nforce4max wrote:First gen i5/i7 were the last of the fsb style overclocking for Intel and are a real blast to play with, just keep in mind that you want to turn off the turbo the closer you get to 4ghz and power consumption doubles between 3.5 and 3.8ghz depending on the sample to around 180w give or take. With good ram and if the board is good enough you can go higher but not to Sandy Bridge levels clock wise. Performance overall with a mild overclock is pretty much equal to current gen hardware minus a few features and higher power consumption.
For boards that didn't get sli support but have crossfire support there is a registry hack floating around on the net that fools the Nvidia drivers into thinking that it is on a X58 board and it even works with AMD chipsets. 😉
Just so you know, it's been discovered that the intel skylake chips have the PCIE bus and FSB unganged / detached, and (almost) all motherboard vendors at some point (near december 2014 / Jan 2015) had bios's released on their websites that allowed FSB overclocking again (just like the old chips), but were forced by intel to remove it from their websites in feb and march.
There's a community site that managed to capture a lot of the FSB-OC'able bioses and have shared em with the community.
Go check out hwbot.org for the world records, there's a i3-6100 (locked multiplier) record for 6.2 ghz on liquid nitrogen. I think All of the skylake cpu's can be overclocked, but I don't seem to find any records for the celerons.
Anyway see here: http://hwbot.org/submission/3093297_namegt_cp … 100_6287.11_mhz
FSB Overclocking is back. 😀
