Overclock your ASUS B85 & H87 with BIOS update

[ASUS@SG]

ASUS Brings Haswell Processor Overclocking to H87 and B85 Motherboards

The latest UEFI BIOS for its motherboards based on Intel® H87 and B85 chipsets unlocks previously inaccessible overclocking features for 4th generation Intel Core™ processors.
Before this update, the overclocking features of new Haswell ‘K Series’ processors could be enjoyed only with motherboards based on the Intel Z87 chipset. Now, however, performance enthusiasts can exploit the power of Haswell K Series processors using ASUS 8 Series motherboards like the ASUS H87M-PRO and B85-PRO.

Extra performance — no extra cost
The BIOS update is a free download for 10 ASUS motherboards — the H87-PRO, H87-PLUS, H87M-PRO, H87M-PLUS, H87M-E, H87I-PLUS, B85-PRO, B85-PLUS, B85M-E and B85M-G.

Once installed, the update enables frequency multiplier-based overclocking in one simple step for unlocked Intel K Series processors such as the Intel Core i7-4770K and Core i5 4670K. The BIOS also includes several features to make life simpler for PC users. A ‘Last Modified’ log makes it easy to determine when and how a particular setting was changed, and custom settings can be saved to a ‘favorites’ list for rapid switching to suit different applications.


UEFI BIOS updates for ASUS motherboards based on Intel H87 and B85
chipsets can be downloaded from:
• H87-PRO: H87-PRO - Motherboards - ASUS
• H87I-PLUS: H87I-PLUS - Motherboards - ASUS
• H87M-PRO: H87M-PRO - Motherboards - ASUS
• H87M-PLUS: H87M-PLUS - Motherboards - ASUS
• H87M-E: H87M-E - Motherboards - ASUS
• H87-PLUS: H87-PLUS - Motherboards - ASUS
• B85-PRO: B85-PRO - Motherboards - ASUS
• B85-PLUS: B85-PLUS - Motherboards - ASUS
• B85M-E: B85M-E - Motherboards - ASUS
• B85M-G: B85M-G - Motherboards - ASUS

For more information, see Intel Platform - ASUS

 

[ragnarok95]

OC bios. If someone use it and burn their mobo, will the distro cover the warranty?

 

[ASUS@SG]

OC bios. If someone use it and burn their mobo, will the distro cover the warranty?

Depend, most likely no. Same to Intel and AMD processor.

If you burn their processor warranty will be void.

 

[LesterQ]

Can Intel patch this forcefully. Or totally up to user?

Are the b and h boards really that easy to burn?

 

[poor_poor]

Can Intel patch this forcefully. Or totally up to user?

Are the b and h boards really that easy to burn?

Nope..

You can find more on my review

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/p...asus-b85m-g-motherboard-[review]-4254140.html

 

[ragnarok95]

Depend, most likely no. Same to Intel and AMD processor.

If you burn their processor warranty will be void.

Grey area. Anyway thanks for your reply.

 

[ipadxcell]

Can reach 4.8??

 

[betadyne]

Cool BIOS, but I think users should understand its at their own risk. Cause the MOSFETs on H87/B85 are not as beefy compared to Z87 boards (not meant to oc anyway).

Hence users need to know they could end up frying the MOSFETs if they push too much, esp on lower end models w/o any heatsinks.

 

[ASUS@SG]

Can reach 4.8??

Unless you got golden chip.

even on Z87 4.8Ghz stable require golden chip or LN2

 

[ASUS@SG]

Overclocking on B85 or H87 chipset?
Now you can overclock your "K" Unlocked processor with ASUS B85 & H87 motherboards.

Default clock speed

Overclock 4.5Ghz on ASUS B85-Plus

Overclock 4.7Ghz on ASUS B85-Plus

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...117.1073741882.103663889667628&type=1&theater

 

[betadyne]

Madness...... AFAIK B85 Plus do not have mosfet heatsinks and he is pushing 4.7GHz........ Can end up frying the mosfets in the long run though.

 

[poor_poor]

Madness...... AFAIK B85 Plus do not have mosfet heatsinks and he is pushing 4.7GHz........ Can end up frying the mosfets in the long run though.

he pushing 4.7Ghz without heat-sink on VRM, won't get burn.

nothing wrong... For haswell any board has more than 8 power phase = useless...


That Mosefts can deliver 30v, 52A and able to handle above 100 degree

 

[ragnarok95]

I still don't really agree/like the idea of a distro pushing you a "OC" bios for a not-supposedly meant for OC mobo and if anything goes wrong, sorry, they do not cover the warranty of your mobo.

Processor wise is another story since K processor are already meant for OC, or the AMD BE/FX edition...

 

[ASUS@SG]

I still don't really agree/like the idea of a distro pushing you a "OC" bios for a not-supposedly meant for OC mobo and if anything goes wrong, sorry, they do not cover the warranty of your mobo.

Processor wise is another story since K processor are already meant for OC, or the AMD BE/FX edition...

If you burn your Intel Processor and Intel won't replace any burn processor.

No one can overclock 4.7Ghz for daily usage. For daily usage 4.2 to 4.5Ghz is jjust nice for stability

 

[ragnarok95]

The problem is, its already a "K" processor. You know it suppose to be OC.

B87/H87 doesn't allow OC at the first place. Now there is a OC bios just for u to OC. Intel lock that so user have to go for a Z87 to OC.

You see the diff?????

 

[betadyne]

he pushing 4.7Ghz without heat-sink on VRM, won't get burn.

nothing wrong... For haswell any board has more than 8 power phase = useless...


That Mosefts can deliver 30v, 52A and able to handle above 100 degree

IF the mosfet can only deliver 52A max, then it will confirm die..... The CPU under load can consume easily 80A or more.

Btw, yes, mosfets can operate above 100C..... But how long it can operate is another thing. Esp. when there is no cooling.....

 

[poor_poor]

IF the mosfet can only deliver 52A max, then it will confirm die..... The CPU under load can consume easily 80A or more.

Btw, yes, mosfets can operate above 100C..... But how long it can operate is another thing. Esp. when there is no cooling.....

Do you know how many mosfets are there?

 

[ov2rey]

The problem is, its already a "K" processor. You know it suppose to be OC.

B87/H87 doesn't allow OC at the first place. Now there is a OC bios just for u to OC. Intel lock that so user have to go for a Z87 to OC.

You see the diff?????

Isn't that is a bonus?

 

[ASUS@SG]

The problem is, its already a "K" processor. You know it suppose to be OC.

B87/H87 doesn't allow OC at the first place. Now there is a OC bios just for u to OC. Intel lock that so user have to go for a Z87 to OC.

You see the diff?????

Yes we know. It's a unlock feature, we don't advise user to go into extreme overclocking on B85 or H87.

Next someone going do LN2 on B85 or H87?

 

[Mem2003]

Questions:

B85 M/B; H87 M/B
In the first place, the hardware design and build on these M/B?
So with OC done daily on these M/B not made for overclocking, suspect M/B shelf-life will be shorten.
M/B will spoils faster. [Not talking on "burn" M/B]


How many hours have Asus done with OC and M/B samples size?




For Intel Processor (K) is intend for O/C and within the limit of voltages/powers/temperature range/etc.
And Intel create the chipset Z87 to combine for it.
For daily usage 4.2 to 4.5Ghz is just nice for stability.


May be Intel will lock that feature when they release the "no problem-USB" Haswell CPU?
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ASUS Brings Haswell Processor Overclocking to H87 and B85 Motherboards

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Before this update, the overclocking features of new Haswell ‘K Series’ processors could be enjoyed only with motherboards based on the Intel Z87 chipset. Now, however, performance enthusiasts can exploit the power of Haswell K Series processors using ASUS 8 Series motherboards like the ASUS H87M-PRO and B85-PRO.

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