Overclocking the Pentuim K G3528?

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Hello, what cooler and mATX motherboard would I need to easily overclock that chip?

How hard is it to actually overclock it, never done it before, so thought it might be sensible to ask first.

This is for an upgrade for someone else, other ideas are an i3-4330 based setup or an FX-6350 based setup. If it's straight forward to do I'll go with the overclocked setup. It would be perfect for their needs.


Many thanks in advance. ;)
 
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If you are going to be spending the money on an overclocking board (you could try with an H81 but might have mixed results, so Z87/97 is best), you may as well just go for a 6300 with a cheap board like a Gigabyte 78LMT (matx and cheap).
 
It's a beast of a chip if coupled with a GPU. The built-in GPU on it isn't that good, but it can run some old games on "alright" details (WoW etc). Normal heaven score with it is around 370, if that tells you anything.

If you don't have a GPU, the AMD setup will be better. But remember, the AMD one needs better cooling before you can even dream of overclocking it, and a board with good power delivery. The G3258 can be OC'd on any Z97 board (They do cost a bit though), but it requires less cooling even when overclocked to a high level.

The overclocking is easy as hell. You only need to adjust 3 voltages, and the CPU multiplier, and you'll get some extra out of it even with stock cooling. Actually, you probably only need to adjust Vcore.

Of course, fine-tuning an overclock for maximal performance, or minimum temps always takes a long time, no matter what you're overclocking, but a quick and dirty OC won't take you longer than 30 minutes + stress testing.
 
Thanks for the replies chaps.

My main thinking was that if I go Intel then with a socket 1150 the cpu can be upgraded again in the future. Advantage with the AMD setup is that it'll work fine with an 1800MHZ 8GB kit that I already have spare. Or will have after getting myself a 16GB kit :)

Have an older GPU that can go in. Sapphire HD 4870, should be fine for UT, movies, music vids on youtube etc.

So any Z97 will work, that's fine, can do that.

Mind me asking which voltages I'll need to adjust, aren't aiming for a very high clock, just around the 4.2 - 4.4 GHZ mark. Quick and dirty is fine but I will stress test it.

(i used to have an overclocked system that i got from here ages ago, i never messed with it i just used it, so i don't know what to do)

Any suggestions for a good CPU heatsink?

Lastly, I've been looking for a PSU for it, do you know anything about the EVGA 430W or the EVGA 500W power supplies ? They are not that expensive and come with a 3 year warranty.

Should I ask in the PSU section of the forum ?
 
the only voltage you'll need is the cpu voltage really. pretty much anything will cool it. this would be the lowest i would go.

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i have a evga 750b and its fine so the 430 and 500w psu's should be fine also.

you will have to wait to find out what your cpu will do as they are very varied, one of mine does 4.8ghz on 1.3v ad the other did 4.6ghz on 1.3v, but there are people who have struggled to get them past 4.2ghz!
 
The pentium clocking is not about temperatures, so any of those coolers will be just fine. It's basically a cut-down haswell, so stress temps can go up to 70c in regular load (80+ in prime). A 400W or a 500W PSU will do you just fine, the pentium takes a maximum of 100W when heavily overclocked, with light clocks just 60-80W.

You pretty much just need to set CPU vid at 1.92v and then go with Vcore.

By the way, even the built-in GPU will do UT, movies, etc :) It's not "that" bad, even though it's quite bad. It matches a GT 525m mobility from nvidia on score. The GPU can be overclocked too for a minimal benefit, I managed to squeeze another 10% out of it which isn't really minimal though. Also memory speed affects the built-in GPU heavily. It does support memory past 1333mhz, just not officially. Even haswell supports "Just" 1600mhz, but in reality all the way to 3000mhz.
 
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