overclocking a xeon?

[Legolessed]

so i was looking at overclocking locked cpu's and i found it was possible as long as the can turbo boost. I have  xeon e3-1220 v1 and it can turbo boost up to 3.4 ghz. Is there any way to overclock it?

[xentropa]

Aren't the Frequency multipliers of Xeons locked?

[SLAYR]

No, it is locked.

 

EDIT: BCLK maybe depending on the board, but only like up to 105-107 so not even really worth the instability, and time.

[daniellearmouth]

Unless I am mistaken, Xeon processors have locked multipliers but their base clock can still be altered.

 

However, when Linus tried to do that, he ran into some pretty bad shenanigans and decided to not bother.

[CAPCOM UK]

Not all XEON's are locked.

 

LGA 1366 XEON chips can clock way above 4ghz with ease with a decent cooler, they are not multi unlocked but the motherboard will allow massive overclocks just like the Core i7's of the day.

 

Some evidence from TPU. 

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/attachments/untitled-png.77156/

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/share-your-cpuz-benchmarks.216765/page-19

 

 

[SLAYR]

4 minutes ago, CAPCOM UK said:

Not all XEON's are locked.

 

LGA 1366 XEON chips can clock way above 4ghz with ease with a decent cooler, they are not multi unlocked but the motherboard will allow massive overclocks just like the Core i7's of the day.

 

Some evidence from TPU. 

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/attachments/untitled-png.77156/

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/share-your-cpuz-benchmarks.216765/page-19

 

 

Locked means the multiplier is locked,

 

those just show BCLK overclocking as the bus speed is over twice what it is normally which is 99-100.