium Unlocked! Anniversary Edition

[Sempron Guy]

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Nice ta ni ug nakapalit ka sa una ug B85 board with outdated bios. Di lang i update ang bios para ka OC japon. Pero modetect baka sya pud no ug dili i update ang bios??... Basin dili kay wala ang cpu microcode?

most likely ana mahitabo, can't for the review ani, surely a decent z87 board should do the trick

[simoko]

Nice ta ni ug nakapalit ka sa una ug B85 board with outdated bios. Di lang i update ang bios para ka OC japon. Pero modetect baka sya pud no ug dili i update ang bios??... Basin dili kay wala ang cpu microcode?

dili ma detect on my Asus B85 Vanguard...no post...need BIOS update...ok ra on my Z87-D3HP w/ beta bios...am using an ES chip...

[Sempron Guy]

^wow that fast? hehe hows the oc?

[dhekoy33]

nana ni nga proc sa cebu mga bro ?

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nana ni nga proc sa cebu mga bro ?

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nana na diri sa cebu baligya na proc mga bro?

[Tech Guru]

Earlier this year, Intel announced that it would launch a 20th Anniversary Pentium to coincide with the birthday of one of its most iconic architectures. The Pentium G3258 is a conventional dual-core (no Hyper-Threading) with a 3.2GHz base clock, no Turbo Mode, and a 3MB L3 cache. Unlike the rest of Intel’s product line, however, this core will be unlocked — though you’ll need to plug it into a Z87 or Z97 motherboard to take advantage of that fact.

With a base clock of 3.2GHz, the G3258 should slip in just above the Pentium G3420, which matches the chip in all particulars but isn’t unlocked. That core retails for $75, so an $80 list price on the Anniversary Pentium makes sense. The more interesting question, I think, is whether enthusiasts will cotton to the new core as a low-end alternative for overclocking. It’s been years since Intel allowed for overclocking on its lower-end processors, but once upon a time that feature drove the segment.

As some of you may know, back in 1998 there was a very famous (or is that infamous?) CPU called the Celeron 300A. As the name suggests, the chip (pictured top) was clocked at 300MHz by default — but by simply increasing the front-side bus (FSB) from 66MHz to 100MHz, a clock speed of 450MHz was easily obtainable. At 450MHz, the Celeron 300A became one of the fastest CPUs on the market. My editor, Sebastian, tells me that he once had a dual-Celeron PC, with both chips clocked at 550MHz. At the time, it was probably one of the fastest air-cooled desktop PCs in the world.
If Intel bins the new chips well, it could spark a mini-revival in enthusiast overclocking, particularly if these cores use the newer thermal interface material that the Devil’s Canyon Haswell parts utilize. Intel’s top-end chips are going to hit 4.4GHz Turbo Mode (reportedly), which means an enthusiast dual-core at 4.2GHz would be clocking in at 30% over stock. That was a decent OC in the old days, and it’d be an excellent achievement from a $75 chip today.

With the addition of Quick Sync support, a fast Intel dual-core would be a great option for a modest gaming rig or general system. While no dual-core will match a quad-core CPU for multithreaded applications, a dual-core G3258 clocked at 4-4.2GHz likely would match well against the stock Core i3-4330, which runs at 3.5GHz with Hyper-Threading enabled. Hyper-Threading typically improves performance by 15-20%; our hypothetical Pentium would be running 14-20% faster clock for clock. Result? $140 worth of performance in a $75-$80 chip. Those are the kind of ratios that made the Celeron 300A legendary — hopefully we’ll get an equivalent performer for the 21st century. 20th anniversary Pentium specs leak – will this be the modern era’s Celeron 300A? | ExtremeTech

[MaeEnterprise]

up ta ani.. nice. ............................

[johnlloyd23]

unsay expected month ni mu release samga stores dire sa atua mga bros?

[Tech Guru]

Finally, from Computex 2014. Intel's Pentium Anniversary Edition CPU is unimaginatively named the Pentium G3258, but despite lacking K nomenclature, it's a fully unlocked part. It's clocked at 3.2 GHz on two cores, comes with 3 MB of cache, and supports DDR3-1333 memory. Also packing HD Graphics clocked at 1100 MHz, and a TDP of 53W, it could be the perfect part for enthusiasts looking to build a low cost yet powerful HTPC.

The Pentium G3258 will also begin shipping sometime this month, and will cost around $72.

[Remington]

Grabe bros! -- @Scan has succeeded in overclocking Intel's new Pentium G3258 from 3.2GHz to 4.5GHz
Scan overclocks Pentium G3258 to 4.5GHz | bit-tech.net

[harhar]

Grabe bros! -- @Scan has succeeded in overclocking Intel's new Pentium G3258 from 3.2GHz to 4.5GHz
Scan overclocks Pentium G3258 to 4.5GHz | bit-tech.net