H97 able to overclock broadwell cpus?

[usmc21]

I ask since manufacturers of mobos are allowing haswell refresh/pentium g3258 to be overclocked on non z boards.

 

[MetalSparks]

Sadly, no, H97 Motherboards don't allow overclocking.

 

[usmc21]

Sadly, no, H97 Motherboards don't allow overclocking.

But H97's can overcock devils canyon- 4690k/4790k's and g3258's. Sigh

 

[McDuncun]

Okay maybe you should describe what "YOU" you mean with overclock...

 

[MetalSparks]

Huh, then I guess both the site from which I found that chart and I were a little inaccurate.

Doing a little more snooping around I discovered that several H97 chipset owners (and some H81, B75, H87) were able to overclock their processors (not just Devil's Canyon or g3258,) but only on select manufacturers' boards and only after a BIOS update. However, their maximum, stable clock speeds weren't nearly as high as Z97 chipset boards.

...so sure, H97 can overclock, but it depends on the manufacturer and the BIOS update.

 

[McDuncun]

Huh, then I guess both the site from which I found that chart and I were a little inaccurate.

Doing a little more snooping around I discovered that several H97 chipset owners (and some H81, B75, H87) were able to overclock their processors (not just Devil's Canyon or g3258,) but only on select manufacturers' boards and only after a BIOS update. However, their maximum, stable clock speeds weren't nearly as high as Z97 chipset boards.

...so sure, H97 can overclock, but it depends on the manufacturer and the BIOS update.

Thats fine but the rule of thumb is still that only the Z87/Z97 should be able to overclock and if you want to just get a Z-Series period...