Intel B460 Motherboards Could Land With Overclocking Functionality

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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-b460-motherboards-could-land-with-overclocking-functionality

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VideoCardz has shared photographs of Maxsun's B460 iCraft Gaming Endless (MS-iCraft B460M) motherboard. More importantly, the leaked marketing materials suggest that Intel might enable overclocking on the upcoming B460 motherboards.

Out of the two chipmakers, AMD has always been more generous towards overclocking as the company enables the feature from the premium X-series chipsets all the way down to the A-series chipsets. Intel, on the other hand, only allows overclocking on the Z-series platform, which typically commands a hefty price tag. However, Intel can potentially replant its posture on overclocking with the new wave of 400-series motherboards for 10th Generation Comet Lake-S processors. Maxsun's motherboard appears to support that theory.

The B460 iCraft Gaming Endless seemingly features three little, intriguing buttons on the rear panel. They are labeled with "L," "C," and a lightning bolt symbol. We are unsure what they do

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 The short description, which contains a bit of marketing fluff, points to speeding up the processor with a single click. This could be a gimmick or an indication that B460 motherboards might have some level of overclocking.

 

Still not going to buy an intel CPU

[Master Disaster]

Intel are running scared. Its kind of amazing how many things that used to be impossible suddenly become possible when you've got competition.

[Windows9]

Just now, huilun02 said:

Never heard of Maxsun befor

Ive seen some RAM from them

[Windows9]

1 minute ago, huilun02 said:

But this... could be a scam by a brand that is relatively unheard of

They sell motherboard RAM and SSDs on aliexpress

[Jurrunio]

But then the CPUs could be mostly locked still

[porina]

So far I've seen Gigabyte, Biostar and Asus hint at something "big" happening on Thursday. Guess we'll find out then.

 

Also on overclocking, there's different levels of it. On Intel side, TDP isn't exactly enforced so not considered an overclock, and does not affect warranty if you modify the system limit. To do the same with AMD's equivalent PBO is considered a warranty voiding overclock to the best of my understanding, although I'm not 100% on that. The fully unlock overclocking is also of limited value on AMD side since there is so little headroom you can only get by essentially choosing not to be stable in all situations. Intel might be relaxing as they seem to be following in that respect, with each release getting closer to their limits than historically.

 

16 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Intel are running scared. Its kind of amazing how many things that used to be impossible suddenly become possible when you've got competition.

Did they ever say it was impossible? There's things they can do, and things they want to do. Now, they're doing things they have to do in response to AMD.

 

[Arika]

20 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Regardless, would you entrust an overclocking enabled chip to a B series mobo by 'Maxsun'?

i wouldn't trust overclocking to single click "buttons" regardless of CPU manufacturer, chipset or MoBo manufacturer

[cj09beira]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Intel are running scared. Its kind of amazing how many things that used to be impossible suddenly become possible when you've got competition.

just an fyi it was possible with the b85 boards back in the core i 4XXX series, i had one such board running a 4.5Ghz 4690k

[5x5]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Intel are running scared. Its kind of amazing how many things that used to be impossible suddenly become possible when you've got competition.

I know right, next thing you know i5s will have hyper-threading, all CPUs will be unlocked and B460 will support half-decent I/O. Ludicrous I tell ya!

[Slottr]

-Moved to CPU's Motherboards and Memory-

 

While your post follows the posting guidelines, you just meet the bare requirements.

Please try harder

[Master Disaster]

7 hours ago, porina said:

Did they ever say it was impossible? There's things they can do, and things they want to do. Now, they're doing things they have to do in response to AMD.

Did I say they said it was? For us as consumers its (almost) always been impossible.

[porina]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Did I say they said it was? For us as consumers its (almost) always been impossible.

Sorry, I misread the intent behind your statement.

[Master Disaster]

21 minutes ago, porina said:

Sorry, I misread the intent behind your statement.

No worries, we all make mistakes