You can overclock on B85 LGA1150!?

[8BitZ80]

I bought a little Pentium G3258 to play around with but my Asus Z87-C board refuses to POST. So, I threw it into a Gigabyte B85M-HD3 board and changed the multiplier and voltage for the hell of it.

I did NOT expect this:

Spoiler: Stock 3.2GHz

Spoiler: Overclocked 4.2GHz @ 1.300V

I will be a monkey's uncle!! All I did was change the multiplier, change the core voltage and hit save. I didn't change the BCLK as you can see.

Oh yeah, and I should also mention that I'm running the latest F12 bios from 2015. It's not an early bios or a hacked bios.

I thought it was Intel's corporate mission to lock these B85 boards down like Fort Knox??

EDIT: I tried a Core i3 4160 and can't overclock it, no surprises. So it's only unlocked chips like the G3258 that can be overclocked.

 

[evernessince]

I bought a little Pentium G3258 to play around with but my Asus Z87-C board refuses to POST. So, I threw it into a Gigabyte B85M-HD3 board and changed the multiplier and voltage for the hell of it.

I did NOT expect this:

Spoiler: Stock 3.2GHz

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Spoiler: Overclocked 4.2GHz @ 1.300V

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I will be a monkey's uncle!! All I did was change the multiplier, change the core voltage and hit save. I didn't change the BCLK as you can see.

Oh yeah, and I should also mention that I'm running the latest F12 bios from 2015. It's not an early bios or a hacked bios.

I thought it was Intel's corporate mission to lock these B85 boards down like Fort Knox??

EDIT: I tried a Core i3 4160 and can't overclock it, no surprises. So it's only unlocked chips like the G3258 that can be overclocked.

Yeah, it's a great value chip for overclocking. I managed to get similar results, only the BIOS I was working with at the time came with a 4.2 GHZ 1.30v profile. Worked out of the box. This was like 5 years ago though.

 

[jboydgolfer]

i have/had a couple H97M Pro boards & they could get a decent OC. its just the Z totally supports it, anything else is icing

 

[8BitZ80]

Yeah, it's a great value chip for overclocking. I managed to get similar results, only the BIOS I was working with at the time came with a 4.2 GHZ 1.30v profile. Worked out of the box. This was like 5 years ago though.

It seems like mine might go to 4.3GHz, but pushing to 4.4GHz at any voltage will just BSOD. Still, that's a nice overclock. I also can't enable XMP without getting a boot failure probably because my B85 board doesn't support 2400MHz memory.

i have/had a couple H97M Pro boards & they could get a decent OC. its just the Z totally supports it, anything else is icing

It's news to me. I guess you do still get the better VRMs and such with the Z boards, but I was always under the impression that they were completely locked down anyway.