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Can I overclock my PC?

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I have an older pc with an AMD FX-8320 cpu and 32gb 1333mhz ram (dont know the company). I was wondering if I could overclock this, I dont have an overclocking motherboard, but could I use afterburner? My GPU is an Asus gtx 660, is that overclockable aswell?

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Afterburner is a GPU overclock program. Without an overclockable motherboard, you can't overclock.

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Haven't had an FX cpu for a while but does AMD Overdrive support FX chips? I know It had limited Overclocking on even laptops a while ago.

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43 minutes ago, 4ce_Games said:

In afterburner it says I can change the clock speed though (for CPU and Ram).

Maybe you should read up on the basics before trying to OC. Afterburner doesn't allow CPU and RAM overclocking. 

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