Gigabyte H87-HD3 good for overclocking?

jonwhite · 2 Oct 2013 at 21:30

hi
interested in this motherboard, is this board any good for overclocking, looking for a value board that i can overclock
thanks

wazza300 · 2 Oct 2013 at 22:30

yh should be fine

pastymuncher · 3 Oct 2013 at 13:07

Can you even overclock on H87? I thought you needed Z87 to overclock? I know there was a "fix" to allow clocking on non Z series boards but the last i heard was that Intel was going to put a stop to that by issuing a "fix".

Jarrastafari · 3 Oct 2013 at 18:59

I'm trying to find out too OP; any news?

wazza300 · 3 Oct 2013 at 19:59

yes you can overclock it !!!!!

ram speed can go no higher than 1600mhz though but cpu can go 5ghz+

Jarrastafari · 3 Oct 2013 at 20:23

Thanks Wazza, mines on it's way to me already

y'r a champion!

wazza300 · 3 Oct 2013 at 20:26

intel want to stop it by blocking the oc through bios's but its up to manufactures (asus/asrock/gigabyte ect) to implement it into the bios but they havn't so far

Jarrastafari · 4 Oct 2013 at 01:24

Good stuff

any tips for overclocking on this board?

Thanks, Dan.

wazza300 · 4 Oct 2013 at 01:30

no idea with haswell,they will be all similar settings though (gigabyte) b85/h87/z87

pastymuncher · 4 Oct 2013 at 10:07

Vcore, cpu input voltage, cache voltage, cpu multiplier and cache multiplier are all that need tweaking really. It sounds complicated, and it is at first, but once you learn to overclock all over again it's easy enough and there are plenty to help you on here. Temps will probably be the limiting factor.