Can an AMD 1045T be overclocked?

[Anonymous_26]

I have an HP desktop that now has a blown motherboard. My plan is to trash as much of the OEM stuff as possible and start salvaging parts. I'm keeping the CPU (AMD Phenom II 1045T), 1 TB HDD and optical drive. I want to take the 1045T (along with the salvaged parts listed above) and build a cheap gaming computer around it. My question is can the 1045 be overclocked at all even though it's not a Black Edition class CPU?

 

[rolli59]

Yes it can by tweaking the fsb!

 

[Anonymous_26]

By how much though? Is it like Intel CPU's where non k versions can only be overclocked a few hundrerd MHz or can it be heavily overclocked?

 

[rolli59]

Depending on motherboard it can usually be overclocked substantially even 3.5GHz would not be out of the picture!

 

[Anonymous_26]

Wow I thought I would be lucky to get a few hundred MHz if I could get it into the 3.4-3.5 range that would be great. The only problem I'm seeing is finding a good motherboard. There doesn't seem to be alot of AM3's left and trying to find one that allows for heavy overclocking is going to make it even harder.

 

[samuelspark]

Asrock 970 Extreme4. Fairly good overclocker and isn't that expensive. Also, it's possible to get 4GHz. Not very hard. Pretty common.

 

[samuelspark]

Please pick a best answer to close the thread as it helps the mods out a lot.