asrock h97m anniversary overclocking help?

[HiDood]

I have an asrock h97m that i want to overclock. i saved some money and going to invest on some new gear. my cpu is the i5 4460. it is locked but i will be overclocking fsb.
but can i do it? and how can i do it?
system specs:
motherboard: asrock h97m anniversary
ram: corsair value select
graphics card: gtx 970
psu corsair 550w psu (will be changing it soon for ocing)
cooling:3 (going to buy another one) case fans, stock cooler(going to buy a liquid one pretty soon)
do you think i can do it?

 

[Swordkd]

I was under the impression that the newer Intel chipsets got rid of the ability to change the FSB unless it was a "z" chipset.

 

[i7Baby]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150

For some CPUs (not the i5 4460) you can overclcok the CPU. And you can overclock GPUs. But that's it.

 

[Swordkd]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150

For some CPUs (not the i5 4460) you can overclcok the CPU. And you can overclock GPUs. But that's it.

That link is absolutely irrelevant.

 

[synphul]

You might be able to raise the base clock (bclk) frequency but not by much. Not enough to be worthwhile, it quickly becomes unstable. Usually it's a base clock of 100mhz x the cpu multiplier which is locked both on h97 boards and non k cpu's. That's the reason for getting a z series motherboard and k series cpu, to get access to the unlocked multiplier. The 4460 has a base speed of 3.2ghz so a base clock of 100mhz x 32 multiplier (3200mhz). If you raise the base clock to 103mhz, you'll get 3.29ghz, if you raise it to 104 you'll get 3.32ghz. Usually you'll be lucky to get to 104, maybe 105 in extreme cases without crashing the system. Baseclock's are pretty touchy. Not really worth the hassle to get .1ghz.

My suggestion, if you want to overclock a cpu then look into a k series with a z series motherboard that has the options for adjusting these things in the bios, a cpu that's not locked from the factory and vrm's that can handle the additional voltage. Today's cpus most of the overclocking is done by the multiplier and upping the vcore (core voltage) for stability. Instead of gaining .1ghz, you could raise the multiplier of a 4690k from x35 to x42 or x44 leaving the touchy bclck alone at 100mhz and go from 3.5ghz to 4.2 or 4.4ghz.

 

[CTurbo]

Do not bother. Overclocking via fsb is not worth the hassle. Even if you did manage to get the fsb to 105mhz, there would be exactly ZERO difference in performance. Raising the fsb in any way puts an unbelievable amount of stress on every single component in your system.

 

[HiDood]

huh, i guess i will wait untill this cpu lags. after all, the games im playing doesn't really rely on cpus (but graphics) and i am basically ocing for fun, and it sounds cool if i tell me friends its overclocked.

 

[i7Baby]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150

For some CPUs (not the i5 4460) you can overclcok the CPU. And you can overclock GPUs. But that's it.

That link is absolutely irrelevant.

Overclocking the fsb is a waste of time. You should only overclock per the wiki reference.