Set i5-4460 to 3.4Ghz with a B85-G43 Gaming?

[ArchangelPT]

GPU-Z says the CPU is working at 3.2,i was wondering if there's a way to set it to 3.4 with my motherboard since that was the advertised turbo speed.

 

[RCFProd]

Stock speed = 3.2 Ghz. W/ Turbo enabled (Only enabled when CPU is put to good use/load) = 3.4 Ghz.

Normal.

 

[Math Geek]

sorry but that cpu is locked and can;t be overclocked. the turbo speed is not for everyday use. it will auto-turbo to that speed when only a core or 2 is being used. it won't do it for all the cores except for short bursts as this is not what it is designed to do.

sorry but you're stuck with the stock speeds since it is a locked cpu.

 

[ArchangelPT]

Damn, guess i misunderstood a bit.

With this Mobo in mind what's the best CPU i could buy? Maybe i'll return it and get something better.

 

[Math Geek]

unless a bios update allows it to overclock it is not an overclocking board and will only stick to stock speeds. the little bit extra speed won't make any real difference anyway in day to day use. that extra 200 mhz is not worth all the headache. the 4460 is a solid cpu just not one designed to be overclocked.

the "k" models are the ones designed to be overclocked. so the 4690k or the newer z170 skylake cpu's like the 6600k or 6700k are the ones that can overclock with the right board.

 

[blazorthon]

Some of the B85 and H97 boards were had some overclocking capabilities, you can look at the BIOS versions online to see if any of them brought the features or not.

In the previous thread, these are the things I was referring to and how I wasn't sure if Haswell retained the features or not:

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/745153-Overclocking-Escapades-socket-LGA1155-Intel-Core-i5-2400

You can do some things to locked chips, but it can depend on the model. For example, i3s were never useful because they didn't have Turbo, so the best settings to mess with on locked LGA 115x chips isn't there like it is for locked i5s, i7s, and Xeons.

Of course, Skylake is now an exception to this with it being able to use the BCLK much more aggressively, but that needs a Z170 board to work ideally and the Skylake CPUs are still a little too expensive for this to be a good way to save money over Haswell.

The K edition CPUs use the exact same silicon as the locked models. They aren't designed any differently. Nehalem was an excellent example of this and Skylake is getting to be one again. The only reason locked chips can't overclock very well from Sandy through Haswell s because of greater integration of things like PCIe that didn't have their own clock domain.

 

[ArchangelPT]

What if i bought a i7-4790K, what could i do with this mobo?

 

[RCFProd]

But why not just keep the CPU and enjoy it as it is? It's a good processor.

 

[ArchangelPT]

But why not just keep the CPU and enjoy it as it is? It's a good processor.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/10554941?

The benchmark was a little disappointing, it's still holding back my video card a bit.

 

[RCFProd]

Well It's not so bad actually since not many other programs are this sensitive to clock speed like synthetic benchmark programs. And by the way. seems like you have Intel Turbo disabled, as your max clock speed doesn't go over 3.2 Ghz. If besides that you overclocked your GPU a bit you'll get 10.000 or something.

 

[ArchangelPT]

Well It's not so bad actually since not many other programs are this sensitive to clock speed like synthetic benchmark programs. And by the way. seems like you have Intel Turbo disabled, as your max clock speed doesn't go over 3.2 Ghz. If besides that you overclocked your GPU a bit you'll get 10.000 or something.

I disabled OC Genie and got it to 3.4

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/10565434?

Still disappointing to be honest, i was hoping to hit 10k. I guess i'll keep the 4460 though, if nothing else because i don't feel like taking the pc apart all over again