- Nov 20, 2005
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Today I walked out of Frys with the G3258 I have wanted for more than a year. I plan to use it to make a HTPC that basically does nothing but Dolphin and media playback, with Ubuntu Linux as the primary OS. I will overclock it as far as I can, which might be limited because I am determined to do it all via Mini ITX (via a Core V1 case).
A few quick questions before I lose the ability to return this thing:
1. I know Skylake allows overclocking on non-K chips, but is there some sub-$50 option I should have bought over this old Haswell chip? The only thing that will ever stress it is Dolphin, everything else it will do I currently do on a Chromebox. It will never ever play a game outside of Dolphin.
2. I know non-Z overclocking has taken a step back under Windows 10 for this CPU, but with an old bios and Linux I should be fine right?
3. Should I get the fastest RAM I can (it helps emulation) or is there some limit that will make me waste money after a certain point?
Thank you in advance for any advice.
A few quick questions before I lose the ability to return this thing:
1. I know Skylake allows overclocking on non-K chips, but is there some sub-$50 option I should have bought over this old Haswell chip? The only thing that will ever stress it is Dolphin, everything else it will do I currently do on a Chromebox. It will never ever play a game outside of Dolphin.
2. I know non-Z overclocking has taken a step back under Windows 10 for this CPU, but with an old bios and Linux I should be fine right?
3. Should I get the fastest RAM I can (it helps emulation) or is there some limit that will make me waste money after a certain point?
Thank you in advance for any advice.