Tomas Quintero

I built a new desktop last week around AMD’s Athlon64 X2 7750 Black Edition on an ASUS M3A78-EM (which in a year or so will be retired to be used as an HTPC). Currently OC’d to 2.9GHz (from 2.7, nothing extreme).

I will be switching from stock cooling to a Typhoon I picked up off of Marcus and OC’ing up to 3.1GHz. The M3A78-EM has voltage issues and supplies 1.32v to the CPU at 2.7GHz, which produces heating issues. I’ve managed to lower that voltage to 1.15 and maintain stability (I have not tried going lower yet, I will during the week). Currently I am at 42C, whereas I was at 57C at 2.7GHz. In order to lower the voltage on this board (not supported via BIOS) you must use AMD OverDrive and enable Advanced Mode in the preferences menu.