{"id":56084,"date":"2013-07-08T14:27:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T12:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56084"},"modified":"2013-07-08T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T12:31:21","slug":"ecs-offers-overclocking-on-intel-h87-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56084-ecs-offers-overclocking-on-intel-h87-boards","title":{"rendered":"ECS offers overclocking on Intel H87 boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECS is the second manufacturer of Intel motherboards that has been able to unlock multiplier overclocking for Intel&#8217;s cheaper chipsets (the other being <a title=\"ASRock\u2019s H87 boards unlock multiplier overclocking for Intel K-series CPUs\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/55762-asrocks-h87-boards-unlock-multiplier-overclocking-for-intel-k-series-cpus.html\">ASRock<\/a>). Ordinarily one needs a Z87-based motherboard and a K-series processor to adjust the multiplier to facilitate higher overclocks.<\/p>\n<p>Previously ASRock was the only manufacturer exposing controls on their H87 motherboards to get the extra speed boosts that Z87 users would enjoy. You still need a rather expensive K-series chip; Intel has removed the ability to adjust Turbo Boost speeds on cheaper processors as well. Haswell is about as locked-down as you can possibly imagine.<\/p>\n<p>But a bug in the design of the H87, H81 and B85 chipsets has been exploited by ECS as well and they&#8217;ve opted to open the option on three motherboards in their lineup.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-56084 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56084-ecs-offers-overclocking-on-intel-h87-boards\/attachment\/h81-chipset-overclocking'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/H81-chipset-overclocking-96x68.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"H81 chipset overclocking\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-56087\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-56087'>\n\t\t\t\tH81 chipset overclocking\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56084-ecs-offers-overclocking-on-intel-h87-boards\/attachment\/b85-chipset-overclocking'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/B85-chipset-overclocking-96x68.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"B85 chipset overclocking\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-56086\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-56086'>\n\t\t\t\tB85 chipset overclocking\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56084-ecs-offers-overclocking-on-intel-h87-boards\/attachment\/h87-chipset-overclocking'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/H87-chipset-overclocking-96x68.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-56088\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-56088'>\n\t\t\t\tH87 chipset overclocking\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The degree to which you can overclock varies according to how many VRM phases the board has. The ECS H81H3-A3 is only able to clock up the Core i7-4770K on all cores to 4.5GHz, 600MHz higher than the chip&#8217;s default Turbo Boost speed. That gets improved to 4.8GHz on the B85H3-M4 and the H87H3-M4.<\/p>\n<p>The motherboards capable of this are designated by the &#8220;H3&#8221; in their model name and will be advertised slightly differently. You can also expect them to retail a little higher on the market than their competitors which is a great win for ECS, because this is effectively a BIOS hack anyway. For now, it looks like ASRock and ECS are the brands of choice if you&#8217;re on a tight budget and want some overclocking options. This is sure to upset the market when it comes to everyone assembling their buyer&#8217;s guides next month.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Breaking Limitations! CPU OC on ECS H87, B85, and H81 Motherboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcper.com\/news\/General-Tech\/Breaking-Limitations-CPU-OC-ECS-H87-B85-and-H81-Motherboards\" target=\"_blank\">PC Perspective<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Hardware news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56042-sa-price-roundup-five-budget-gaming-mice-compared.html\">Price roundup: Five budget gaming mice compared<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/55966-sa-gaming-keyboard-price-roundup-backlighting-on-the-cheap.html\">SA gaming keyboard price roundup: backlighting on the cheap<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/55776-5-geforce-gtx760-cards-you-should-be-looking-out-for.html\">5 Geforce GTX760 cards you should be looking out for<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also exposes multiplier-controlled overclocking on B85 and H81 motherboards through Non-Z OC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":56085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,9646,10615,10614,10616,10172,1727,9887,10617,9886,9693,6205],"class_list":["post-56084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-ecs","tag-ecs-b85h3-m4","tag-ecs-h81h3-a3","tag-ecs-h87h3-m4","tag-haswell","tag-intel","tag-intel-b85","tag-intel-h81","tag-intel-h87","tag-lga1150","tag-overclocking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56090,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions\/56090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}