Hi, this is my first time overclocking a CPU so bear with me. I bought a Pentium G3258 with a Z97 board and I've seen people reliably getting in excess of 4.5 Ghz but I seem to be stuck at 4.1 Ghz. I'd like to know whether it's my motherboard that's preventing me from going higher or something else (maybe I just got a "runt of the litter" CPU).
This is my setup:
Motherboard: MSI Gaming 3 Z97 (yes, it's the cheapest of the series so the problem might be there)
Cooler: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo
RAM: 8GB 1600Mhz DDR3
GPU: Radeon R7 250X
At 4.2 Ghz, the PC boots but is too unstable. Any higher than that and the motherboard starts throwing errors (A2 or 99) and refuses to boot until I reset the CMOS. I tried keeping the voltage on Auto in the BIOS, then raising it to 1.25V but with no luck. Am I missing something here?
This is my setup:
Motherboard: MSI Gaming 3 Z97 (yes, it's the cheapest of the series so the problem might be there)
Cooler: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo
RAM: 8GB 1600Mhz DDR3
GPU: Radeon R7 250X
At 4.2 Ghz, the PC boots but is too unstable. Any higher than that and the motherboard starts throwing errors (A2 or 99) and refuses to boot until I reset the CMOS. I tried keeping the voltage on Auto in the BIOS, then raising it to 1.25V but with no luck. Am I missing something here?
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