Hello,
i've just recently build my own first PC and changed parts already once and am about to do so again... That's partially my fault, but also kinda the develepors, cause they don't list all the details in their specifications. Right now I have an GA-G170-Gaming K3 EU rev. 1.0 board with an i5-6600K on it. Now I changed from another chipset board, cause I didn't know at that time, that only Zxxx boards can overclock Intel CPUs (and I've also read that some others do as well, but didN#t get any prove or anything, again cause I just can't find those informations black on white on a trusted source!). So I've just to my current one just to realize, that it is NOT! possible to set the multiplicator as you wish, without boundries! No! You have to go strictly by Gigabyte's implemented presets! So right now my CPU's running at 4,4GHz, which isn not bad! But since it only got 5°C hotter under full usage, than with stock clock, I of course want to give it a little more! I'd go to six.
Now, that is not the only issue with particular or not particular board. Also I am unable to change the clock of the ram! So, what is nessecary to do that? I really can't find any infromation, that you need to have ANYTHING special to overclock the RAM! Nontheless, I just can't change the clock speed...
And here's the third and biggest one, which also is my fault, cause it says it in the specs and I was just too dumb to read properly... I want to go multi GPU some time later with the RX 480, sometimes when I feel that one card's not giving enough power anymore. NOW, I know multi GPU's bad, cause of many reasons, but that's the way I want to head you really won't convince me otherwise biggrin.gif. The simple problem is, that my board runs the second (now, here it comes!) PCI-E 16 LANES slot WITH 4 LANES! Why, that is just retarded, imo! You don't wanna sell a CrossFire board, which runs one of both PC-E slots with 1/4 of its bandwidth speed! And I misunderstood the litle remark, that stated that the card runs ONLY in PCI-Ex4 mode on the second slot with the card runs with PCI-Ex4 on the second slot, if the PCI-Ex1_3 (so the third PCI-E 1x slot, which is truely a 1x slot, even form factor based) is populated. When in reality the second PCI-E slot runs actually ONLY with 2x, when the PCI-E_3 slot is used! That sounds confusing to you, whixh may result of me, being not so clear here, but to put it simple: In a 2-Way-CrossFire configuration, the second PCI-E 16x form factor slot runs with a max bandwidth of 4x.
SOOOOO! Now I'm about to switch again, and I want it to be the last time! I'm lookingat this MSI Z170-A PRO board. IT HAS AAAAAALL I NEED! I am very certain! EXCEPT! The mentioned above!
SO: In clonclusion: tl; dr: How can I KNOW? FOR SURE! That this particulr board can OC my CPU, if it can OC my RAM and WHAT are the bandwidths of the PCI-E slots if both are used?
i've just recently build my own first PC and changed parts already once and am about to do so again... That's partially my fault, but also kinda the develepors, cause they don't list all the details in their specifications. Right now I have an GA-G170-Gaming K3 EU rev. 1.0 board with an i5-6600K on it. Now I changed from another chipset board, cause I didn't know at that time, that only Zxxx boards can overclock Intel CPUs (and I've also read that some others do as well, but didN#t get any prove or anything, again cause I just can't find those informations black on white on a trusted source!). So I've just to my current one just to realize, that it is NOT! possible to set the multiplicator as you wish, without boundries! No! You have to go strictly by Gigabyte's implemented presets! So right now my CPU's running at 4,4GHz, which isn not bad! But since it only got 5°C hotter under full usage, than with stock clock, I of course want to give it a little more! I'd go to six.
Now, that is not the only issue with particular or not particular board. Also I am unable to change the clock of the ram! So, what is nessecary to do that? I really can't find any infromation, that you need to have ANYTHING special to overclock the RAM! Nontheless, I just can't change the clock speed...
And here's the third and biggest one, which also is my fault, cause it says it in the specs and I was just too dumb to read properly... I want to go multi GPU some time later with the RX 480, sometimes when I feel that one card's not giving enough power anymore. NOW, I know multi GPU's bad, cause of many reasons, but that's the way I want to head you really won't convince me otherwise biggrin.gif. The simple problem is, that my board runs the second (now, here it comes!) PCI-E 16 LANES slot WITH 4 LANES! Why, that is just retarded, imo! You don't wanna sell a CrossFire board, which runs one of both PC-E slots with 1/4 of its bandwidth speed! And I misunderstood the litle remark, that stated that the card runs ONLY in PCI-Ex4 mode on the second slot with the card runs with PCI-Ex4 on the second slot, if the PCI-Ex1_3 (so the third PCI-E 1x slot, which is truely a 1x slot, even form factor based) is populated. When in reality the second PCI-E slot runs actually ONLY with 2x, when the PCI-E_3 slot is used! That sounds confusing to you, whixh may result of me, being not so clear here, but to put it simple: In a 2-Way-CrossFire configuration, the second PCI-E 16x form factor slot runs with a max bandwidth of 4x.
SOOOOO! Now I'm about to switch again, and I want it to be the last time! I'm lookingat this MSI Z170-A PRO board. IT HAS AAAAAALL I NEED! I am very certain! EXCEPT! The mentioned above!
SO: In clonclusion: tl; dr: How can I KNOW? FOR SURE! That this particulr board can OC my CPU, if it can OC my RAM and WHAT are the bandwidths of the PCI-E slots if both are used?