Hello,
In my build, I have an MSI 970 Gaming motherboard that has served me very well and I very much love it, and my 8320 which I've kept at an overclock of 4.5GHz for about a year or so. I knew the motherboard was worse than others when overclocking CPU as the VRM's weren't the best quality and the motherboard itself doesn't want to handle a lot of voltage, either, but I'm stuck with it. I currently have an H55 cooler stuck on it with two fans in a push-pull configuration keeping my CPU a frosty 40C while gaming.
I'm looking to overclock this further, however. I tried a few times; there seems to be a massive jump in voltage requirements from 4.5GHz to 4.6GHz. I am running 4.5GHz with 1.472V, about a 0.1V increase. Is this massive jump okay with it, or is it the warning to stop with this motherboard?
Or should I just move on to overclocking my GPU?
Thanks
In my build, I have an MSI 970 Gaming motherboard that has served me very well and I very much love it, and my 8320 which I've kept at an overclock of 4.5GHz for about a year or so. I knew the motherboard was worse than others when overclocking CPU as the VRM's weren't the best quality and the motherboard itself doesn't want to handle a lot of voltage, either, but I'm stuck with it. I currently have an H55 cooler stuck on it with two fans in a push-pull configuration keeping my CPU a frosty 40C while gaming.
I'm looking to overclock this further, however. I tried a few times; there seems to be a massive jump in voltage requirements from 4.5GHz to 4.6GHz. I am running 4.5GHz with 1.472V, about a 0.1V increase. Is this massive jump okay with it, or is it the warning to stop with this motherboard?
Or should I just move on to overclocking my GPU?
Thanks