G3258 Overclocking help please.

[xByakko]

Hi guys, I'm overclocking for someone using the pentium g3258, cooled by Noctua NH-U14S, inside a bitfenix prodigy m. motherboard is the Asus b85m-g. Low budget pc.

Anyway, I manage to get to 4.5 on 1.35V, 4.6 would require 1.37 with temps getting a little uncomfortable as I won't be monitoring it for him thus settled for 4.5.

So 4.5 is stable with stock cache ratio, so i tried increasing the cache ratio to 42 and it seemed ok (was a bit rushed on time, so the stability test wasnt very long), but now he just texted me that the comp crashed.

So im just wondering if i should just leave the cache ratio at stock, or theres some steps im missing. Very new to overclocking, so any help is welcomed. thanks in advance.

[Deletive]

I'd just keep everything else at stock, set voltage to adaptive so if you don't need to use extra voltage you don't have to.

 

[runit3]

You can keep backing the cache ratio down until you find something stable, there's no harm in it. Although, there may be some harm in running 1.3v+, 1.3 is usually the safety voltage cut off for core. Also, core isn't the only important voltage setting. You need to check VCCIN (safe zone below 1.9v), uncore (also called cache, safe zone below 1.3v), and any offsets you may have enabled/left on auto. Don't expect a stable OC if you only change the multipliers and core voltage.

[RelentlessAF]

You can keep backing the cache ratio down until you find something stable, there's no harm in it. Although, there may be some harm in running 1.3v+, 1.3 is usually the safety voltage cut off for core. Also, core isn't the only important voltage setting. You need to check VCCIN (safe zone below 1.9v), uncore (also called cache, safe zone below 1.3v), and any offsets you may have enabled/left on auto. Don't expect a stable OC if you only change the multipliers and core voltage.

The G3258 is fine up to 1.35, 1.3 is more for i5 and i7 Haswell chips.

[xByakko]

hmm guess I'll need to keep stepping down the cache....

 

OH another question if anyone sees this. Theres only auto, manual, and offset mode for this motherboard, which confuses me because under the Adaptive option in AI suite, it shows the same options as the offset mode I see in the bios. Does anyone know if this is the same thing? Or is AI suite just being lazy. I tried to play with it a little but I can't seem to get it to even work (immediate crash). If anyone has experience using this board, would love some instructions as the voltage is still set to manual atm. Thanks.