Can my motherboard Over Clock a 4790K to 4.4 GHZ?

[john52200]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H97MPLUS/

seems like a high end board to me but I don't know about over clocking. I also learned the hard way that turbo boost 2.0 is nothing like over clocking.

As I understand that advertised 4.4 GHZ turbo boost on the 4790K only works when 1 or 2 cores are active and being used but its disabled and the CPU scales back down to 4GHZ when 4 cores are active.

But can my mainboard OC? if not why does it have all that fancy VRM heat sink, Digital VRM and 8 pin CPU power connector?

And if it can OC to 4.4 can it OC to 4.6 aswell? and if so will the life of this board be drastically reduced?

I want the board to last me about 20 years, so let me know how high it can OC before the lifespan shortens or if I should just leave it to run at 4 GHZ with stock cooler.

 

[woodson75]

I believe for overclocking you want the ASUS Z97M PLUS

 

[modernwar99]

Yes that mobo will probably support overclocking, but no way are you hitting 4.4GHz on the stock cooler without a good deal of thermal issues. Hits like 80C even on stock clocks. Overclocking will probably reduce the lifespan (not drastically as long as you don't go overboard on voltage as that board has only 4 VRMs), but the entire computer will be obsolete LONG before 20 years. Imagine trying to use a computer from the 1990s... just a tad bit slow for me, and dat windows 95 tho. I have never had a problem with OCed components dying (knock on wood old GTX 460) early.

 

[atomicWAR]

because mobo's manufacturers like to gouge the hands that feed them IMO. As i told you in email you can and may well be able to overclock with that board but it is not supported officially by Intel...Asus is supporting it so in likelihood it will work fine but my guess is your getting what you pay for (ie lower overall overclocks and lower life expectancy from said overclock when compared to a Z motherboard equivalent).

 

[atomicWAR]

http://www.techpowerup.com/202196/asus-enables-overclocking-on-h97-h87-b85-and-h81-series-motherboards.html


about asus supporting OC on your motherboard BTW

 

[atomicWAR]

And again you want a good after market cooler like the noctua NH-D14 or a closed loop liquid cooler.

 

[indiferenc]

over clocking is less dependant on your mobo than it is on your cpu. yes, you need a good mobo to do the job, but how far your going to OC and other things is determined by your cpu and your cooling set up. and every chip is different, so there is no way to tell how far you're going to get. and 20 years? unless you dont change a single part in your rig for that entire time, i doubt your going to be able to hold on to it for that long. and yes, over clocking your cpu does shorten its lifespan, but its generally not by much (relatively) unless you are OCing it really hard, with tons of extra voltage, and its at %100 load for long LONG periods of time.

 

[atomicWAR]

over clocking is less dependant on your mobo than it is on your cpu. yes, you need a good mobo to do the job, but how far your going to OC and other things is determined by your cpu and your cooling set up. and every chip is different, so there is no way to tell how far you're going to get. and 20 years? unless you dont change a single part in your rig for that entire time, i doubt your going to be able to hold on to it for that long. and yes, over clocking your cpu does shorten its lifespan, but its generally not by much (relatively) unless you are OCing it really hard, with tons of extra voltage, and its at %100 load for long LONG periods of time.

I agree. I didn't really go into specifics but when i talked about lower overclock do to motherboard...it's likely a small value (100-400mhz differance) as stated above the CPU itself the biggest determining factor in an overclock. I do stand by the lifespan of the overclock. You get what you pay for and you could see a difference in months or years...assuming you plan to keep your system 3 or more years. If less then it probably doesn't matter on longevity.