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what's going on guys J's - since you're trying to answer some of the most common questions I find often in my inbox maybe I should actually start some sort of an inbox series I don't know you guys tend to fuel a lot of the content that you see on this channel so that's why it's important that I do these topics that might seem like common sense to a lot of people but for people just starting out and really getting overwhelmed with a lot of the information that's out there on the internet when it comes to selecting your PC parts I'm just trying to put it right here in more of a layman's terms that you can understand and get yourself up and running without too much confusion and today we're going to talk about overclocking motherboards when you need them and do you even really need them at all all using my voice here great now before we dive into today's topic I want to thank today's sponsor lynda.com slash J but I'm about to teach you some things here about motherboards but if you like 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you'll find that the overclocking branded motherboards like we're looking at right here with this MSI X power titanium Edition which I want to say might very well be one of the sexiest motherboards I think I have ever seen I will be doing a full review of this I will be doing a build with this utilizing this sort of a titanium and black theme but that's for another video at the risk of being one of those guys who tease videos well in advance but at least I want you guys to know what coming up but as with that said this is a top tier motherboard it is designed towards overclocking their X power and empower brand of motherboards have always been tailored towards overclockers and the question is what makes us an overclocking motherboard and do you need it well first of all you'll find that the overclocking motherboards like I said tend to be the top tier motherboards so they come with a lot more features than just the overclocking perimeters and specifications that you'll find on this motherboard for instance you'll find better audio built-in usually you'll find better NICs built in this one happens to have USB 3.1 gen2 on here which is not a type-c connector which is really unfortunate there's no type-c but you're going to find that there is going to be additional features like on-the-fly overclocking button controls this thing here can actually come off and has a cable that you can control this outside of your pc you've got these additional overclocking buttons here tons and tons of different SATA types of connections SATA Express just lots and lots of features but usually in order to get something that's branded as being you know overclocking Specht you get a lot of that extra stuff which is what really bumps up the price now something else that really bumps up the price is overclocking motherboards tend to have a lot more design in their power delivery system and that is what's most important when it comes to overclocking now in the instance here the X power gaming here from MSI you will find that there are 16 power phases on this thing now what does that mean what is a power phase well first of all you've got to take the 12 volt that is being sent from the power supply to the CPU and step that down anywhere usually between one point one volts and 1.5 volts depending on your level of overclock now when you step down voltage like that especially when you're stepping it down that far from 12 volts down to one point whatever there is quite a bit of heat that can build up in there now the reason why more power phases is important is because as you step that voltage down from 12 volts down to one point let's just say three which is where I tend to keep my CPUs that is a that's quite a bit of difference there and that power has to be filtered down to that lower usable voltage for the CPU otherwise it would just instantly explode and then what you're going to end up with is just that Herbal burnt smell that you get when you fry an electronic now the more power phases you have the more filters that electricity is going to go through before it steps down to that final voltage you're really kind of spreading out that load amongst all of those phases so what that means is the overall power delivery system for the CPU is going to run much cooler and much more efficient because as those VRMs get really hot they started to become more unstable which can lead to BS ODS or blue screens of death or the smiley face of death depending on which edition of Windows that you're on and you're going to get just overall system instabilities at least when it comes to the power delivery there's other factors involved involved when it comes to blue screens of death but that's just one of them the other thing is you're going to get a much higher quality component on here you're going to get better ferrite chokes on here you're going to get better MOSFETs on here and better quite honestly costs more when it comes to these circuits and things so that's why the pricing is up quite a bit on these overclocking motherboards now what you'll also find on overclocking motherboards is additional places to plug in power so you've got your 8 pin EPS power here for your CPU it gets its own dedicated 12 volt and ground that goes to just it but you also get an auxilary because as you start to really bump up that voltage going to the CPU bumping up that overclock there's a much more demand on the power delivery system so you can supplement that power in case the 8 pin ends up not being enough you've got additional power auxilary power going into there to keep that load line very very steady that's another thing that can happen too is as you overclock the CPU and it goes in and out of demand different demand states you can get what's called V Group which is where the voltage will drop below the user specified voltage and then you get blue screens and crashes and stuff because it was temporarily too low to maintain the overclock that you set higher end overclocking motherboards also have better what's called V Group specifications and parameters built in to really limit the chance of getting V droop in your system now something else you'll notice with overclocking motherboards is they tend to advertise if they have a higher content of gold in the socket which is what they're actually coating the pins with to get a better contact between the pin and CPU now I've never heard anyone say that that's true or not true that higher gold content actually makes a difference when it comes to overclocking stability however you'll find that a lot of the manufacturers will advertise that they've got more gold content in the CPU because remember there's gold in them their sockets right there you know there's gold go mine for gold that was bad I know but overall you will find that the construction of overclocking grade motherboards are just beefed here and these things are complete beefcake when it comes to the way that they're designed they're thicker PCBs there are thicker traces better materials used all around now most motherboards even ones that are not you know branded as overclocking motherboards will give you control over parameters like B clock and multiplier and voltage and v droop only usually you have a much more dumbed down version of those settings which are very basic but it does allow you to overclock your processors but it doesn't mean that they're necessarily ready or the best idea to push your CPUs as far as you can with those because one thing that happens as you overclock your cpu is you start to get a very exponential curve of heat with added voltage now MSI actually had an issue with the 970 SLI crate Edition motherboard which a lot of folks bought it because it was inexpensive it was under a hundred bucks and they started putting in things like you know 8350 CPUs or 83 70s and overclocking them and then started finding that they were frying their motherboards because they were only three phases and they were all that heat was being drawn through just three phases and vm's and MOSFETs and then they were just literally just combusting and popping and breaking left and right but that's something to keep in mind is that as you overclock you draw a lot of heat through that socket just for instance the 8350 is 125 watt CPU but when you overclock that thing it draws over 220 watts that is nearly double what the the actual motherboard was designed to handle so unless you get something designated as overclocking mild overclocks at best would be moderately recommended even even some motherboards are not going to be performing very well with mild overclock so start to see things getting very very very hot on the motherboard another thing to that mentioned before I get out of here is that overclocking branded motherboards also tend to have better cooling solutions built in for the power delivery all the heat sinks that you see around the CPU are directly touching the VRMs to allow as much cooling as possible so that's why even when your water cooling your CPUs you have to have some sort of airflow going through your case otherwise the motherboards going to get quite a bit hot anyway guys thanks for watching today's video I'm going to be getting into some much more higher content quality you know production value stuff I know the talking head videos a lot of you like I personally want to do more than just sit here and talk to you guys and just do data dump of knowledge on top of you don't want to dump my knowledge on you well I do want to dump my knowledge on you but I want to do it creatively and fun and we'll be getting to that point soon like I said the shop is just about setup I've got some builds going like I said I might be doing it build with this badass looking motherboard when I when I requested this motherboard I asked for an X power but I forgot all about the titanium Edition and this is the one that they sent me normally the X power is black and yellow but this thing yeah this is going to lead to some options when it comes to colors and I think it is going to look freaking awesome anyway guys time to get out of here thanks for watching again let me know what topics you want me to cover this video is directly derived from my inbox so if you guys want to see me do some sort of an inbox series where I just do this type of video let me know they're easy to make they really give you guys a lot of knowledge and insider information on overclocking and water cooling things like that and I'll continue to do it if that's what you want to see anyway I'm rambling now it's time to go I'll see you guys in the next video