Motherboard overclocking

It can be, but it's not the greatest. I bought one of those a while back and ended up returning it DOA. The board that replaced it, a P5K Deluxe, is what my home server runs on now. (Q6600 @ 3.6 GHz)
 
No, the motherboard is not a component that you overclock. Are you referring to overclocking a processor using the P5K-SE?
 
I was under the impression you can overclock the CPU, and motherboard because you have to change the FSB setting on the motherboard (thru system bios or switch)to overclock the MB.
 
chrisfreez said:
I was under the impression you can overclock the CPU, and motherboard because you have to change the FSB setting on the motherboard (thru system bios or switch)to overclock the MB.
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The FSB is on the processor, not the motherboard. When you raise the FSB you also raise the RAM speed as well.
 
OMEGA I'm confused because I have read where the motherboard has to have the ability to be overclocked. Are you saying the motherboard does not matter? After all the motherboard is connected with the system Bios which is depend on the chipset I believe.

Could you explain in more detail?
 
The FSB is on the processor, not the motherboard.
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How come? FSB is what connects the CPU, RAM, PCI-E/AGP and southbridge, correct? Tehnically FSB runs through the northbridge which is on the motherboard.

OMEGA I'm confused because I have read where the motherboard has to have the ability to be overclocked. Are you saying the motherboard does not matter? After all the motherboard is connected with the system Bios which is depend on the chipset I believe.
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The motherboard does matter, but CPU is what you're actually OCing. Though, you're right, when you're doing a FSB OC you need to have a mobo that can handle the higher FSB, and also not all mobos come with voltage/freequency/whatnot controls that allow OCing. So yous, the mobo does need to have the ability to OC.
 
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