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Yeah, I'm starting another G3258 thread. Am I the only one with a few of these rigs floating around?
They were kind of a flash-in-the-pan sort of fad, a newbie overclocker's delight.
I liked them, for their strong single-core performance, for web browsing (before Firefox got multi-threaded heavily), and that overclocking them, didn't disable their video output features.
Sadly, they are (officially) limited to DDR3-1333 speeds, and 1080P display outputs, which limits them quite a bit, IMHO. (But they do support VGA-out, which is not officially supported on Skylake and up.)
I'm thinking of deploying a pair for browser / video boxes, with some GT 730 2GB GDDR5 cards.
Comments? I should probably be deploying G4560 boxes instead. (I have several in the "warehouse".) In that case, I woudn't even need the GT 730 cards, for the most part, unless they want to lightly game on the systems too.
In this day and age, when even an entry-level i3 CPU from Intel, is a quad-core, I know it makes little sense to use a dual-core, even overclocked, without DDR4 and a powerful iGPU. But I had them around, and I'm not charging much for them.
(Offered to build some 2200G rigs, for $400 ea., but got comments like "That's TOO MUCH money." Well, compared to your current FM1 PC, that cost $0, yeah. But you complained that you couldn't watch videos online with it.)
The other alternative for my purposes, is an ebay special on a used/refurb HP slimline, with a Celeron G3930 (Kaby Lake, dual-core), 4GB and 500GB, for $125 or so complete with Windows. How can you go wrong with a rig that cheap, that's only one year old technologically?
They were kind of a flash-in-the-pan sort of fad, a newbie overclocker's delight.
I liked them, for their strong single-core performance, for web browsing (before Firefox got multi-threaded heavily), and that overclocking them, didn't disable their video output features.
Sadly, they are (officially) limited to DDR3-1333 speeds, and 1080P display outputs, which limits them quite a bit, IMHO. (But they do support VGA-out, which is not officially supported on Skylake and up.)
I'm thinking of deploying a pair for browser / video boxes, with some GT 730 2GB GDDR5 cards.
Comments? I should probably be deploying G4560 boxes instead. (I have several in the "warehouse".) In that case, I woudn't even need the GT 730 cards, for the most part, unless they want to lightly game on the systems too.
In this day and age, when even an entry-level i3 CPU from Intel, is a quad-core, I know it makes little sense to use a dual-core, even overclocked, without DDR4 and a powerful iGPU. But I had them around, and I'm not charging much for them.
(Offered to build some 2200G rigs, for $400 ea., but got comments like "That's TOO MUCH money." Well, compared to your current FM1 PC, that cost $0, yeah. But you complained that you couldn't watch videos online with it.)
The other alternative for my purposes, is an ebay special on a used/refurb HP slimline, with a Celeron G3930 (Kaby Lake, dual-core), 4GB and 500GB, for $125 or so complete with Windows. How can you go wrong with a rig that cheap, that's only one year old technologically?