Aquinus (Most AMD boards that aren't for pre-builts tend to support overclocking.)

Maybe you can enlighten us an tell us exactly what AMD CPUs can't overclock because I've seen even AM1 and Opteron CPUs overclocked. :wtf:

medi01 Well, why did they introduce K / non-K things? To get more $ from those into o-clocking. (and how much more expensive it is was at any particular moment, doesn't change this).

Sempron Guy All current FXs are black ed. ( unlocked multiplier ). You can overclock an FX even on a lowly 960g chipset motherboard. The only locked AMD cpus are some of the apu variants but you can still overclock them via bclk and bclk headroom is more flexible than the non-k intel chips.

Anything that doesn't have a unlocked multiplier on FM2/AM1 has the same limitation as Intel. Yes you can technically overclock them by raising the BCLK, but you can technically overclock any Intel in the same way. However, you won't get very far before things like the PCI-E Bus or SATA ports start to get unstable.The K chips were just an answer to the small niche market of people that overclock. Integrating the northbridge onto the CPU and running both off a single clock generator meant good overclocking by raising the BCLK was no longer possible. AMD faced the same problem with their designs when they integrated the northbridge completely. AM3+ was the last platform to have an external northbridge, and the last platform that could seriously be overclocked by adjusting the FSB/BCLK.AMD does have a lot more unlocked CPUs, but that is kind of their marketing gimmick. The entire FX line is unlocked but ironically that are the only ones that didn't need to be. And I wouldn't say the BCLK headroom on AMD's APUs is that much more than on Intel, a small amount maybe, but not a lot.