A Sandy Bridge Pentium that OC's???

Hello everyone!

I'm a user of HWBOT for about 4 years, had about 60 points on my old HWBOT account, haven't done much on this one.

I don't know much about intel's lower end lineup, and I was under the impression that all of the 1155 pentiums were locked multiplier. Well I threw together a computer for office use today with an EVGA P67 SLI board and a Pentium G640, and while messing around in the bios, noticed that I was able to set a different value in the processor's multiplier setting. I saved the bios and to my surprise, The BIOS is showing the value I've set.

I have not installed windows yet, but I certianly will get a cpuz validation when I do.

I'm wondering if anyone has more information as to why this is possible?

Bios settings are irrelevant (sometimes), I also have 12GHz bios screenshots, doesn't mean it actually works in Windows. Let's see a validation link.

So I just got windows installed............and the processor is running at its stock multiplier.

I suppose this is one of those times that the bios is dead wrong, can't believe I fell for that.

One final ditch effort is to get Windows to "High Performance" mode, but the chances are that it won't overclock.

I had an MSI Z77 GD65 motherboard that wouldn't overclock, no matter what. I had an 8GHz i7-3770K on less than stock voltage according to its BIOS.

Sometimes if you load a profile made with a K-chip on a locked Pentium, you will see all the high multiplier and core options, but it doesn't mean that they will actually apply.