What overclock speeds does it support? Anything over 1600 mhz ram? I was looking for something faster to clock the 4670K cpu to 4.5 gigs.
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This board supports up to 3000mhz DDR3. The cpu overclocking ability can vary widely. What you will be able to achieve for an overclock is determined more by the type and luck of the draw of the CPU itself as well as the CPU cooling solution used. The mainboard quality can impact this but plays a lesser role.
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As said, it really depends, particularly on how long and hard you are running the chip. You could almost certainly get it to 4.3 GHz or greater with the stock cooler in a stable manner but beyond that it depends. If you were to run it in short bursts, you could overclock it higher, but running it under heavy load at a very high clock rate (such as with test/benchmark programs) would overwhelm the cooler within minutes.
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I've overclocked 2 of these processors the first would do 4.6 and the second will do 4.7 with vcore at a max of 1.4 under full load. Your results might be better or worse, I'm using custom watercooling to keep temps under 70c and an Asus Rampage IV Black.
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This board is not really meant for anything besides getting an i7-3770k and knowing advanced overclocking to achieve a frequency higher than 4.7GHZ... otherwise, you're better off saving a lot of money and buying the standard 1155 Pro (blue) board which will automatically clock a 3770k to 4.6GHZ without any effort. Of course with overclocking, you will want the best cooler whether it be an all in one liquid loop/(full liquid system) or a huge heatsink with fans. No offence, but you should really just buy a cheaper ASUS 1155 board if you don't understand why you would get liquid cooling over a fan. It's not the board, it's what the board is meant to do to the CPU. Otherwise you're throwing money away. This board is not really meant for anything besides getting an i7-3770k and knowing advanced overclocking to achieve a frequency higher than 4.7GHZ... otherwise, you're better off saving a lot of money and buying the standard 1155 Pro (blue) board which will automatically clock a 3770k to 4.6GHZ without any effort. Of course with overclocking, you will want the best cooler whether it be an all in one liquid loop/(full liquid system) or a huge heatsink with fans. No offence, but you should really just buy a cheaper ASUS 1155 board if you don't understand why you would get liquid cooling over... » Read More This board is not really meant for anything besides getting an i7-3770k and knowing advanced overclocking to achieve a frequency higher than 4.7GHZ... otherwise, you're better off saving a lot of money and buying the standard 1155 Pro (blue) board which will automatically clock a 3770k to 4.6GHZ without any effort. Of course with overclocking, you will want the best cooler whether it be an all in one liquid loop/(full liquid system) or a huge heatsink with fans. No offence, but you should really just buy a cheaper ASUS 1155 board if you don't understand why you would get liquid cooling over a fan. It's not the board, it's what the board is meant to do to the CPU. Otherwise you're throwing money away. « Show Less
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I recieved my UD3 May 15th 2012. It was a rev 1.1 with a F4 BIOS. That is the minimum for FX support. All the boards that come out now should be at that or above. I would say buy it. Very nice board. I run a FX-8150 OC'd to 4.2 at 44.8C under load.Good luck and have fun.Just remember: You never finish building your computer...you just run out of money.Update: August 2014: I just bought another for a Livingroom HTPC and it is Rev 4.0 with the latest BIOS for the Rev 4 and it is F2. I plugged in an old FX 8150 and it works great.
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First, your bios has to have an option to unlock cores. Then, you set to desired clock (if u wish). Personally, I didnt go further than 4.2 while i tested. In reality, however, I discovered that overclocking mostly adding heat, increases noise amd power consumption without significant performance achievement. I dont think you calculating live planetary orbits, thereof, you got already good CPU so just have some memory, SSD and good video card. Enjoy your gaming
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Mine works great with it and I have overclocked. The board is a beast and I have had nothing but a positive experience with it.
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I bought the 3.4 ghz chip. Installed and when system boots I get an error that the current chip isn't compatible. If I continue the PC runs and faster. Think the problem is that the chip 3.4 ghz is dual CPU. E520 bios doesn't support a dual CPU chip. Just my thoughts.
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Yes, I can confirm the above specs on this memory. It's the only reason I paid so much for this stuff. Many memory claim to have specs like this, but this one actually delivered. On my Asus motherboard, some other memory, when put into XMP memory mode would give me a message that it failed to "Overclock". But this one has never given me that message. All the memory testing utilities show the voltage and timings to be these specs. It's the real deal. Enjoy.
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I'm currently Using this Processor on a LGA 1150 socket, Z97 motherboard. I have not been able to Overclock using the wizard without the computer Crashing the GPU (GTX 660) I have not tried to overclock manually. I can say that the fan that comes with it does a decent job and can be used for running High Quality games without overclocking (WatchDogs looks great, it has it's own problems, Tomb Raider works great on Max, Skyrim looks great too, But I do have 32gigs of memory as well) So, Yes. And Overclocking isn't needed so far, I can't find a game I want to play that can challenge this processor even at it's out-of-box speed.
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1600. While you 'may' be able to overclock, there is nothing stopping a 1600mghz chip from running faster that 1600 if you are successful. On the other hand, you can pay a lot more for 'certified' RAM faster than 1600 - but doesn't mean the system will be stable because you paid for faster RAM. I say 1600 because this is the base for i7-3930K and because 1600 was fastest I could get mine to go (without crashing) on both ASUS and Intel motherboards.
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The biggest improvement is in the TIM (thermal interface material) which will improve temp's, resulting in a better overclock. Many enthusiast replaced the TIM on the 4670K's and lowered their temps by 10-20*C. I haven't seen any benchmarks published but I would be surprised if there's more than 5% improvement on any of the test. Also, there is an improvement on the integrated graphics.
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I have this memory running on an ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z with an FX-8350, it runs at the full speed 2400MHz. No issues at all.
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It's a 2133 Mhz DDR3 Module, the motherboard is specified to support 1600 Mhz at max. but you can overclock it t max of 2800 Mhz.The voltage is OK.But be careful because, overclocking in not garanty. I already buy DDR Module which can be overclocked but a soon as I increase the frequency and voltage, the motherboard crash !!!I would say, buy a 1600 Mhz DDR3 Module, it will cost you less than this one and you are garanty it runs !!!
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Indeed it can. I have almost that exact setup except that I have the 4670k, but it's pretty much the same processor (just clocked a bit higher and unlocked for overclocking, but exact same socket).
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Well I have my 4770k at a solid 4.5 ghz overclock and I own a gtx 780 ti that's also overclocked to about 1.1 Ghz and that is just running fine without even consuming 3/4 of it so I feel you could do it but just depends how comfortable you are running your system almost reaching its Maxs on the psu
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Yes, I have it overclocked to 4.0GHz in my system and it runs great for video editing and rendering in addition to gaming, definitely worth the money.