Did anyone overclock GIGABYTE Z390 DESIGNARE with Core i7-8700K?

[EpicNUFO]

I would like to strongly second the OP's sentiments, WHY is overclocking blocked on the 8700k on the Z390 Designare?

My benchmarks went from 6722 single core on the Z370 with 5.0ghz oc to 5600's on the Z390 without overclock...

 

[EpicNUFO]

S O L V E D

For anyone struggling with this, the issue was very simple and dumb. Gigabyte has changed the format of some bios entries from an "Enter" with a context menu popup to a page up/down format. Simply highlight the cpu multiplier entry where it usually says "Auto" and use page up/down to select your multiplier (50 for 5.0gHz). It allows up to 52.

 

[hackintosh28]

No it's not just the 8700k. I have the Z390 Designaire with a 9700k. Easy OC is "Not Supported here" in BIOS (F6) with the 9700k which makes me think it's not the CPU's locking us out, it's GIGABYTE. SO, I thought, okay, maybe they want me to do it through their "App Center" so on Win 10 I downloaded Easy Tune, EVERYTHING is greyed out. The only way I have been able to OC at all is through Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, and that's only on the windows side, so for my Mac OS Mojave install I get no OC.

What the heck is 12+1 phases worth if they won't let us OC at all???

 

[hackintosh28]

Just saw your "solved" post, will try that

 

[foster]

One reason I picked a i9-9900K