What's a safe overclock for an Intel g3258 on a stock cooler?
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geofelt
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How high you can go is determined by the quality of your particular chip.
Like other haswell chips, that may vary.
The stock cooler will probably be OK with any conservative OC, but it may spin up and get very noisy.
The key thing to watch is how high your vcore gets.
You can probably do 1.25 for 24/7 operation. That will probably be in the 4.2 to 4.4 area.
I would not go past 1.3 for long term usage even if your cooler were good enough.
I suggest you stress test with occt and see how you do. The test will stop at 85c. by default.
Do not be alarmed of the cores have somewhat differing temperatures.
Under normal usage, you will never consistently push the cpu to get to the high levels of a stress test.
Like other haswell chips, that may vary.
The stock cooler will probably be OK with any conservative OC, but it may spin up and get very noisy.
The key thing to watch is how high your vcore gets.
You can probably do 1.25 for 24/7 operation. That will probably be in the 4.2 to 4.4 area.
I would not go past 1.3 for long term usage even if your cooler were good enough.
I suggest you stress test with occt and see how you do. The test will stop at 85c. by default.
Do not be alarmed of the cores have somewhat differing temperatures.
Under normal usage, you will never consistently push the cpu to get to the high levels of a stress test.
I'm actually getting it in the mail tomorrow. I'm replacing my a10-6800k, and I'm pretty new to overclocking. By new, I mean NEW. 
If it runs games fine at 1600x900 without needing to o/c then I'm fine until I get some dough for an aftermarket cooler, but it seems that overclocking is the way to go for this processor.
If it runs games fine at 1600x900 without needing to o/c then I'm fine until I get some dough for an aftermarket cooler, but it seems that overclocking is the way to go for this processor.
Thanks for the responses guys. It's been helpful for sure. I just wanted to close the topic with one more link.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1500524/intel-pentium-g3258-performance-and-owners-thread#
He is overclocking the chip at 4.4ghz with a stock cooler. That seems pretty insane, but he's had good results. I probably won't go that high, but I did find that impressive.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1500524/intel-pentium-g3258-performance-and-owners-thread#
He is overclocking the chip at 4.4ghz with a stock cooler. That seems pretty insane, but he's had good results. I probably won't go that high, but I did find that impressive.
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I guess it's possible if he got a high binned chip. His idea of 'too hot' might be different than mine. The little dual core starts out life as only a 53W processor at stock speed. So it has a way to go before it exceeds the capacity of the stock cooler which probably has a TDP of 65W.
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