On most motherboards you can't reach the boost clock written on the box. The handful which can seem to be more an exception than the rule, and even most of the

On most motherboards you can't reach the boost clock written on the box. The handful which can seem to be more an exception than the rule, and even most of the motherboards specifically designed for the current generation of AMD CPUs can't do it. The ones which can are generally quite expensive, though not all of the expensive boards achieve this - in fact, some of them seem to be worse than their cheaper counterparts from the same manufacturer!