Hicookie, a professional overclocker, increased the frequency of one of Intel's cheapest Alder Lake-based CPUs — the Pentium Gold G7400T, which retails for $64 — from 3.1 GHz to 5.8 GHz by modify... Intel's Pentium Gold G7400T $64 Alder Lake CPU overclocked to 5.8 GHz.
the mobo that was used costs more than an entire G7400T based system. i was going to use one of these Pentium Golds for a digital audio deck but then i remembered what a drag transcoding audio files was on a two core... still this is a great buy for kids and old folks.
People really crap all over 2cores but for a lot of people that use it for fb/browsing and office it is perfect !
So it will not browse do office and do zoom calls etc just fine? What more do you need for these tasks ? Why for example my father where he just reading the news and light YouTube need to pay more than 70 euros for a cpu+gpu ?
it's more important to have a modern,hw accelerated decoder a fast,modern 2c/4t with a ssd and enough ram will do just fine.I'd prefer that over an older 4c/4t
Well he will get my 1600 for free soon-ish , but yes if he had to pay a dual core alder lake with the absolute cheapest mb and 8gb of ddr4 value ram is what i would have brought for him. Atm he seems happy with the a4300 apu .
I'd fear how horrible 0.1% and 1% lows would be with just 2 cores/4 threads, I'd fear how it'd be even with 4 cores. I think these days the reasonable minimum is 6c/12t to be safe-ish when it comes to avoiding frame time issues. Even for just $64 USD, even if the mobo options weren't a dumpster fire, I wouldn't buy a 2 core CPU under any circumstance.
who says this is for gaming Jesus,people writing about 0.1% lows on an office computer you know this isn't even gonna be paired with a dedicated GPU in most cases ?
And you think one in an office PC is going to be OC'd to 5.8GHz? This thread obviously isn't about practical use. A 10 year old CPU with any SSD works "fine" for an office PC.
Hahahaha i can die happy if out of the blue my 70 years old father overclocks his pc ! Mind you i deep-freeze his pc before that every 2 weeks i had to fix it , literally littered with shovelwhare and extra bars and extension browser hijackers too he would always claim he did nothing! After i deepfrrezed his pc all this stopped ! By the way my initial comment about the cpu i do not expect anyone to oc it for serious gaming and yeah it will be stuttering city ! Would be interesting just for fan to see how this cpu fairs against a 3570k etc.
I like that our OC enthusiasts help find the silicone limits but it would have been way more useful to have it run 24/7 with CPU bound tests to see the impacts such as emulators, CPU bound games, and mins average + mins 0.1% vs 4-6 cores at least, as others have correctly pointed out.