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ryan211   02-01-2012 at 07:54:02 PM

hello there.

I just got a AMD II Phenom x4 @ 3.6ghz Black Edition.

My motherboard is locked since I made the stupid mistake of buying a prebuilt computer from HP a year ago (I know im an idiot)

Anyways, when I open AMD overdrive its allowing me to play with the CPU multiplier.

Does this mean I can overclock a little bit even though my motherboard is locked? For example, I probably wont be able to raise any voltages, but I heard this CPU can hit 4.0ghz without any voltage tweaks whatsoever.

Thanks guys..just curious is all.

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ryan211   02-01-2012 at 09:19:25 PM

ryan211 wrote :

hello there.

I just got a AMD II Phenom x4 @ 3.6ghz Black Edition.

My motherboard is locked since I made the stupid mistake of buying a prebuilt computer from HP a year ago (I know im an idiot)

Anyways, when I open AMD overdrive its allowing me to play with the CPU multiplier.

Does this mean I can overclock a little bit even though my motherboard is locked? For example, I probably wont be able to raise any voltages, but I heard this CPU can hit 4.0ghz without any voltage tweaks whatsoever.

Thanks guys..just curious is all.



Anybody? Im relatively new to this whole overclocking thing (if you cant tell)

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simon12   02-02-2012 at 11:44:32 AM

Just try to raise the multiplier by 1 increment and see what happens.

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