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Haswell Refresh Gaming benchmarks

justin4pack

justin4pack

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So I found a good deal on the haswell refresh for gaming but none referenced the Pentiums. Does anyone have any info on gaming stats comparing the new i3 vs the Pentium?
 
If you mean the new unlocked Pentium G3258. On stock it'll be close to 70% of entry level Haswell i3. When overclocked it'll perform more than entry level Haswell i3.

It'll also consume more power when overclocked.
 
If you can get 1 of those low-end H71/81/91 or whatever chipset mobo's that allows overclocking, the new Pentium K would be quite nice. If you have to buy a higher-end board to oc the Pentium then get an i3. Typical Intel trying to make you buy a higher-end chipset based mobo for a lower-end chip. I think someone said Asus has a low-end H chipset board that will oc the new Pentium, but I could easily see Intel banning it and milking the customer as usual.
 
There's a thread here about the performance of the unlocked Pentium vs the i3 and others. I do not see the OC'ed G3258 beating the i3 at anything except some ST synthetics.
 
shrewdgamer said:
I meant entry level Haswell i3, which is i3 4130. Not i3 4330.
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The 4130 is cut down from the 4330 a bit, in cache as well as clock speed, but I haven't seen comparative benchmarks with the i3-4130 vs the G3258. I'm not sure there would be that big of a difference in real-world applications.
 
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