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Overclocking with Asus B250M-basalt

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Intel's non Z motherboards never support overclocking. It just means it can run it, not overclock it

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Hello everyone

 

I'm wondering if anyone can advise me about overclocking the CPU (i.e. a core i7-6700K) on an Asus B250M-basalt MB (BIOS version 1206). I bought the board secondhand, so I don't have the manual, and for whatever reason information and support online seems non-existent.. Does this MB support overclocking? Has anyone overclocked on it before?

 

The offical CPU support list (and other MB info) can be found here:

https://www.asus.com/supportonly/B250M-BASALT/HelpDesk_CPU/

 

If an overclockable CPU (I'm considering buying a i7-6700K) is in the support list, does that mean the MB supports overclocking it or just running it?

 

Many thanks to anyone who can help!

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You could see if there is a bios that still supports BLCK overclocking, but that is not conventional overclocking (Which - as said above - is not possible).

 

It is also somewhat unstable, since I don't think you can increase voltage..

 

I wouldn't bother with that, to be honest.

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11 minutes ago, Minibois said:

You could see if there is a bios that still supports BLCK overclocking,

generally BCLK is a Z series exclusive feature as well, so a Z390 motherboard and an 8700 would be able to OC, but not a B360 board and an 8700K.

 

also, @Triarius a B250 motherboard does NOT support an i7 8700k, 200 series chipsets only support 6XXX and 7XXX processors. If you want an i7 8700, get a 300 series chipset like a B360 motherboard or H370. If you want to OC, get an i7 8700K and Z370 motherboard.

thanks to my tiny resolution I'm currently using I saw the 6 as an 8

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