Overclocking the 8350 with a 4+1 board?

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Bought and 8350 and a 970 Extreme4. I'm not going for a massive OC here. Only, I'd say, 4.5, maybe? If it can run at turbo, which is 4.2, I don't think that asking for an extra .3 is too much of a problem.

People on another forum are ranting and raving about how I wont be able to do it, though. What do you guys think? Should I just sell my mobo and buy one with an 8+2? What are the chances I can actually reach a stable 4.5 oc on this board?

Nothing else is going to be an issue. 700w psu, one gpu, and 8gb 1866 cl9 ram.

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i think it's been done before with that sort of power phase....

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Do you think a stable oc at 4.5 is reasonable?

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I had my FX-8120 (which draws a little more power than 8350) OCed to 4.5ghz on a 4+1 phase board and it was stable in that the system didn't crash, but then at full load the mobo would throttle the cpu, so I never really had the full performance at that clock.

To give you a sense of the performance hit my Cinebench score would be like 1.0 less than they should be.

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So it is possible, it's just not optimal?

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At least in my case using a Gigabyte 970A-D3 board.

My understanding is it throttles the cpu so the VRMs don't burn out. I can't speak to how it would work on other motherboards.

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Well I have a 970 Extreme4