Is the Pentium G3258 compatible with H81m motherboards?

[Guest]

Hi,

I am building a budget gaming system. What I want to know is that if I can use the Pentium G3258 on an ASUS H81M motherboard.

Many thanks,
AKNerd

 

[bignastyid]

More than likely it is. Check the cpu compatibility lists on the product page for that board on Asus's website

 

[Rogue Leader]

Yes all ASUS H81M motherboards support that CPU

 

[Simran Jeet]

yes h81m supports g3258 but if u want to oc you have to buy a z97 mobo because intel made this chipset officially for overclocking

 

[th3legitbeast]

yes h81m supports g3258 but if u want to oc you have to buy a z97 mobo because intel made this chipset officially for overclocking

The G3258 is Overclockable on almost any board

 

[Karadjgne]

As long as the bios is unlocked for that cpu. The h81 will support the stock g3258, but whether it will support OC is a different matter. Some will, asrock, Asus, msi, Gigabyte most if not all the h81, ecs, Biostar, Intel are doubtful.

 

[UnderAttack]

well, yes
it with the same socket
but have to know, g3258 is a special cpu which also support for overclocking
but h81 without the special bios, you cant overclocking the cpu without z series motherboard
so you may want to find the overclocking bios for it, I know msi h81-p33 do have the bios
but not sure for the asus one.

but if you are not care about the overclocking
this will be a good combo!

 

[Karadjgne]

To be honest, the g3258 was a fad, a gimmick by Intel. At the end of the day you get a @4.5GHz dual core cpu which struggles with anything beyond single threaded games like skyrim or fallout. A good i3 may not have the top end speed, but at least it has hyperthreading, simulating a quad core, able to process 4 threads, which is where the majority of games are headed. Single thread games just can't carry any real complexity, and are basically a dieing breed. If you plan on sticking with skyrim for the length of the pc's life, cool, more power to you, but if you have any wish to play games like bf4, batman, gtx, crysis, starwars battlefront then you need to be looking at a quad core cpu. Anything less and the framerates will be so slow, not even the fastest dual core will be much help.

Pad the budget, get an i5-4460 with the MSI h81 p33 and forget about OC. Skyrim and fallout will play the same, and you'll have the upgrade path to any game you wish with any current gpu. That's not going to happen with a G3258 Pentium dual core