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Question Does the motherboard and cpu chipset have to be the same?

cassian69

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Hello i have a dell t3500 with and i7 920 and i recently bought a rx 570 being ignorant and didnt research if i can overclock the cpu.
And i am thinking of getting a Xeon x5675 but my mobo chipset is x89 and the cpu is x58 does that matter?
and my socket is lga 1366