Xeon E3 1230 V2 Overclock

Not too sure how this works, but I heard you could OC this particular chip after giving it the turbo boost (3.7ghz) to about 4-4.1ghz, but only using an ASrock board.

Now I wanted to find out if only ASRock boards allow this function to oc the xeon chips beyond the turbo boost, or can any z77 board do it.

Ta.

 

You should be able to overclock to 3.9ghz(all cores) 4.1ghz(turbo) just by changing the multi and any z77 board should be able to do it

edit: just looked in to it and looks like im wrong, this may help give you an idea

 

Yeah that's what I was hoping for. I saw people posting about how they could hit 4-4.1ghz but there was no evidence of it anywhere and they only mentioned the ASRock boards at the time.

I'm actually planning on getting this chip and pairing it with my sniper m3 and was just trying to see if you could squeeze out more juice after the turbo boost, which looks like its possible.

Thanks for the link, definitely helped.

Edit: looks like when you go beyond the turbo boost, the OC only applies to 1 core?

 

I have overcloked a i5 3570 to about 4.5ghz, it was able to run at 4ghz(all cores) and 4.2(turbo or one core) just by changing the multi. I thought the e3-1230 v2 could do about the same but looks like I was wrong based on the link I posted before

 

I would imagine it would do the same but at a lower clocked speed 3.6-3.9(all cores) with adjustment of the BCLK. With your 4.5ghz, was that enabled over all cores or just the one?

 

just one core for 4.5 I could get about 4.3 with 4 cores and I was using a Asrock board

 

Ah ok thanks for that. One more thing. Is it true that only the ASRock boards have some special OC feature that enables a better/higher OC for locked multi cpu's?

 

I haven't tried a locked cpu with my Msi Mpower yet but as far as I know the isn't better then any other brand when using a lock cpu, Asrock z77 boards non-k oc feature which sets the max multi just by changing one setting in the bios

 

Ah okay thanks for all the info mate, massive help. I guess I can only get 3.5 on all cores before I'll have trouble according to how the turbo boost is set to the chips.