looking for a cheap X79 Motherboard that can overclock?

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Couldn't tell you but far as I know, all consumer X79 have overclocking features. Never used a Intel made motherboard, but it should be the same.
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X79 boards were never cheap to start with. They started at $270 to $600. Since it is old and not made anymore your best bet is ebay for a decent price.

I'm about to retire my x79 system here in a few months when the X299 comes out. Ebay might start to see a bunch of boards and CPUs from people like me who skipped the X99 platform.
 
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Doesn't look like it. The only thing for sale on eBay (US) for that price range is an Intel board for $175 USD (not overclockable). All others like from ASUS which are overclockable are insane prices. Here's a link to them all. Not sure what your offers are in GBR's eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l2632.R2.TR5.TRC2.A0.H0.XX79+motherboard.TRS0&_nkw=x79+motherboard&_sacat=175673

In my experience dealing with older chipset hardware, the CPU itself declines in value way faster than the motherboard that supports it. For example, I still have a nine year old Core 2 Duo (E8400) LGA 775 build. My ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard is selling on eBay for $85 USD (originally paid $130 for it in 2009). My G.SKILL DDR2 2x2GB 1066 memory is selling for $50 (paid that much originally). My E8400 chip is only selling for between $5-$10.

And depending on the rarity like an X79 motherboard, the prices can really go through the roof. Most are still holding onto their X79 builds due to the expense involved initially and they are still good performers.
 
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No. That's an Intel workstation motherboard as I stated in an eBay example in my previous reply in your duplicate post elsewhere (please don't do that). You need to find one from the likes of ASUS, MSI, or Gigabyte. Again, they are double your budget or more on eBay.

BTW: your question was answered in the first product review of your Amazon link:

"The bad: This board in theory does not support SLI, it does not support overclocking, or XMP."
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yes but he said in THEORY. it doesn't support SLI. hes just guessing. and he's edited it

"EDIT: Overclocking is in fact supported, but only by using the multiplier method, but that may be just my CPU (i7 3820, it can overclock but has a gimped multiplier)."
 
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yeah he said that he used the multiplier method because he had an i7 3820... but it should overclock a i7 3930K normally right? he said it supports overclocking but he had to use the multiplier method because his i7 3820 cant oc
 
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