How to Kill Your Motherboard: 150° Overclock

We demonstrate how an unwitting user could kill their motherboard VRM with high overclocks, demonstrated ft. Raven Ridge R5 2400G.
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Using a low-end motherboard with no VRM cooling, an anemic VRM, and an AMD R5 2400G Raven Ridge APU, we demonstrate just how easy it is to accidentally increase your VRM temperatures to a point of overtemperature protection or flame-out. Whether or not the VRM bursts will depend on motherboard protections, but either way, you don't want low-end caps operating over 105*C for prolonged periods of time, as this wears-down lifespan. This "GN Workshop" content demonstrates that thermals can still be problematic during overclocking, even if CPU temperature is low. We *intentionally* starved the MOSFETs for airflow (think: a case like the Bitfenix Enso while using a front-mounted radiator) just to try and show what happens when you overheat a MOSFET on this board. We managed 150C internal (roughly), 133-136C external.

During the course of overclocking, we also talk about safe SOC voltage, safe APU GFX voltage for Raven Ridge, and show 1.2V vs. 1.3V temperature impact on the ASUS B350M-E motherboard.

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Host: Steve Burke
Video: Andrew Coleman

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