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Overclocking with a H81M-E

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Temps will likely not be your limitation, that board will. I have yet to see any strong overclocks come out of H81's. Most are limited to 1.2v or run into stability issue(s) that prevent them from getting higher than 4.5-4.6.

That being said, doesn't hurt to try. I had a G3258 @1.275v on the stock cooler 4.6GHz maxing at 76C under XTU, this was on Z97 but temps should correlate regardless of board. On the 212 EVO I was at 1.35v and 4.8GHz, same max 75-76C under load.

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I wanted to spend a small amount of money on my CPU and Mobo for a cheap gaming computer I picked up

 

Pentium G3258

ASUS H81M-E motherboard

For my CPU cooler I have a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

 

I've seen online its possible to overclock on this motherboard but without a good cooler it will reach very hot temperatures at just 4.0Ghz.

Are these sites just bull or do you guys think I could overclock higher? If so please tell me how high I could clock and if they're correct could you tell me what motherboard thats at a good price I could upgrade to? Asus only please. :)

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Overclocking is random, you may get 4.5ghz, you may get 3.8ghz, you never know. With a decent cooler (212 evo) you should get in the 4.5ghz-4.8ghz

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Temps will likely not be your limitation, that board will. I have yet to see any strong overclocks come out of H81's. Most are limited to 1.2v or run into stability issue(s) that prevent them from getting higher than 4.5-4.6.

That being said, doesn't hurt to try. I had a G3258 @1.275v on the stock cooler 4.6GHz maxing at 76C under XTU, this was on Z97 but temps should correlate regardless of board. On the 212 EVO I was at 1.35v and 4.8GHz, same max 75-76C under load.

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Temps will likely not be your limitation, that board will. I have yet to see any strong overclocks come out of H81's. Most are limited to 1.2v or run into stability issue(s) that prevent them from getting higher than 4.5-4.6.

That being said, doesn't hurt to try. I had a G3258 @1.275v on the stock cooler 4.6GHz maxing at 76C under XTU, this was on Z97 but temps should correlate regardless of board. On the 212 EVO I was at 1.35v and 4.8GHz, same max 75-76C under load.

Well I would be very happy with a 4.5Ghz overclock because this isn't going to be a computer I will have for long just until I have some money for a better PC so do you think I could actually push it to 4.5Ghz or was that just a prediction?

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