Hardware Scan overclocks Pentium G3258 to 4.5GHz

not impossible
just hard
cause linus overclocks all his gpu and make his camera man play bf3 until he gets consistent results

 

In a multiplayer, in other words online game, where the players are always different? It's nigh on impossible.

 

Doesn't anyone at Scan know how to save Excel charts in PNG format? That image is awful!

 

I can't speak proper England like I used to could...

I bet Ant hates me at times.

 

They don't need multiplayer to produce more CPU-limited results, just pick a different game!

 

http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html


loads of cpu scaling ......

single player BF4 is gpu limited - go record a random game on a 64 player mp to see a real difference.

 

What you just linked does show some differences though between 2 threads and 4 threads. Bf series are bad test games in general. Crysis 3 which can be tested in single player correctly is a better test due to a much more scalable engine that does not rely on a tonne of other players to theory test.

 

I kinda want one just because it seems like a cool thing to have. A bit of a collectible.

 

Waste of time benchmark. Scan are aware of this as well. It's just a way to take advantage of less knowledgeable customers to get the chips out the door.(oh look this cheap cpu is as good as the top end ones)

One way around inconsistent multi player benchmarks is to collect lots and lots of data for each chip. A trend will emerge eventually.

 

My interest went out the window once I knew it wasn't a quad core. Tis a nice cheap chip though.

 

If Intel released a quad core for £53 that can hit the speeds scan has hit it would kill the market for themselves and anyone else as nobody would buy the i5 series or the fx series for 2-4 times the price. Intel would have to want to destroy AMD for a chip like that to ever see a launch.

And it would like be MAD as they would both suffer the consequences of such a thing.

 

Will be getting a budget 1150 set up for one of these bad boy dualies.

Reckon 5ghz has to be possible?

 

On air or all in one water coolers be chip dependent. On water I'd imagine it will be pretty simple stuff.