Overclocking potential with i7 9700KF, one 4 pin CPU mobo header.

[BigRecoiilz]

My friend has a very "budget motherboard" and it only has one 4 pin CPU header. Stock base clock is only 3.6GHz i believe. One 4 pin CPU mobo slot can handle up to approx. 150 watts so with that, what are some overclock settings for an i7 9700KF to get the most out of it?

[Somerandomtechyboi]

5 minutes ago, BigRecoiilz said:

My friend has a very "budget motherboard" and it only has one 4 pin CPU header.

Its prob not a z board so rip oc, maybe you can use throttlestop but its quite pointless when the boards vrm is gonna start burning on any sort of oc xD

 

6 minutes ago, BigRecoiilz said:

One 4 pin CPU mobo slot can handle up to approx. 150 watts

Thats the official spec, since its a spec you can actually draw more than what its designed for but ofc not reccomended cause cables or connectors can literally start melting but minor overspec like 175w i dont really see a problem with

[BigRecoiilz]

1 minute ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Its prob not a z board so rip oc, maybe you can use throttlestop but its quite pointless when the boards vrm is gonna start burning on any sort of oc xD

 

Thats the official spec, since its a spec you can actually draw more than what its designed for but ofc not reccomended cause cables or connectors can literally start melting but minor overspec like 175w i dont really see a problem with

Thanks for that info and I also just remembered that the 9700KF has intel turbo boost tech up to 4.9Ghz. Could the mobo handle that?

[Kilrah]

It will already do that by default within the limits of what it's capable of.