Asus is unlocking the ability to overclock CPUs on non Z-series motherboards

Okedokey

Okedokey

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Asus is unlocking the ability to overclock CPUs on non Z-series motherboards through the release of an updated BIOS.

The new UEFI BIOS releases for the H87, H97, B85 and H81 motherboards will enable support for overclocking with supported processors.

Asus states that it cannot guarantee all processors attached to the boards will allow for overclocking, but it did name check K-series Haswell and Haswell Refresh processors as well as the Pentium Anniversary Edition CPU as being compatible.
 
This is actually pretty awesome. Think, H81/87 board with Pentium Anniversary edition for $120, OC to 4.2GHz (an easy OC on the new Pentium), and get performance better then a i3 for much less.
 
YMMV with a cheap board. Neat concept but ASUS still is doing the OC THE BALLS OFF IT in default settings and under certain circumstances that throws a machine into a boot loop. I wish they would stop that.
 
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