(09-21-2016, 08:27 AM)DJBarry004 Wrote: You should have bought the Z87 mobo instead of the H81, from the beginning. It would have been easier for you. Overclocking on H81 is almost (if it isn´t completely) -a pain in the ass- compared with the Z87.
Sorry for the expression but that was the info I found during research.
EDIT: Take a look at this article, it explains better. http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1132-intel-haswell-chipset-comparison
1) Nah. It makes no sense to pair a $200 Z-motherboard with a budget $60 G3258 cpu (from Microcenter). It would make sense to get a Z motherboard if I was getting a quad-k series. The only reason why I'm upgrading my motherboard is to get USB 3.0 headers.
2) H81 overclocking is actually extremely easy if you're using certain motherboards that have it enabled. It takes like 10 seconds to overclock on my motherboard. I've seen stats of other folks getting the G3258 to 4.6GHz with my motherboard, so I know it's a cpu problem and not a motherboard problem. There is a long list here of all the non-Z motherboards that can overclock the G3258 - some of the H81 series do quite well:
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/what-motherboards-have-non-z-overclocking-enabled-for-pentium-3258.2389948/
3) Tomshardware did a review of overclocking the G3258 on cheap H81 motherboards - it did fine, and could overclock a G3258 to 4.4-4.5GHz at 1.275-1.3v.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-b81-cheap-overclocking,3888.html