Zen has no iGPU ^^^^^
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Its 8Pack saying you need these £250 boards to get more than a couple 100 Mhz OC out of them, not me, he's the expert.
@CAT i don't see what Bulldozer has to do with Zen, Bulldozer sucked up a huge amount of power and they worked on most boards, even cheap'n cheerful boards, Zen is supposed to be half the power.
Turn two of the cores off and try again............
What has IGP could do with it?? The reference VRM design for AM4 is 6 phase - surely you knew that??
BTW,I remembered the Asus ones were a 220W capable 6+2 phase VRMA(oops).
Cheap and cheerful motherboards couldn't overclock an FX8350 - dude seriously look at all the threads people complaining of throttling on motherboards even on here just running them at stock.
Look at the throttling issues Gigabyte AM3+ motherboards had which Asus ones didn't have??
You needed a fairly decent 970 motherboards at the beginning to run them - some of the cheaper ones like from MSI had VRM burn outs as they underspecced the VRMs and many of the lower specced boards lacked VRM cooling. It took a while for one 760G based board to come out which could run an FX8300 series CPU fine,but it went through like a 1000 versions before we had a good one. The same with the lower end 970 ones,they could have issues and it took a while and many versions for them to be release good ones.
This is because they plonked in the same VRM designs as some 770 motherboards which had no cooling.
This is why for any of my mates who wanted to overclock safely,I specced £70+ 970 motherboards even with an FX6300 and they have lasted years. One of my mates got one of those earlier Gigabyte ones with the throttling issue(despite it being 8+2 phase) and it did eventually die last year,but it was horrible when overclocking.
The Asus ones are still going strong and overclocked better.