Looking to see if I can Overclock

[snappeh]

Hey, I've been looking into overclocking for a bit now but I wanted to post this to see if you guys have any tips or advice for how i should go about this. I'm really looking to just overclock a little bit nothing insane.

My PC Specs :
CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @3.2GHz (Dual Core)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 750 Ti
RAM: 8 gigs
(If you need anything else tell me)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

 

[2is]

I could be wrong but I don't believe the H97 chipset supports overclocking.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I could be wrong but I don't believe the H97 chipset supports overclocking.

But... that's the H97 Anniversary. Specifically designed to overclock the Anniversary Edition Pentium (G3258). So, they may have neutered that ability, if the OP has updated to a recent BIOS. He may need to revert to an older one.

 

[LTC8K6]

Well, there's no point in overclocking a G3258 "a little bit".

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, there's no point in overclocking a G3258 "a little bit".

It's hard for me to tell what the OP means by "a little bit". Just saying, I was able to recently overclocked a couple of G3258 / H81 rigs I built, to 4.2 and 4.0. To me, that's "a little bit". Pretty solid gains, IMHO.

If this is for gaming, though, there are going to be games, written for quad-cores, that will stutter, regardless of how fast the dual-core is actually clocked. (In reality. In theory, a dual-core clocked twice as fast as the quad, could run the games pretty-much identically to the quad. But again, in reality, you won't get it clocked that high.)

 

[LTC8K6]

My G3258 went to 5.0 easily, I believe. But I kept it at 4.8 anyway as the voltage was getting a little scary, even though temps seemed okay.

I still have the chip, but haven't used it in a while.

 

[snappeh]

Thanks for the inputs guys. I was able to figure it all out