I'm a tech newb please assist me

[Alex Jackson]

Sorry if I sound a bit silly as I don't particularly work with tech often, but I heard that the motherboard as well as the CPU determines if you can overclock it. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B014QPFSOC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Could a tech expert or someone more experienced than myself reply and let me know if If this motherboard is capable of overclocking this CPU

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-i7-7700K-QuadCore-Cache-Processor/dp/B01MXSI216/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1488734186&sr=1-1&keywords=i7+7700k+lga1151

Many thanks to anybody who can provide me an answer!

 

[Saul Goodman]

Just need to check whether your motherboard will support your CPU, you can easily do this by putting your pc into a website like PCPartPicker and looking for compatibility issues.

 

[Alex Jackson]

Just need to check whether your motherboard will support your CPU, you can easily do this by putting your pc into a website like PCPartPicker and looking for compatibility issues.




 

Thank you so much!

 

[Sonny Pebble]

Both with work together (along with ddr4 ram) but seeing as you're going out with an i7-7700k I suggest getting a higher tier motherboard , better overclcoking utilities more USB 3.0 hubs. 

If you're not going to be editing videos and rendering etc on the machine you can get an i5 7700k, mines overclocked to 4.8 ghz and works a charm. If you're stuck on anything ping me a message on the forums more then happy help, it's my day to day job