overclock Base Clock Overclocking

[Overlandr]

If you turn up the base clock how high can you get the CPUs frequency usually? What impact does this have? I know turning up the base clock can break USB stuff, but not sure what else. Any help?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

6 minutes ago, Overlandr said:

If you turn up the base clock how high can you get the CPUs frequency usually? What impact does this have? I know turning up the base clock can break USB stuff, but not sure what else. Any help?

 

[tom_w141]

It overclocks the chipset and therefore the entire system: RAM, PCI-e lanes etc. Your overclock headroom will be much less than that of an unlocked cpu multiplier.

[tom_w141]

4 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

 

That is near useless lol. It barely describes what a "normal" overclock is and not what a BCLK overclock is at all. The difference is you will crash/become unstable sooner because BCLK overclocks overclock the entire system as I said above. But as intel lock their non "k" cpus to maximise profit then a BCLK overclock is the only option.

[Imakuni]

45 minutes ago, Overlandr said:

If you turn up the base clock how high can you get the CPUs frequency usually? What impact does this have? I know turning up the base clock can break USB stuff, but not sure what else. Any help?

Depending on the platform, that answer can swing a couple ways... for Kaby Lake, BCLK OCing on unlocked SKUs will do just fine, you can input whichever values you want. For locked ones, though, it's not happening, as Intel made sure to block such option.

[Overlandr]

What would happen if you were to overclock an old Xeon or something, if you turned down the multiplier on the RAM and then BCLK OCed?