What motherboards have Non-Z overclocking enabled for Pentium 3258?

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crashtech

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Thanks for the info.

Have you tried overclocking yet?
I've been very busy, but the way I verified the adustability of the multiplier was to manually set it to 40x and boot into Windows, CPU-Z did indeed report 4GHz. I may have some time tonight when it cools down to see if I can get into the upper 40's on the multiplier, though ambient temps in my garage work area are very high right now, even into the evening hours.

Edit: Only got 4.39GHz out of my combo, due to the voltage being limited to 1.2V. It never exceeded 70°C during Cinebench 11.5 even with high ambient temps.
 
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Flapdrol1337

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Is it possible to flash the bios of H81 boards using the new 3258 pentium? it's not a devils canyon right?
 

crashtech

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It's just a Haswell Pentium that has an unlocked multiplier. There's no 8-series board on which it should not boot.
 

smunter6

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Another vote for the Gigabyte B85M-DS3H. Using F6 BIOS. Got it up to 4.3 stable before hitting the 1.2V cap.

Has anyone had any success overclocking memory on this board? seems to be limited to the default 1333MHz.
 

Flapdrol1337

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H81 pro btc's can be had really cheaply now the mining hype died. Fingers crossed :p

Will report back when I have it.
 

Flapdrol1337

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Doesn't list it for any H81 board afaik. There was a non z oc thingy in the manual and there's a 3258 compatible bios.
 

AkumaX

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think you can re-order your list in alphabetical order (via manufacturer?) also, don't really need #'s :)

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ASRock H81M-HDS (OC to 4.5 Ghz. See post #19.)

ASRock H81M-ITX/Wifi (See page 61 of the owners manual published May 2014: http://download.asrock.com/manual/H81M-ITXWiFi.pdf)

ASRock B85 Killer Fatal1ty (Several Newegg reviewers claim Non-Z overclocking was working back in March 2014)

ASRock H97M Pro4 (see page 70 page of the following owners manual published April 2014 under "4.3 OC Tweaker Screen" for Non-Z overclock--> ftp://66.226.78.21/manual/H97M Pro4.pdf )

ASRock H97 Fatal1ty Performance (See review dated June 30th, 2014--> http://www.pcgameware.co.uk/reviews/...rboard-review/ )

Gigabyte H81M-DS2V (OC to 4.39 GHz.) See post #26.)

Gigabyte B85M-DS3H (reported to Non-Z OC Pentium 3258 to 4.3 Ghz, see post #31 and 4.0 Ghz post #14)

MSI B85-G43 gaming (see post #16, OC was 4.5 Ghz. There is also a video from 2013 in #6. Glad to see Non-Z overclocking still working on that board in 2014)
 
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justin4pack

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I purchased a BIOSTAR Hi-Fi B85S3 Ver. 6.x. It is said HERE That these boards should allow OC. I will update once all parts are received and testing begins.

FWIW This board only cost me $40 and cpu was $65, so just about what the Micro center combo was. Still not as cheap as the original Newegg combo for $89.99.
 

Flapdrol1337

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looks like it's a no go for the asrock H81 pro BTC, won't go over 3200, even though cpu-z shows higher multi's as available, no non-z oc to be seen in the bios.

edit: scratch that, beta bios (1.54) has it, and it works. Asrock H81 Pro BTC
 
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cbn

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FWIW This board only cost me $40 and cpu was $65, so just about what the Micro center combo was. Still not as cheap as the original Newegg combo for $89.99.

Tiger direct has the G3258 (with three red 120mm case fans) on sale for $49.99 After rebate, free shipping:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=9116213

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crashtech

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Numbers don't make sense, unless we are rating them by overclock achieved from highest to lowest, or something like that.
 

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Gigabyte GA-H97M-HD3

The manual for this µATX board also promises on page 19
K OC (Note) Allows for increased performance by using certain CPUs.
PDF Link

I haven't tested the OC on these boards though, as I only built them with Celerons hoping for a Broadwell-K upgrade down the line. Which may come in 2015 the

earliest, and only technically in 2014. Now i'm not even entirely sure if "supports 4th and 5th Generation Intel CPUs" means Haswell/Broadwell or

Haswell/Refresh/Devil's Canyon or sth. else entirely.
 

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Numbers don't make sense, unless we are rating them by overclock achieved from highest to lowest, or something like that.

I only had the numbers in there because it looked more orderly to my eye.

But then I realized, after adding in additional entries I would potentially have to do a lot of re-numbering. (Thus the reason you know see no numbers. AkumaX was thinking ahead)
 

soto241

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Hi guys, in the begging i must say, i'm from poland and my eng is bad like "KALI EAT KALI SLEEP" so dont be mad ;]

2days ago i've bought new mobo, ram and cpu. I have Pentium G3258 and gigabyte GA-H81-D3 and i want to OC it, but intel block oc on H81, that why i'm ehere. Anybody can help me with it? I've got F6 BIOS version.
 

crashtech

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Hi guys, in the begging i must say, i'm from poland and my eng is bad like "KALI EAT KALI SLEEP" so dont be mad ;]

2days ago i've bought new mobo, ram and cpu. I have Pentium G3258 and gigabyte GA-H81-D3 and i want to OC it, but intel block oc on H81, that why i'm ehere. Anybody can help me with it? I've got F6 BIOS version.
Some H81 boards have BIOS revisions that will allow overclocking, but not all. Have you ever done overclocking before now? There are certain things you have to do in the BIOS to make it happen.
 

soto241

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Ye, i've been overclocking Q8200. i've never use uefi to oc, can you link tutorial or sth?