blinkingpeak649 Posted July 4, 2011 Posted July 4, 2011 Hi all. I'm new to OCing and would like to know if anyone has any experience with or knows of failures with a Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2 mobo while OCing an AMD Phenom II x2 560 BE to either x3 or x4 cores? From the threads i've read I see this mobo may be a no-go due to its power handling. Can anyone attest to it? My set up is below: CPU: AMD Phenom II x2 560 BE CPU fan: CNPS9900A LED MoBo: Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2 Case: Logisys Optimus 1200 (4x 120mm fans; 1 top fan, 2 side fans, 1 front fan) GPU: XFX HD-687A-ZDFC Radeon HD 6870 @ stock Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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blinkingpeak649 Posted July 6, 2011 Posted July 6, 2011 found a post that reports the mobo listed above can't take the currents running through it. I'll hold off OCing for now until i get a proper board. I'm looking to turn this x2 into an x4. http://www.overclock.net/amd-motherboards/946407-amd-motherboard-vrm-information-list.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
l1o2l Posted July 6, 2011 Posted July 6, 2011 Only one way to find out That spreadsheet doesn't say anything that would really affect you. You'll be able to OC fine. My motherboard has a 4+1 VRM configuration and it OC's fine. Just make sure you good case airflow so it can cool down those phases/VRMs. Keep an eye on temperatures. Below 55 °C would be best, as Phenom IIs have a heat wall around 55-57 °C. Overclocking a BE is fairly simple. Visit my blog to see what I did. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinkingpeak649 Posted July 19, 2011 Posted July 19, 2011 That spreadsheet doesn't say anything that would really affect you. You'll be able to OC fine. My motherboard has a 4+1 VRM configuration and it OC's fine. Just make sure you good case airflow so it can cool down those phases/VRMs. Keep an eye on temperatures. Below 55 °C would be best, as Phenom IIs have a heat wall around 55-57 °C. Overclocking a BE is fairly simple. Visit my blog to see what I did. Thanks for your help. Going to do more research on VRMs and such. I know my mobo supports 125W CPUs and my Phenom II x2 BE base is 80W (I'm assuming power consumption). How does that factor into VRMs? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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