help overclocking my anniversary intel cpu

[DrumRoll]

I have a Intel Pentium G3258

 

MB: asus z97-a

 

Ram: One 4GB DDR3 at 800 Mhz and a second 4GB at 667MHz

 

GPU: Radeon HD 7700

 

PSU: Corsair 430.

 

 

Now, the reason I bought a new cpu was with view to overclocking it, however I have no idea how to go about it:D I tried once and all it did was make my computer endlessly restart every 3-4 seconds.

 

Can someone help me? I want to overclock it to about 4 or 4.5Ghz.

 

 

I have a decent aircooler that I have yet to attach so cooling shouldn't be an issue.

 

thanks in advance for any help

 

 

[JohnFlower]

I hope that air cooler is decent.

You will need a combination of voltage (a certainty if you want to achieve 4.5GHz), BCLK and multiplier increases. Be sure to read up on this stuff somewhere before going through with it.

If the motherboard is any good, you could probably just increase the multiplier and let the BIOS do the rest. My old Rampage iii Extreme does this.

[ZeroPenguins]

Oh sweet you got the anniversary edition. Not a bad CPU by any means. I personally think this is a bad forum to be asking in and there are a lot of guides out there.

 

Just watch Linus do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBfXruwe8w4

 

Should be really easy to do since it's unlocked multipler. Just turn it up and add some voltage.

[Moodkiller]

I tried once and all it did was make my computer endlessly restart every 3-4 seconds.

 

This has been briefly touched on (by JF) but this is a good/classic example of there not being enough voltage to the CPU. The other possibility is overheating but I don't think there would be a restart involved. 

 

I dont know about your MB, but there should also be a failsafe where after X amount of failed startups (after overclocking and restarting occurring just after the POST), the BIOS defaults are resorted. 

 

As ASDFGHJKL mentioned, this is definitely the wrong forums... overclock.net would be a better place if you cant use the info given to here already.

 

 

My 5 cents - I think you are going to need a bit more than air cooling if you want to bump your CPU up to 4.5Ghz - for example, this benchmarking setup used an H80i while, quote, "temperatures sat at 78°C using Prime95..."

 

Seen as I read their conclusion already, they achieved a stable run using a vcore voltage of 1.37V and a multiplier of x48 to give a OC of 4.8Ghz (conclusion)