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Yeah I have an older box running an i7-920 which is overclocked from 2.6 to 3.6ghz with the base clock. Sandy Bridge and newer get extremely unstable when you
by seabrookmx 9y ago
Yeah I have an older box running an i7-920 which is overclocked from 2.6 to 3.6ghz with the base clock.
Sandy Bridge and newer get extremely unstable when you toy with the base clock more than a few MHz though. You're basically stuck shelling out an extra few bucks for a "K" chip if you want to overclock on Intel now.
- floatboth 9y agoSkylake and newer have fixed this, they decoupled PCIe and stuff from BCLK. On Skylake you can actually do non-K (I ran a 6400 at up to 4.7GHz): https://overclocking.guide/category/intel-oc-guides/skylake-non-k-oc/ https://overclocking.guide/category/intel-oc-guides/skylake-... Of course on Kaby and later they closed the loophole...