How well would this motherboard overclock?

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Hello, I was looking at this motherboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A55M-VG3+/

And was wondering how well it would be able to overclock an AMD 760k? I know A55 isn't the best chipset, but this motherboard is within my budget and appears to have everything I need. It does state that it has an overclocking utility, and I'd like to get at least a very moderate overclock of 4.1 or 4.2Ghz if that's possible.

I ask this because I know there's quite a few factors that determine how much of an overclock you can achieve. I don't want to have the CPU throttled because the board gets too hot for whatever reason. (I know VRM heatsyncs are a thing, although I don't know what they are or what they do, perhaps somebody could explain that to me.)

 
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On a similar chipset/board, I took my 460K to 4.5GHZ on just the multiplier alone. It was stable... most of the time. I finally backed off to 4.3 and lived with that.
But I had to use the new AMD Overdrive and watch my thermal margin instead of core temps because the core temp was unreliable on my Athlon.

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Then I should be fine with a moderate overclock? How high do you think I could safely get out of a board like this?
 

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On a similar chipset/board, I took my 460K to 4.5GHZ on just the multiplier alone. It was stable... most of the time. I finally backed off to 4.3 and lived with that.
But I had to use the new AMD Overdrive and watch my thermal margin instead of core temps because the core temp was unreliable on my Athlon.
 
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I could absolutely live with that, thanks for the help!