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I'm going to upgrade to an AMD A10-5800K. Will I be able to overclock it on a MSI-7778 motherboard? Will my CoolerMaster CM12V be fine if it does? I have the motherboard with a A8-5500 so I could check BIOS if that's a solution. Thank you.

Mobo: MSI 2AE0 1.0 (FM2)
CPU: AMD A8 5500 (3.2/3.7GHz)
GPU: Asus GeForce GT 1030 (2GB)
PSU: HP 667893-002 (300w)
RAM: x2 Samsung M378B1G73BH0-CK0 (8GB DDR3)

Drive 1: Kingston A400 SA400S37240G (240 GB)
Drive 2: Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 (1TB)

Monitor: Toshiba 23L1350U (23", 1920x1080, 60HZ)

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1 hour ago, Burner1061 said:

I'm going to upgrade to an AMD A10-5800K. Will I be able to overclock it on a MSI-7778 motherboard? Will my CoolerMaster CM12V be fine if it does? I have the motherboard with a A8-5500 so I could check BIOS if that's a solution. Thank you.

That motherboard looks like a HP specific one so I'm guessing this is a HP tower, which would also make sense given your cooler as HP also tends to use these low end Cooler Master ones. In a nutshell, I would say no to overclocking. Almost all OEMs lockdown their BIOSes to disallow any sort of overclocking. Plus, I wouldn't exactly trust any meaningful overclock with those VRMs on OEM boards. You can check in the BIOS, but my bet is there's nothing there regarding overclocking. 

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