Question Odd motherboard choice for pre built system?

[kulharin]

I ordered a Sky Tech gaming PC from New Egg. I was a bit shocked that it came with an i7 12700k with a water cooler on an Asus 660 M A board, which doesn’t allow for overclocking. That seems silly or am I missing something?

 

[USAFRet]

I ordered a Sky Tech gaming PC from New Egg. I was a bit shocked that it came with an i7 12700k with a water cooler on an Asus 660 M A board, which doesn’t allow for overclocking. That seems silly or am I missing something?

This is why you check ALL the parts before clicking the Buy button.

Change what you don't like if possible, or buy something else.

 

[kulharin]

That information was not available in the ad

https://www.newegg.ca/skytech-st-azure2-0691-b-ne/p/N82E16883289338?Item=N82E16883289338

 

[Eximo]

Fairly typical. The average person buying a pre-built isn't likely to overclock or understand the difference between motherboard chipsets.

Regardless, the K chips do have higher clock speeds than their non-K counterparts, not like it won't still be very fast.

 

[USAFRet]

That information was not available in the ad

https://www.newegg.ca/skytech-st-azure2-0691-b-ne/p/N82E16883289338?Item=N82E16883289338

Thats one of the problems with prebuilts.

They hide/obfuscate the parts that people don't really pay attention to.

Motherboard model, PSU, etc.

Why did they do that?
$$$.

 

[kulharin]

Is there anything I could tweak in the bios that would be worthwhile ?

 

[USAFRet]

Is there anything I could tweak in the bios that would be worthwhile ?

Probably not.

 

[boju]

Asus 660 M A board, which doesn’t allow for overclocking.

Besides higher standard clock speeds K suffix processors offer, as said, x60 series chipset since 5xx series motherboards support memory overclocking (XMP).

 

[kulharin]

Yah I got G.skills V ram in the rig at 3200. I was able reduce timings a bit without changing the voltage and no issues with mem test. Still a bit annoyed as this CPU with liquid cooling could be OC'd substantially. Although might be for the best, the case seems extremely fickle to air flow harmonics creating off putting noise depending on how quick or slow the fans are spinning.

 

[kulharin]

I guess I could always go the other way and apply a negative voltage offset to go cooler n more efficient?

Does this motherboard have base frequency boost?

 

[doughillman]

I guess I could always go the other way and apply a negative voltage offset to go cooler n more efficient?

Does this motherboard have base frequency boost?

What did the motherboard manual say when you went to asus.com and downloaded it?

 

[kulharin]

No base frequency boost with this boatd, but the cpu handles prime tests with a minus 0.100 offset and stays stable n cool.