is it over-clockable?
1592666
Most cards are to some degree. AMD has that feature in their Catalyst software suite.
1592667
With the DDR3 onboard clocked at 1800mhz effective. And run with a core clock speed of 1000mhz.
1708958
Sorry,man, didn't calculate it. But I have a 600w PSU with this R7 4 HD an external USB3 hub (with 2 joypads, wifi and 3 external HD), additional audio card and never have a problem. I never tried to overclock it.
1053323
How do we tell if it is the correct processor and what do we do if we don't get it?
964262
Over locked it will consume about 400 watts so a 500 watt PSU is sufficient unless you never want to over clock but I would rather have too many watts than one not enough.
1349280
Yes, very much so. The K at the end of the product number is Intel's way of signaling this. I run mine at 4.6GHZ for hours on end. Very easy to overclock. I did find and odd thing with the "enhanced speed step" used on this chip with my X79 Mobo and ASUS X79 Deluxe. Enhanced speed step came "enabled". I was getting really poor performance with parallel processing using all four cores at max demand. This was strange, it was slower then my old laptop. I then switched off enhanced speed step and it flew like crazy. It left my laptop in the dust. I now keep enhanced speed step set to "auto" or "off". Many people say speed step does not matter - enhanced speed step on this setup does make a huge difference, if you don't mind paying for the electric to run it.
577284
Any modern day motherboard (Including the M5A97 r2) is not a determining factor when overclocking. What determines the overclock-ability is the processor and the cooling solution (ex. Water cooling or air cooled) I used this board and an AMD FX-4350 with a base clockspeed of 4.2ghz and was able to achieve 5.1 at 50 degrees C. while idle and 58 C while under load. As a basic answer to your question this board will handle overclocking very well just make sure that you are using an FX series or unlocked processor and I would recommend watercooling it.
465777
Over clocking. RAM with higher frequency will provide higher performance, while you may not feel it. It is very easy to setup the OC mode (with the build-in XMP profile of the RAM) of RAM in the bios. But the RAM will also works fine if you don't know or want to setup it.
254337
To the best of my knowlesdge, yes. It can be overclocked. I have not done this because running stock is fine for what I do. Just make sure you take into account the extrea cooling required...
699861
Yes. It can easily be overclocked to 100hz. HOWEVER, do it at your own risk.
1196830
I have not over clocked mine, but it is a dual bios, one of the bios you can not change, the other you can mess with it all you want. So if you tweak it too much and do some setting that makes it not want to work, you flip a switch on the card to the factory bios and your back in action.
1045469
Yes**) Officially 10600 (1333MHz) RAM is not supported by this chipset, but empirically it always is. Mtherbrd's overclocking capabilities are rly awesome and most likely u will have this mem running @ native clocks in no time. On the other hand, u may just set it's clock to 800/1066MHz (PC6400) and have it run with lower timings but guranteed stable without overclock of CPU and without any visible effect to your system producivity.
2087880
Yes I believe it would be. This is a very reliable product and I have overclocked my chip w/out issues.
1349281
My understanding is yes ....I put this CPU in computer I built for my son ..... he has not tried overclocking it...
589677
Do not recommend any kind of overclocking on this motherboard. It is good for basic use.
2037890
I am not sure. I have not tried, however I know that the newer cards cannot be unlocked, and this was bought brand new mid February, so doubt that it can to be honest. It can get overclocked.Hope this helps!
1648035
Yup. If you have no experience, it comes with some software that will automatically overclock up to 4.6GHz it for you, if you want to go higher you would have to do it manually through the software or bios.
2093684
Can you? Yes. Should you? No. As Andrew Agustin mentioned, this is a processor meant for energy savings (think of a school, library, or office setting). I use it to power a small file server and though it runs just fine, if I use it as a regular desktop and try to browse the internet while streaming music it will shoot to around or over 50% utilization (idle runs at 10-20%). The OS installed is Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Center (thanks to an academic license, which is just plain idiotic to give away as that OS retails for around $1,000 easy).