overclocking tips for g3258?

[shmann]

I just wanted to post here to see if anyone had any tips for me. I'm new to overclocking, so please bear with me

I have the Pentium G3259 + MSI Z97 PC MATE bundle from Micro Center. last Sunday I got a chance to try overclocking for the first time. I followed Darkwizzie's Haswell overclocking guide the best that I could. I switched adaptive to override, as he recommended, and set the ring bus to stock multiplier manually. as far as C States and EIST, I just left it as it was-- they're both either enabled or auto, I can't remember which. really, besides override and manual ring bus multiplier, I basically just increased the cpu multiplier and the core voltage by trial and error and touched nothing else.

I was able to hit 4.4 ghz with the cpu core voltage at 1.25, but when I ran prime85 blend it got pretty hot (up to 85°C in one core), and if I remember correctly it might have gone to bsod, too. at any rate, I went back down to 4.3 ghz, which allowed me to back off to 1.22v on the core. this ran for 80 minutes on prime95 blend (max temp was maybe 82°C), and then overnight on Angelotti's x264 (auto, normal; max temp was maybe 76°C)

I figure it's probably ok to let it get over 80°C on prime95 if I'm just playing games on it for normal use. I guess the next step for me is to get a 212 EVO and see how far that takes me.

any tips? is my assumption about temps correct? is there anything I have overlooked that is worth toying with?

thanks!

 

[TopLuca]

I just wanted to post here to see if anyone had any tips for me. I'm new to overclocking, so please bear with me

I have the Pentium G3259 + MSI Z97 PC MATE bundle from Micro Center. last Sunday I got a chance to try overclocking for the first time. I followed Darkwizzie's Haswell overclocking guide the best that I could. I switched adaptive to override, as he recommended, and set the ring bus to stock multiplier manually. as far as C States and EIST, I just left it as it was-- they're both either enabled or auto, I can't remember which. really, besides override and manual ring bus multiplier, I basically just increased the cpu multiplier and the core voltage by trial and error and touched nothing else.

I was able to hit 4.4 ghz with the cpu core voltage at 1.25, but when I ran prime85 blend it got pretty hot (up to 85°C in one core), and if I remember correctly it might have gone to bsod, too. at any rate, I went back down to 4.3 ghz, which allowed me to back off to 1.22v on the core. this ran for 80 minutes on prime95 blend (max temp was maybe 82°C), and then overnight on Angelotti's x264 (auto, normal; max temp was maybe 76°C)

I figure it's probably ok to let it get over 80°C on prime95 if I'm just playing games on it for normal use. I guess the next step for me is to get a 212 EVO and see how far that takes me.

any tips? is my assumption about temps correct? is there anything I have overlooked that is worth toying with?

thanks!

Thats really off topic what I'm going to ask but for how much did you get the bundle and what were the other motherboards available ? I'm not that helpful at overclocking so I don't want to tell you bad piece of advice so others will prove to be more helpful , sorry and thanks in advance.

 

[shmann]

Micro Center had a bundle for $99 in-store pickup only-- luckily I found one in driving distance. otherwise I would have gone for a cheaper ASUS board like the H81

 

[TopLuca]

Micro Center had a bundle for $99 in-store pickup only-- luckily I found one in driving distance. otherwise I would have gone for a cheaper ASUS board like the H81

Thats very good mate thank you , I have one in Driving distance too ... Were there any Asus Motherboards available ? Thanks again

 

[shmann]

didn't even look at the asus boards-- I figured the deal was pretty solid and my understanding is the Z97 is "officially supported." tbh I don't know much about this stuff either I'm pretty new to it. I will tell you that the gaming performance dramatically increased with the overclock, and I'm getting 1080p ~60fps with pretty high settings (I got the R9 270 for the build too)

 

[Zircoben]

didn't even look at the asus boards-- I figured the deal was pretty solid and my understanding is the Z97 is "officially supported." tbh I don't know much about this stuff either I'm pretty new to it. I will tell you that the gaming performance dramatically increased with the overclock, and I'm getting 1080p ~60fps with pretty high settings (I got the R9 270 for the build too)

Interesting! Thank you for sharing all your advice and your work.

I have an ASUS H87 motherboard, and a G3258, and an R9 270.

I was just wondering what CPU cooler you used for all of this... did you get that far on the stock cooler?

For some reason, my G3258, at 1.17V and 4.2 GHz, it just rebooted after 1 minute of prime95, with the stock cooler, running at 82C.

I'm a total noob at overclocking, even with my CPU badge, but what seems to be my problem here, anybody?

 

[shmann]

I was just wondering what CPU cooler you used for all of this... did you get that far on the stock cooler?

For some reason, my G3258, at 1.17V and 4.2 GHz, it just rebooted after 1 minute of prime95, with the stock cooler, running at 82C.

I'm a total noob at overclocking, even with my CPU badge, but what seems to be my problem here, anybody?

I was using the stock cooling when I posted that. I took the plunge and bought a 212 evo and I've got it up to 4.6 GHz stable, but I'm working on the voltages, I think I need to up the VCCIN for stability when I hit 1.3 or 1.35 V or so.

as to your question, someone suggested to me to use prime95 version 27.9 with a custom loop of 1344 min 1344 max rather than the standard blend setting (it seemed to help, but someone else said it doesn't matter).

regardless, I'm surprised you're seeing such high temps at only 1.17

how are you checking temps? make sure you're using something like HWiNFO or Core Temp because results may differ with other software (for example speedfan gives me total garbage readings)

did you make sure to set your voltages to override instead of adaptive mode?

sometimes it's the luck of the draw-- your results may vary from mine-- but assuming you did set to override, I have to wonder if maybe you didn't seat your cooler quite right. if you do want to reseat it, just make sure you buy new thermal paste and clean the old stuff off carefully with isopropanol.

if you're new to overclocking, I recommend reading this guide carefully:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1411077/haswell-overclocking-guide-with-statistics

above all, take everyone's advice with a grain of salt-- look at me, giving advice like I know what I'm talking about, and I've been doing it for all of a week