Intel Core I3 4160 Overclockable?

[JaymanHD]

I was wondering whether I could overclock this chip or not to get a little bit more performance out of it. I don't know if the chip is locked or not but I wanted to ask the forum. Thanks for any replies!

 

[lucas_7_94]

Nop, you cant. its a locked CPU.

 

[InvalidError]

All non-K/X CPUs have locked multiplier, except for the Pentium G3258 "25th Anniversary" edition.

Skylake CPUs can be overclocked by a significant amount through base clock modification since the CPU/RAM has a separate base clock from IOs. In older Intel CPUs though, there is only one reference clock for everything and USB/PCIe does not overclock by more than about 5%, making BCLK overclocking largely pointless

 

[utroz]

It can be overclocked with certain boards but it can cause a bunch of issues as Intel really doesn't want non K cpu's overclocked. If you want to overclock get a K cpu and a Z series chipset on your motherboard.

 

[JaymanHD]

I have an msi intel extreme tuning utility that supposedly can unlock my cpu. It has a button that has lock or unlock next to the multiplier. Does it sound legit? I got the thing from my motherboard utility section on the driver disc.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0GbRkPXmaqTMnRsblBSZktKN3M
If you want a screenshot...

 

[utroz]

Press it and see what happens, my guess is that is will either do nothing or possibly unlock the baseclock or let you tweak the multiplier within the turbo boost limits. Your cpu is not a K version so it will definitely not unlock all the multipliers.

 

[JaymanHD]

Press it and see what happens, my guess is that is will either do nothing or possibly unlock the baseclock or let you tweak the multiplier within the turbo boost limits. Your cpu in not a K version so it will definitely not unlock all the multipliers.

Ok I will give it a try.