Unlocking a G3258 with A MSI H81M-P33 motherboard.

ettanktech

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Jun 19, 2016
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The Box next to the CPU says auto and It won't let me change it. I tried updating Bios and nothing I do works, The computer came with windows 10. I have read where some people were saying a update on windows 10 causes this problem. What every the problem, I need help, I put some ram in the wife's computer, and it went from a 4.3 to a 3.2, We bought it with the 4.3 and I was trying to get a little more out of it because she complains about lagging while playing her games, A benchmark site said the ram was under performing and to turn on Bios under x.m.p. What ever I did mess up the 4.3 setting. I have read the MSI motherboard manual, watched videos and download intel overclocking tools Nothing works. I found a build that was saved, that makes it to 4.0 but goes into turbo up to 5.0 which scares me, I don't want to destroy the CPU. The benchmark site say it is performing way above expectations. It is not crashing or anything,. would it be safe to leave it at these settings?
 

ettanktech

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Jun 19, 2016
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75c max temp on stress test. I am not sure of the cooler, most likely the cheapest one. I bought this computer for my wife to game on, off of eBay I only paid $315.00 including shipping. It was a new build. (not used) I didn't put it together. maybe if you told me what to look for I could tell you what kind of cooler. I know where the cooler is, just not how to identify it. I would still like to bump it up, back to the 4.3
 

ettanktech

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Jun 19, 2016
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I accidently picked a solution on that question. Think I was going to get a solution, I am a dummy I went back to the intel tool that is for the extreme cpu's and it said the cpu was locked again, so I clicked unlock and that just defaulted everything back to 3.2, so I reloaded the 4..0 that works. I am still worried about that turbo speed, the stress test didn't seem to kick that in. My wife gamed on it all day, with no problems. she didn't notice any difference. If she would have woke up to it be a 3.2 she would have noticed and flipped out on me. I am waiting on a 550w power supply to come in. I already bought a Msi 4 gig 380 graphics card. I am hoping this will get her off my back about lagging for a long time.