Low end PC to upgrade

[john925]

It's the Costa Rica one. I heard it was the 20th anniversary one that was unlocked and people clocked it up to damn near 5GHz

 

[tenpole]

Mine fell over at 4.5Ghz. I run mine at 4.0Ghz permanently, always cool, always stable.

 

[john925]

I hope you read the thread somewhere on here about which boards clock the G3258. Some are not so good. Some of the pentiums also dont always clock upto 4.0ghz. Hopefully you have the Costa Rica? one and not Maylasian.

How hard is it to overclock and keep it stable?

 

[john925]

Mine fell over at 4.5Ghz. I run mine at 4.0Ghz permanently, always cool, always stable.

Yeah I saw one benchmark where it was clocked at 4.8GHz, and a few gameplay videos with it clocked a little lower

 

[tenpole]

It is easy with the MSI bios. But only go in small steps at a time.

 

[john925]

It is easy with the MSI bios. But only go in small steps at a time.

Ok cool thanks. Yeah this is a first build for me. Part of the reason why I'm going cheap too. That way if I completely screw up, I'm not out that much money