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Hey, I recently built my new pc and I want to overclock it. I built it just under a week ago and now I know there is nothing wrong with the system I want to overclock it. It has a MSI-h81m-p33 motherboard and a Sapphire r9 270x with a Pentium G3258. The only thing I am stuck on is how to update the bios. I have a usb and I've downloaded the drivers, I've tried putting them on the usb and extracting the files onto the usb but that doesn't seem to work, can anyone help me?

 

Thanks, any response will be highly appreciated.

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Hey, I recently built my new pc and I want to overclock it. I built it just under a week ago and now I know there is nothing wrong with the system I want to overclock it. It has a MSI-h81m-p33 motherboard and a Sapphire r9 270x with a Pentium G3258. The only thing I am stuck on is how to update the bios. I have a usb and I've downloaded the drivers, I've tried putting them on the usb and extracting the files onto the usb but that doesn't seem to work, can anyone help me?

 

Thanks, any response will be highly appreciated.

Well that motherboard doesn't support overclocking

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Have you tried entering the BIOS ? I'm sure this board might have a function that allows you to update BIOS through the USB key, of course on the BIOS menu

What do you mean? I've entered the bios and clicked on 'update bios' and selected my usb stick, but that didn't work. Do I need to do something to the files?

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What do you mean? I've entered the bios and clicked on 'update bios' and selected my usb stick, but that didn't work. Do I need to do something to the files?

 

Oh really? 

By the way, you should not able to overclock on that H81 board. Since H81 is just a low-end board. Probably you should get a Z87 board at the first place

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What do you mean? I've entered the bios and clicked on 'update bios' and selected my usb stick, but that didn't work. Do I need to do something to the files?

The file needs to be in root.

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So can I not overclock at all?

Apparently you can do some basic overclocking on this board (multiplier increases but no voltage changes ... or RAM speed changes)

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