Hello, everyone.
I read the review on g3258 overclocking and thought I'd give it a try. I was on a very tight budget and wanted to make the cheapest gaming pc possible. I also had some spare parts from my older pc's, so I got an MSI H81M-P33 board and a g3258 CPU.
I also installed the latest BIOS v 1.7.
At first, I wasn't even able to overclock at all since I couldn't figure out that I need to use the plus key on CPU rate to increase it, and can't do that with mouse. Intel Extreme Tuning Unitility however, still doesn't want to unlock my CPU and overclock it, but not a big problem I guess.
However, I can't make my system to run (it either doesn't post at all or throws BSOD during windows boot) when the CPU is at a higher rate than 3.7k Hz. Which is not quite what I had hopes for.
I'd like to know, what might be the reason for that. I have high doubts about my old PSU which might be the cause of the problem, however, I'd like to know if it is at all possible. I also suspect my RAM.
I should also add that I am very now to overclocking and do anything like that for the first time. Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you.
My full specs are:
CPU: g3258
Motherboard: MSI H81M-p33
PSU: Super Power Real Power 450 W
Memory: 1 stick Hyundai 4096 MBytes 1333 MHz (At least I thought it was but CPU-Z shows 667 MHz for some reason)
Graphics: Radeon R7 250X
I read the review on g3258 overclocking and thought I'd give it a try. I was on a very tight budget and wanted to make the cheapest gaming pc possible. I also had some spare parts from my older pc's, so I got an MSI H81M-P33 board and a g3258 CPU.
I also installed the latest BIOS v 1.7.
At first, I wasn't even able to overclock at all since I couldn't figure out that I need to use the plus key on CPU rate to increase it, and can't do that with mouse. Intel Extreme Tuning Unitility however, still doesn't want to unlock my CPU and overclock it, but not a big problem I guess.
However, I can't make my system to run (it either doesn't post at all or throws BSOD during windows boot) when the CPU is at a higher rate than 3.7k Hz. Which is not quite what I had hopes for.
I'd like to know, what might be the reason for that. I have high doubts about my old PSU which might be the cause of the problem, however, I'd like to know if it is at all possible. I also suspect my RAM.
I should also add that I am very now to overclocking and do anything like that for the first time. Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you.
My full specs are:
CPU: g3258
Motherboard: MSI H81M-p33
PSU: Super Power Real Power 450 W
Memory: 1 stick Hyundai 4096 MBytes 1333 MHz (At least I thought it was but CPU-Z shows 667 MHz for some reason)
Graphics: Radeon R7 250X