Will Overclocking Kill My System?!?!?

wentalong

wentalong

wentalong

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Heey guyss,

im getting a Foxcon A79A-S next week hopefully, And ive been doing some reading up about motherboard phases im not sure whether overclockig on this board will be okay or not,

what i plan to do is; buy this mobo now, and then later on buy a 955BE, which i will want to overlcock, but ive read that some people have blew their motherboards overlcoking these chips on boards with 4+1 phases

this board has 4+1 power phases and so im wondering if i try to overlcock the phenom 955 with the foxconn a79a-s, will i blow the board? i might increase the volts on the cpu but if its to much of a risk i may just increase the fsb until its prime stable without increasing the vcore,

heres a link to the boaards info

the board has a heatsink over the VRMS, whether they are good quality or not im not sure, heres a picture of the sink:

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Overclocking the 955BE is the simplest thing ever.

you dont need to alter the FSB, just keep adding +1 to the multiplier as its fully unlocked.
 
yeah but people have said when they've overvolted the cpu from the stock 1.45 to 1.5 to get a better overclock its killed their am2+ boards as it only has 4+1 power phases (most people have MSI boards that get killed when overlcocking phenom X6 cpu's) but im just conceard if i put too much preassure on the board with overclocking i might kill it,
 
wentalong said:
yeah but people have said when they've overvolted the cpu from the stock 1.45 to 1.5 to get a better overclock its killed their am2+ boards as it only has 4+1 power phases (most people have MSI boards that get killed when overlcocking phenom X6 cpu's) but im just conceard if i put too much preassure on the board with overclocking i might kill it,
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you can overclock without touching the voltage. you only need to increase the voltage when you've reached your Max stable overclock but want more. I think that's how.it works anyway lol

edit : could someone confirm this for me actually as I'll need to know soon :) this is what I gathered from my research so far
 
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If your Phenom II is a R3-C3 stepping (new ones are) you can hit 4.0GHz without changing voltage.

I pushed mine to 4.2GHz on stock volts (1.4v) for mine, and can actually reach 3.8GHz on less than 1.35v :)
 
Shouldn't do.

I have a similar board to you - Foxconn A7DA-S 3.0.

Not sure on the power phase as can't find that anywhere, but it's a very stable board and has 50x multi - always sweet :)
 
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