Difference b/w 450 and x470 for over clock?

[jaysouza557025]

hello. I was wondering what the difference is between a 450 and an x470 mobo for over clocking. I am running a 2700x cpu.

 

[drea.drechsler]

hello. I was wondering what the difference is between a 450 and an x470 mobo for over clocking. I am running a 2700x cpu.

The advantage of the X470 chipset itself is mainly that it has more PCIE lanes available and allows to SLI Nvidia hardware. That comes at a premium, though, so it also is found on premium motherboards.

Premium motherboards also have the strongest VRM's that can better sustain all-core overclocks for 8 core chips. How effective that is for gaming is questionable, however, as very few games use more than two cores heavily and if left to it's own devices a 2700X will boost two cores (4 threads) higher than an all-core overclock on conventional cooling. A B450 chipset board will do that just as well as an X470 chipset board.

But for productivity application like rendering, video editing and/or encoding an 8 core running with an all-core overclock does help and an X470 chipset motherboad with a stronger VRM helps assure it won't overheat and crash in the middle of it.