(09-21-2016, 08:53 AM)Bluescreendeath Wrote: 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
The thing is, that not every H81 mobo is manufactured the same way; most of them use high-quality materials, others do not. And that makes influence on how good a mobo can perform.
Apart from other circumstances, of course.
Rig 1: Windows 10 Home | AMD A6-1450 @ 600/1000/1400 MHz | AMD Radeon HD Graphics 8250 | 4GB RAM | HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11.
Rig 2: Windows 10 Pro | Intel Core i7-2640M @ 780/2800/3500 MHz | Intel HD 3000 Mobile | 8GB RAM | Dell Latitude 6320.