H97 overclock

[noob at PC]

Can I overclock on a gigabyte GA-H97 wifi motherboard j have seen that on some h97 motherboards it's possible to overclock (CPU: Intel i5 4690k)

[HKZeroFive]

Are you talking about BCLK overclocking? Not advised since the OC will be tiny before it goes unstable.

 

Just get a Z97 motherboard.

[failblox]

The short answer is no, but technically you can. You can OC by adjusting the BCLK, which you generally leave at 100MHz when OCing. However I wouldn't touch this value unless you know what you're doing, and even if you do, don't adjust it by much otherwise you're gonna make your system unstable really fast. Many components on your motherboard are dependent on the BCLK, so by adjusting that you're also adjusting values for things like SATA ports, which you don't want to touch when OCing your CPU.

[Andrew Storlie]

Yes you can overclock on an h97, just not as stable as on a z97. I have a g3258 oc to 4.6ghz on a h97 itx bored for my media center.