disolitude on 31 July 2013
| smbu2000 said: I thought overclocking was already limited to Z only boards? Wasn't that how it was on IB? I just wish you could OC with all CPUs. I just picked up an Asrock X79 Extreme6 along with a Xeon E5-2665 ES SB-EP CPU. It would be nice to crank up the speed, although having 8 cores/16 threads is handy. |
Overclocking was alwas associated with "Z" boards. However with Haswell Intel screwed up the Bios and allowed for all boards to overclock...equally. Benchmarking folks are getting same results with a 80 dollar "H" board as with a 200 dollar "overclocking optimized Z" boards.
The issue is that Intel is going to patch these boards so if you are currently overclocking, you will get a security update through Windows Update. IMO they can freely patch the existing baords before they ship a new batch but updating the boards already sold is rotten.
Otherwise, what are you using the Xeon for, out of curiosity?
