help with b85m-itx motherboard

kitalor wrote: Weird that I could never find out whether this was even possible with this board

You can thank ASRock for that BIOS update you probably performed between Windows 8.1 and 10

https://www.google.com/search?num=20&q=g3258+microsoft+asrock

So from cold boot the OC is in place and reboot from windows disables it.....

kitalor wrote: Anybody able to comment on my settings or point me towards an oc methodology/guide that would make sense with this board?

At the very top of your UEFI pictures, I see non-Z OC set to Disabled. Why?

Using the XMP memory setting on your memory can cause other UEFI settings besides memory to be set. Some of those settings may not be visible to us. XMP is really a convenience feature, but has the added side affect of other setting being set that may not help us. Since you are stuck at 1400 anyway, disable XMP and set your memory manually.

Anybody able to comment on my settings or point me towards an oc methodology/guide that would make sense with this board?

kitalor wrote: Hi thanks for replying, I am using HWmonitor to monitor speed. basically if i save and boot from bios I get the overclock. Any other boot gets stock speeds. Sometimes it will revert without boot after a long period of time (like overnight) I am getting the adaptive core speeds with reasonable temps. I would be happy if it stayed. I am only altering the 'one click o.c' by lowering vcore from 1.3 to 1.215. The lowest it goes for prime 95 to run for half an hour (haven't had a chance to test longer at this stage). I'll double check the one click oc and see if it reverts but from memory i think it did the same thing(and more heat) With hindsight I can see it's the wrong combo but various marketing conned me into thinking all this would work ( I'm looking at you asrock non-z overclock hype) Had I known I would have either set my sights lower i.e just building a machine for torrenting and video and nothing else, cheaper cpu and not wasting money on an aftermarket cooler. Or higher with the z board etc...

The non-Z OC feature was offered by several motherboard manufactures. That feature broke the Intel rules of the chipset capabilities/features. Intel was not happy about that, and encouraged those manufactures to remove that capability in future BIOS updates. IIRC, Intel provided them with a microcode update that will permanently defeat the non-Z OC BIOS trick.

Since you are using a UEFI/BIOS version that is well beyond the original 1.40 non-Z OC version, the behavior of your OC settings might be explained by all this.

Also, is the Pentium G3258 a 'K' type processor? By its name, no, by its OC capability it fits the definition of a 'K' processor, with one exception. It does not have Turbo boost. But try to OC one with Turbo disabled or no Turbo option.

A possible workaround for your problem is something you no longer use, A-Tuning.

A-Tuning will not change the settings in the UEFI/BIOS, but does change the same registers and data that creates an OC. That is done in the same way that the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility allows on the fly over clocking in the Windows environment.

If you can successfully set up your OC with A-Tuning, you then can configure it to run automatically when Windows boots. The OC settings will be applied every time you start the PC.

I mentioned the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, which all mother boards do not support. You could try to use it with your PC, but I don't know if it will work:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24075/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-Intel-XTU-