H97 GAMING 3 - OC Genie 4

Alright so I'm kind of confused about this, I have an i7 4790 and I heard that using OC Genie I can use it to the max, ofc I cant get far beyond the turbo clock but still, and so I've understood that I can hit a button that says OCgenie on it, on my mobo and it will activate, so I opened up my pc and looked around for like 10 minutes and found no OCgenie button, I've also seen that there is an OCgenie option in the bios, which confuses me even more, can someone please explain to me what exactly this OCgenie thing is? Sorry if this sounds stuped but this is actually my first gaming PC (I got it a few weeks ago) and I played on laptops until now I'm not so used to actually playing around with my motherboard and stuff.

There is no cpu oc possible with any H97 chipset board as Intel prohibits that. OC Genie can only accelerate the igpu of the processor. Besides your cpu wouldn't allow any "oc" beyond the turbo using all cores (3.8GHz) anyway. If you want to oc you need to buy a K cpu and a Z97 chipset board.

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