Motherboard's influence in overclocking CPU

Ranger07 · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:50

Does anyone know if a motherboard alters the overclocking characteristics of a cpu from a voltage point of view. For example could one mobo run a Q6600 @ 3.6 ghz @ 1.45v but a better board could maybe do it stable @ 1.3v ?

I've never tested the theory but i'd imagine this would be the case or am i talking nonsense ?

Cyber-Mav · 22 Mar 2008 at 02:47

depends on the boards vdrop and vdroop characteristics. a crap board with poor vdrop and a lot of vdroop will need more initial voltage set in the bios to counteract the voltage drops, a better board with multiple power phases for tighter regulation may see less voltage drop and droop, so you could set the figure lower in bios, but the end result may not be a whole lot different, both boards may reach the same clock as regards to voltages except the board with the better power regulation will minimise the voltage variations.

Ranger07 · 22 Mar 2008 at 06:57

Yeah, suppose its common sense that steadier voltage will get you a more stable overclock, cheers

helmutcheese · 22 Mar 2008 at 14:43

Lots, esp the FSB OC due to the Chipset and then Memory Controler.