Safe OC for Pentium G3258?

[Guest]

What would be a safe OC, with the stock cooler, for the Pentium G3258? I'm a beginner at this stuff, so go easy
System Specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Nataaniel/saved/LmjCmG

 

[Onus]

It varies, due to the "silicon lottery." I have two G3258 chips myself. One of them is not stable at 4.2GHz, even on 1.3V. The other one does 4.2GHz on 1.2V; I've not tried to go higher. Some people have reached 4.4GHz or even 4.6GHz with theirs (though the latter is unlikely on the stock cooler).

 

[Sammyjo20]

What would be a safe OC, with the stock cooler, for the Pentium G3258? I'm a beginner at this stuff, so go easy
System Specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Nataaniel/saved/LmjCmG

I'd say about 4.2. Some people have got it to 4.8. There are good tutorials out there that can help you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBfXruwe8w4

- Sam

 

[Guest]

Using AsRock EZ OC option, since I'm a newb, I clocked it to 4.0 and got around 80 degrees Celsius, a max of 85, with Prime95. Is this safe?

 

[Onus]

In actual use, you won't hit those temps. That is the edge of what I'd consider safe, although I would not expect 4.0GHz to get that hot unless the board applied a lot of extra voltage. You might see if you can lower the voltage from whatever ASRock selected and see if it remains stable.

 

[Guest]

What do I do exactly? I REALLY don't want to mess with something that wrecks my system.

 

[Onus]

There should be some voltage settings in the BIOS, I believe on the "OC Tweaker" tab. I can't see media sharing sites at work, but if you can post some screen shots, another person should be able to view them and offer suggestions. You can get screen shots of BIOS pages by plugging in a thumb drive and using the F12 key.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

H5 Cryorig Cooler with Z97 Pro Gamer.

 

[gerr]

Generally most consider a 4.0Ghz as the starting OC for a G3258, so that's the "safe" OC. Most can get to 4.2Ghz or higher, but have not heard of any that can't make it to 4.0Ghz.