Hi Guys,
I'm curious to know, how can you tell for certain that this board doesnt support overclocking? The latest March PC User mentions this in the Perfect PC article. I was looking through the BIOS and it appears as though I can play around with the CPU clock ratio, BCLK frequency, memory multipliers, and the voltages. I've also read the user manual and it too shows advanced menus for doing this. Admittedly, I have a non-K core i3-2130 CPU installed, so I didnt try to tinker. Cheers.
Zoran, it's not as simple as that.
Yes, you could try to overclock the CPU but how are you going to do it? I'd imagine given the multiplier of the 2130 is locked, you'll have a go at increasing the front-side bus (BCLK).
No good.
In previous chips, Intel kept the front-side bus and the CPU bus clocks separate, which meant you could raise the CPU clock speed via the bus clock without upsetting the components that run off the front-side bus clock.
In Sandy Bridge, they merged the two together. It means if you increase the CPU BCLK (the old front-side bus), you increase the base clock for everything else too, which will basically bugger everything up within moving the FSB clock about 2%.
Now if you're prepared to install a K-series chip (Core i5 2500K or i7 2600K) that has the CPU multiplier unlocked and you can get the H61-chipset to loosen up on the CPU multiplier settings, it should work.
But as far as we're aware, the only chipsets that are supposed to support it are the P67 and Z68. The H6x series aren't supposed to overclock.
Cheers, Darren.