do i need z97 to overclock GPU ?

[natelliot123]

i m buying h97 or b85 mobo with xeon e3 1246 and saphire tri-x r9 290,

[Butterfish]

No i dont believe so. You need adequate wattage on your PSU though..  

[flibberdipper]

Nope, just the amount of power you can deliver to the card, the card's ability to dissipate the heat, and how much your GPU will actually overclock.

[Rorgash]

only cpu needs a OC ready mobo

[natelliot123]

thank you for the reply guys

[Leonard]

i m buying h97 or b85 mobo with xeon e3 1246 and saphire tri-x r9 290,

No you don't be good god that is a odd combination of GPU and CPU. I also hope you know which xeon e3 1246 you are purchasing. There is one for socket 1155 and one for socket 1150.

[natelliot123]

No you don't be good god that is a odd combination of GPU and CPU. I also hope you know which xeon e3 1246 you are purchasing. There is one for socket 1155 and one for socket 1150.

why ?whats wrong?i am plannning to buy this one ----http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1246+v3+%40+3.50GHz

 

well if u consider the price     Xeon E3 1246 v3 + h97 board == core I5 4690K + z97 board + cooler,

 

so i thought 8 threads are better than 4. Is there anything i should know before purchase???

[Leonard]

why ?whats wrong?i am plannning to buy this one ----http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1246+v3+%40+3.50GHz

 

well if u consider the price     Xeon E3 1246 v3 + h97 board == core I5 4690K + z97 board + cooler,

 

so i thought 8 threads are better than 4. Is there anything i should know before purchase???

I never siad anything was wrong as such just that it is an odd combination of CPU + GPU. You want to OC the GPU and it is normal for and OCed GPU to be accompanied by an OCed CPU. 

 

I also got to tell you to do some research on the 290 and down-clocking. I was going to get a sapphire 290 myself but the Vapor-X one and i was turned away from all the problems i saw. Not saying you will get problems but i am just saying is all.

[Tda62]

I dont thonk so

[natelliot123]

I never siad anything was wrong as such just that it is an odd combination of CPU + GPU. You want to OC the GPU and it is normal for and OCed GPU to be accompanied by an OCed CPU. 

 

I also got to tell you to do some research on the 290 and down-clocking. I was going to get a sapphire 290 myself but the Vapor-X one and i was turned away from all the problems i saw. Not saying you will get problems but i am just saying is all.

what were the problems??? sorry for the late reply

[Leonard]

what were the problems??? sorry for the late reply

All of the 290s have this down clocking problem and it seems that it is a problem with some of the GPU BIOS. The Spphaire Tri-x has the problem but on windows8 and it has something to do with the UEFI capability of the GPU and Gigabyte's 290 just has problems as long as your GPU has the L1 BIOS but the BIOS update Gigabyte gave is suppose to fix the throttling problem. I just got scared and decided to go Nvidia but i really wanted the 290 for the price.