Quote Originally Posted by zhadoom View Post
Maybe a non properly cooled VRM system or medium/low quality standard capacitors to power the processor...
The most common and low cost boards designed to support 95W processors ( being optimistic since I already have a Biostar AM2 board that recommended only 65W or lower processors ).

@Particle,
I'm very confused with the temperature reading from every software that I tried. All register 13-14ºC Idle but the environment ( ambient ) is 22ºC. Full load temps are 34-35ºC. That temps looks unrealistic to me. Any guess about this ? since the readings are directly from the core can I supose that the temperature curve ( or something like ) is changed ?
On my Foxconn A79A-S that has 5 phases and the mosfets have a heatsink, I noticed running 4Ghz at 1.39V (1.42 under load), the caps and the ferrite cores were too hot to touch - measured at 62C which I think is not good long term.

The board was reporting temps at 56C (core temp was reporting 52). With vcore set to default - 1.28v (1.31 under load) and multiplier to 19, I now have it running prime95 at 47C for the last 9 hours. Huge difference in temps.

I think overclocking Thubans by increasing vcore beyond 1.45v is something I would not attempt unless you have watercooling and the board has 8+2 phases capable of handling at least 140W with active cooling on the VRM.