How to overclock AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 445

Supreez

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Hello, so i want to know how to exactly overclock my CPU. I found out that I have to go to BIOS and stuff, but as of everyone has a different BIOS and motherboards, and I'm not the best at OverClocking I would like to get some help from more experienced people so I don't blow up my pc doing this all by myself.

By the title, as I said, I have AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 445 Processor (3 CPUs), ~3. 1GHz CPU
And a Gigabyte GA-780T-D3L motherboard.

Also I want to know how to unlock it to 4 cores not just OC.
If anyone can provide me step-by-step instuctions, I would really appreciate it. Also if you need any more info about pc write in comments.
 
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I have not unlocked an AMD core before but I believe that if you unlock it and it does not work the disabled core was faulty and why sold as an X3. You can try unlocking it again and upping CoreV by .5V, 1.5V max, 1.45V recommended. Remember more voltage = more heat, higher frequency = more heat. ensure you have good CPU and VRM cooling.

Themastererr

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Kindly letting you know you do not have heatsinks on your MOSFETS. If you decide to overclock using a decent CPU voltage, and do not actively cool this region, the MOSFETS will go up in smoke and it will take the CPU with it.

Be very careful with your CPU Vcore.
 

Supreez

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So I tried unlocking through BIOS but after enabling core unlock, i restarted pc and couldn't start up my pc, had to do cmos restart. Probably not gonna try unlocking it.
 
I have not unlocked an AMD core before but I believe that if you unlock it and it does not work the disabled core was faulty and why sold as an X3. You can try unlocking it again and upping CoreV by .5V, 1.5V max, 1.45V recommended. Remember more voltage = more heat, higher frequency = more heat. ensure you have good CPU and VRM cooling.
 
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