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Well looks like I lost the silicon lottery. I just started overclocking my G3258 for my NAS/Micro server build and currently the highest stable I have been able too get is 3.8Ghz at 1.30v. Don't want to really increase the voltage much more as I intend for this thing to be on 24/7 and it needs to be stable.

                                                                                                                                                      

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What are you using to stress test it?

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Bummer, preliminary testing showed my chip stable at 4.6Ghz 1.24v

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Is this a heat limit or stablity limit? is your bios updated?

Stability. Anything over 3.8Ghz at 1.30v crashed under 20 minuets of stress testing. And yes latest BIOS is on the board, I made sure before I started.

what cooler are you using?

Noctua NH-L9i. Currently 1.5 hours into a stress test and max temp is 55c with an average of 49c

What are you using to stress test it?

Aida64.

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CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($55.00 @ Amazon)

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.99 @ Mwave)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($115.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($77.09 @ Amazon)

Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($109.97 @ SuperBiiz)

Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($119.99 @ NCIX US)

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Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($119.99 @ NCIX US)

Case: Silverstone DS380B Mini ITX Tower Case ($149.99 @ Amazon)

Power Supply: Silverstone 300W 80+ Bronze Certified SFX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Amazon)

Other: Microsoft Server 2012R2 ($0.00)

Total: $1084.97

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 CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 | Case: Corsair 760T (White) | Peripherals: (2)Asus VS247H-P, Corsair M65, Corsair K70 RGB w/ Brown Switches

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Aida64. 

Only use intel XTU for stress testing intel CPUs.

It is much safer, and you will probably get a better overclock.

Try it out ;)

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Only use intel XTU for stress testing intel CPUs.

It is much safer, and you will probably get a better overclock.

Try it out ;)

Downloading it now. I will bump it back up to 4.0 and see what happens

Same result with XTU. Even uped the voltage to 1.35 at 4.0Ghz and it failed in under a second. I will add that I have all of intels adaptive voltage settings off currently.

                                                                                                                                                      

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Same result with XTU. Even uped the voltage to 1.35 at 4.0Ghz and it failed in under a second. I will add that I have all of intels adaptive voltage settings off currently. 

considering mine was at 3.8Ghz at 1.28 don't feel so bad lol

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considering mine was at 3.8Ghz at 1.28 don't feel so bad lol

I guess I just don't have any luck when it comes to the silicon lottery lol. My 760 didn't overclock at all basically. Hopefully my 980 won't be that way. 

                                                                                                                                                      

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PSU: Corsair EVGA G2 850W  | SSD: Intel 730 Series 480GB, Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB | HDD: WD Black 1TB

 CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 | Case: Corsair 760T (White) | Peripherals: (2)Asus VS247H-P, Corsair M65, Corsair K70 RGB w/ Brown Switches

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Well, 15 hours into a stress test, it failed at 3.8Ghz at 1.3V. Guess for now I will just run it at a stock clock

                                                                                                                                                      

CPU: Intel I7-4790k | MOBO: Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 | Ram: Corsair Vengance 32GB 1600hz | GPU: EVGA GTX980 Reference

PSU: Corsair EVGA G2 850W  | SSD: Intel 730 Series 480GB, Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB | HDD: WD Black 1TB

 CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 | Case: Corsair 760T (White) | Peripherals: (2)Asus VS247H-P, Corsair M65, Corsair K70 RGB w/ Brown Switches

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