I'm stuck between going with the MSI board or a Z97 board as I was told that even if I buy a board such as the MSI H81M-P33 that it isn't guaranteed to support overclocking. They said that some work right out of the box, some need a BIOS update but some will never overclock. Is this true?
I Can get 3.8Ghz @ 1.150v stable
In Asrock H81M-VG4 R2.0
And 74c max in prime95 stress test
Intel stock cooler
And why i can't manage to get more than 4.0ghz even when the vcore increased to 1.25v it always bsod if i oced more than 4.0 ghz.
And sorry for my bad english
Gigabyte seems to limit voltage, the power electronics on the board might not be able to handle the power draw of a higher voltage higher clocked cpu, in that case it makes sense to limit voltage so people don't break the boards.
I've been very busy, but the way I verified the adustability of the multiplier was to manually set it to 40x and boot into Windows, CPU-Z did indeed report 4GHz. I may have some time tonight when it cools down to see if I can get into the upper 40's on the multiplier, though ambient temps in my garage work area are very high right now, even into the evening hours.
Edit: Only got 4.39GHz out of my combo, due to the voltage being limited to 1.2V. It never exceeded 70°C during Cinebench 11.5 even with high ambient temps.
Can you share your bios settings? as our boards are very similar.. maybe i'm doing something wrong..
ASRock H81M-ITX/Wifi (Mini-ITX) : See page 61 of the owners manual published May 2014 for reference to Non-Z overclock: http://download.asrock.com/manual/H81M-ITXWiFi.pdf)
Hi I'm trying to build an emulation PC and been recommended the following:
Silverstone Sugo Mini ITX - £27.66
German wellknown brand "be quiet"300W 80 plus SFX form factor - £43.56
Gigabyte Radeon R7 360 OC - £90.43
i7 4790k in disguise "Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition " - £50.78
Thermal Paste Arctic MX-4 - £5.28
Asrock Z97E with Japanese Platinum "Nichicon" Caps and top of the line onboard audio - £115.16
Corsair Memory Vengeance Blue 2x4GB DDR3 1600Mhz - £40.56
WD Red 1TB 2.5" NAS drive 7200rpm - £56.75
Total Cost : £430
Is there a better Motherboard that is overclockable but £100 or lower?
edit: btw will this case fit all the above in? https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-050-SR
Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition
Batch # 3412B733
Asus B85M-E/CSM
BIOS Version 2105 08/08/2014
Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 Pro HSF
800 - 4000MHz (8x - 40x)
VCore 1.075V
PNY GeForce 650 GTX 1GB DDR5 video card (Note: use of processor graphics substantially reduces overclocking potential)
See my post above (#230) for the Asus H81M-PLUS. The BIOS settings I used and the results I achieved were virtually identical with the same CPU for both motherboards.
To those who are having problems with these motherboards, one suggestion is to use a discrete video card, since processor graphics limit the overclocking potential. You can also try the settings I used, but I recommend setting the Vcore voltage to "Auto" at first to find a target voltage. In my case, the "Auto" VCore was 1.175V at 4.0GHz, but I was able to get stable overclocking results with a voltage that wasn't much higher than stock voltage (which varies depending on the individual processor). I tested it with Prime95 for 30 minutes.