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The Pentium G3258 deals thread

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G3258 sale @ Microcenter $49.99

G3258 + MSI Z97 PC Mate combo price drop, now $89.99 & there is a $10 MSI rebate.
$10 cheaper than the combo deal they have been running since July 2014 (post #3 in this thread).

$80 $90 AR G3258 + MSI Z97 PC Mate ATX mobo, in-store only @Microcenter. A new $10 mobo rebate shows up each month. I bought one in July (running it at 4.7 Ghz on air, with a heatpipe cooler). A good deal, if you can get to a Microcenter.
http://www.microcenter.com/site/brands/G3258Bundle.aspx
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2389677&highlight=mate
 
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$84.98 GIGABYTE GA-H81M-DS2V + Pentium G3258 Haswell Dual-Core @ Newegg.com
Super Eggsaver Shipping from $2 to $6 ($3.87 for me). Better combo "discount", $40 off, than we've seen for a while from Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...=Combo.2157670

Also the ongoing Microcenter Z97 $90AR or $80AR combo seems to be dead today. RIP or will it return when the G3258 is no longer on sale @$50?
 
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Darn, I missed that Newegg combo deal, on 1/30. I could really use a few more of these combos. Want to upgrade a few friends / relatives S775 and 1155 rigs.
 
EXPIRED $90 combo (after $10 rebate) + shipping (~$4 for me). Think this board will overclock, but may be limited to 1.2 VCore (but do your own homework before buying).
GIGABYTE GA-B85M-DS3H (rev. 3.0) LGA 1150 Intel B85 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Pentium G3258 Haswell Dual-Core 3.2GHz LGA 1150 53W Desktop Processor BX80646G3258
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...=Combo.2206208
 
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janeuner said:
I own rev 2.0 of this board, and it is limited to 1.2 Vcore. Still good for a 3.8Ghz overclock. Not sure about rev 3.
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Does your board have four phase power?

P.S. The Gigabyte H81 boards with three phase power still appear to overclock well.
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...=Combo.2230693

Edit: 2015-03-02 - DEAD!

$105.98 + $7.xx ship

G3258 + GA-B85M-GAMING 3

HDMI + VGA out
Intel LAN
2 DDR3 DIMM slots
Only single BIOS chip
PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot, two x1 slots
micro-ATX (maybe? Pictures are micro-ATX, product title just says "ATX". Would be interesting if the pictures were wrong, but the "M" in the product name stands for micro-ATX, I'm pretty sure.)
 
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VirtualLarry said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...=Combo.2230693

$105.98 + $7.xx ship

G3258 + GA-B85M-GAMING 3

HDMI + VGA out
Intel LAN
2 DDR3 DIMM slots
Only single BIOS chip
PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot, two x1 slots
micro-ATX (maybe? Pictures are micro-ATX, product title just says "ATX". Would be interesting if the pictures were wrong, but the "M" in the product name stands for micro-ATX, I'm pretty sure.)
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Good deal there Larry. The Gigabyte board has decent audio and Intel Lan. 🙂
 
ALIVE 3/2/2015: $80 AR G3258 + MSI Z97 PC Mate ATX mobo, in-store only @Microcenter. A new $10 mobo rebate shows up each month. I bought one in July (running it at 4.7 Ghz on air, with a heatpipe cooler). A good deal, if you can get to a Microcenter.
Must add the cpu and the MSI motherboard to your cart. The old combo link is not active.

G3258 link ($50 by itself): http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0435187
MSI PC Mate link: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0433127
$10 Rebate: http://www.microcenter.com/store/get-rebate.aspx?pid=433127&rid=79285
 
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ALIVE 3/2/2015: $80 AR G3258 + MSI Z97 PC Mate ATX mobo, in-store only @Microcenter. A new $10 mobo rebate shows up each month. I bought one in July (running it at 4.7 Ghz on air, with a heatpipe cooler). A good deal, if you can get to a Microcenter.
Must add the cpu and the MSI motherboard to your cart. The old combo link is not active.

G3258 link ($50 by itself): http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0435187
MSI PC Mate link: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0433127
$10 Rebate: http://www.microcenter.com/store/get-rebate.aspx?pid=433127&rid=79285
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I saw this thread on another forum and some people were saying that their local microcenters didnt have the mobo in stock. Regardless, this is such a killer deal if you have a microcenter nearby. I keep missing out on the online deals because they are dead by the time I get home from work
 
Pentium G3258 $55 free shipping:

http://www.frys.com/product/8125535

8125535.01.prod.jpg
 
I got 2 of these, I have had an intermittent e8400 as my htpc and figure this will replace that and I will have a spare to boot.

Thanks OP
 
VirtualLarry said:
Wow, this combo actually lasted more than one day. In for a "few".
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I have 3 of these combos at home (2 for kids, and one as a spare work computer). They do everything thrown at them, and all run at 4.0 Ghz or faster. You need a voltage bump to get them up to 4.2 - 4.4 Ghz. Great deal.
 
I have been using a pair of the G3258 + GA-H81M-DS2V combos I got months ago for $90 or so from Newegg, and they've been performing well, but I only have the CPUs clocked at 3.6Ghz, because I had one clocked at 3.8, and started getting weird errors, so I clocked it back down a little bit. I then only clocked the other one when I built that one, to the same.

Kind of a weak overclock, but I need my PCs to be 24/7 stable, I run DC.

I jumped on these Z97 mobo combos, because I was hoping that I might be able to get 4.4Ghz OCs, and I could use the extra two SATA ports (all SATA6G is a bonus), and the front-panel USB3.0, and the four DIMM slots (in case I decide to expand my PCs to 16GB of RAM, up from 8GB).

A little concerned of the multiple Newegg reviews, claiming that it (the MSI 97), loses their boot order settings in the BIOS. I don't know if that's just CMOS battery failure, or something else (BIOS bug?). Also, DO NOT use MSI "LiveUpdate" to update your BIOS on those boards, I've heard it's a quick way to brick your board.
 
VirtualLarry said:
I have been using a pair of the G3258 + GA-H81M-DS2V combos I got months ago for $90 or so from Newegg, and they've been performing well, but I only have the CPUs clocked at 3.6Ghz, because I had one clocked at 3.8, and started getting weird errors, so I clocked it back down a little bit. I then only clocked the other one when I built that one, to the same.

Kind of a weak overclock, but I need my PCs to be 24/7 stable, I run DC.
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Did you crank up the voltage? I got mine set at at 1.3V @ 4.4GHz. They get toasty under load but its been almost a year and they havent died yet.
 
My combos were with the PC-Mate motherboard, and the easiest way to overclock is to just set it to auto-mode. It automatically cranks up the voltage when you change the multiplier. I seems to error on the side of caution with the auto-voltage, making it a bit higher that what you see on the Aandtech review:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8232/...ary-edition-review-the-intel-pentium-g3258-ae

So, like the last post, I would also recommend 1.3V for a 4.4 Ghz overlock. The cpu spends most of its time at lower speeds and voltages, and even at full load it doesn't seem to get that hot - at least everything is stable, and I don't notice any extra heat, and I'm a quiet freak, who undervolts fans and hates extra noise.
 
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