Trying to overclock the 965BE on a GA-970A-D3. Been through the bios time and time again upping the multiplier to gain an overclock. Once I apply the multiplier, if I go back to Bios and view the system status, it says that all 4 cores are overclocked. Great. Trouble is, when I boot to windows, cpu-z, open hardware monitor and AMD overdrive all report that CPU Core #1 is the only core overclocked, and the other 3 are at stock speed. Looking for some guidance here as I am a noob.
To get around this, I have upped the bus speed to 224 instead of 200 to achieve 3.8GHz on all cores, I am just wondering if this may damage the other components of the system long-term? Also, anyone know why increasing the multiplier only affects 1 core with this board? A google of "overclocking only applied to 1 core" shows a group of MSI owners with similar troubles... but no one ever gets to the bottom of it.
To get around this, I have upped the bus speed to 224 instead of 200 to achieve 3.8GHz on all cores, I am just wondering if this may damage the other components of the system long-term? Also, anyone know why increasing the multiplier only affects 1 core with this board? A google of "overclocking only applied to 1 core" shows a group of MSI owners with similar troubles... but no one ever gets to the bottom of it.
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