Help overclocking G3258 on a Asus Maximus VI Impact board

ganons

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Built a budget PC for the 1st time for some emulation and I need help overclocking the CPU. I joined the Asus rog forums but it doesnt let me post yet. Here are my parts:

Asus Maximus VI Impact
Pentium G3258
HyperX FURY Series 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 1866MHz CL10 DIMM
Be Quiet Pure Power L8-CM 430W PSU

Gets a bit confusing with voltage adjustment and ram speed. Is overclocking suite recommended or BIOS? I have a stock cooler and hoping ro reacg 4.2 ghz though Ive read some managed higher.
 

ganons

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So I tried yesterday and increased the multiplier to 40 loaded dolphin emulator which is cpu intensive and noticed on coretemp that the cpu speeds fluctutates from 799, 2xxx, and 3999. Is it not supposed to be fixed at 3999 through out?
 

ganons

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Had to bsods yesterday while using dolphin emulator about 15 mins in. Once at 4ghz and 4.2 ghz, both times the only thing I did was changing the multiplier to 40 and 42. So the next step would be to manually set voltage rate?