Overclocking 125w CPU on 140w mobo

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I have an FX-8350 which is 125 watts. My motherboard is a BIOSTAR Group TA970 which accepts CPUs up to 140 watts.

I don't really have a clue about overclocking. I assume that overclocking uses more wattage, right? Will there be an issue OCing my processor on this board?

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ingtar33
i'm with the others... your board will struggle getting clean power to the cpu, which will make even moderate overclocks hard to stabilize... it has heatsinks on the vrms, which is good... i mean it should be alright for running a 8350 at stock... or with a stock voltage overclock (as in not bumping the vcore and just overclocking the cpu a little). you might get 4.4ghz out of it... maybe a little more if it's a truely excellent cpu, but you're not going to get any serious overclock on that board. IF you don't mind risking the board and cpu you could push it higher, and bump the vcore anyway... but you won't get over the piledriver voltage wall (that shows up around 4.6ghz)
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You're gonna have problems OC'ing on that board because of the 4+1 power phase. More power phases = better more stable energy transmission to the CPU. You should look for something with atleast a 4+2 power phase, preferably an 8+2.

However, for overclocking AMD FX series CPU's I recommend getting a 990FX chipset motherboard. It just makes overclocking easier and more effective.

I recommend this board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157281&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
 
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i'm with the others... your board will struggle getting clean power to the cpu, which will make even moderate overclocks hard to stabilize... it has heatsinks on the vrms, which is good... i mean it should be alright for running a 8350 at stock... or with a stock voltage overclock (as in not bumping the vcore and just overclocking the cpu a little). you might get 4.4ghz out of it... maybe a little more if it's a truely excellent cpu, but you're not going to get any serious overclock on that board. IF you don't mind risking the board and cpu you could push it higher, and bump the vcore anyway... but you won't get over the piledriver voltage wall (that shows up around 4.6ghz)
 
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You'll be able to overclock, but depending on your CPU, it might be unstable, and become unstable more quickly. So you might only be getting an extra 200-300 MHz, which is almost not worth it.
 
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