[DEAD]Newegg: Intel G3258 + Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H LGA 1150 HDMI Mobo $83AR

[Ricochet]

Thanks for your input, sm625. It's good to hear testimony from actual user experience instead of just looking at charts/articles.

 

[you2]

The G1 and G3 series are really bargin burners. When I bult my parents computer; I thought to myself $100+ for an I3 or $35 for G pentinum. Was a no brainer. I know you are spucing these up overclocking a bit but the point remains the same. The only reason I would consider an I5+ is for heavy gaming or compute bound tasks as long as the G has the necessary features you require some of which include (appropriate hd engine for your monitor, virtualization, hardware decoding, ....). I forget exactlywhere they draw the line between pentinum and celeron but i know some of the lower end processors lack certain hardware features a few select people require.

 

[janeuner]

Having a lot of fun with this B85 combo. Screenshot from this morning, still using the stock heatsink...

I am working on a min-voltage 3.8Ghz preset before moving to higher clock speeds. Right now I am stress testing at 1.135V - dropping to 1.120V results in BSOD just as the boot cycle completes. I think I settle at 1.140V for the preset.

Clearly, I didn't win the silicon lottery. The motherboard isn't very easy to work with, but for the pocket change I shouldn't complain.

Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the value I got out of this deal.

 

[Denithor]

Mine is sitting on my office desk, bare, running Memtest386+ today while I'm at work. Making sure an old pair of 2GB DDR3-1600 sticks work properly before going through all the work of setting up a whole system. Haven't even touch overclocking yet, planning to mess with that this weekend.