g3258 4.4ghz max?

P47Fighter

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Hello everyone, I'm a new in all related to building PCs and even windows, I built a budget PC with a g3258 and originally a h81m HDS as rock, but the bios was so complicated at least for me since I'm so new in all this, plus it was lacking lots of the settings I read about in the oc forums, so after a couple weeks of trying I decided to get a new motherboards; asus z97 a, which I found more information about, plus it would let me upgrade my ram and put even 2 graphic cards etc, basically more upgrade options in the future so I put on the CPU a noctua nh u9 and started overclocking.
I only achieved 4.4ghz with 1.33 vcore and 84 of max temperatures after a night of running Aida 64, the problem is: I read people over clocked this little ducker to 4.6ghz with the stock cooler, and 1.24vcore?
Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong? Did I get a deffextive CPU? Is it my power supply(500w bronze+)? Or am I just not experienced enough?

Thank you very much all of you in this forum I have learn quite a lot from tomshardware.
 
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tomkis90

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Every cpu is different and as far as I can see some people hit 4.7ghz at 1.35V and I havent seen anyone hit 4.6ghz with vcore of 1.24 unless they got REALLY lucky in the silicone lottery or they hit that booted up and just looked at their desktop without stressing the cpu. ( I can hit 5ghz with 1.31V it boots but it crashes after my cpu gets 4-5%load )
You might have gotten a chip that is not that good at overclocking its a lottery some people win some people loose and I would recommend not increasing the voltage any more, 1.3V is the sweet spot and the temps are high enough.
 
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