Hey guys. I am calling all APU users to help me and my fiend out. I helped him build a APU system since he wanted to make his first PC. I wanted to ask what software you guys to overclock the iGPU and how high you guys overclocked. As well, the RAM you guys used, the timings and what speed the ram you guys have. He has a 1600 Mhz Ripjaws kit of 16 GB. Just wondering how easy was it for you guys. Thanks for the help and Merry Christmas.
I don't have an apu but if you are looking to do some relatively small over clocking on the igpu look into AMD overdrive it's a pretty easy to use program with built in stress testing
Ya shoulda gone with like 8 gbs of 2400mhz really for an APU
overclocking the iGPU isn't going to help, CPU OC might help a bit, but APUs are bottlenecked by RAM a decent amount
Yes, I know. We were misguided by the listing of the RAM. It said 2400 MHZ. But when the box came, it said 1600 MHZ. I thought we can overclock it since Ripjaws, as I heard was a good overclockable ram.
I bought some cheap evga 2400 AND 2133 DRAM for my a 10 builds. They show up as 1600 in the Bios but I just upped the voltage to 1.6 and they work fine. Maybe try to OC the Ram
Autotune works fantastic but My 7850 I left at stock cause the MB is a VERY cheap one and My kids 7870k I don't cause if something goes south Dad broke her pc. Plus I just upgraded it to dual graphics and an ssd so it is at stock speed also.
BTW I have seen used r7 250's for 40 bucks on ebay and 60 at some big box stores.
Autotune did get the 7850 to 4.5 were it froze, tried 3.9 and it still froze on shutdown, The chipset heatsink is totally inadequate and gets pretty hot so just left it stock. When my dau's 7870k gets the GTX 770 I will get her r7 250.
Gosh I hope something in this ramble helps. Merry Christmas:)
Never did my iGPU but on my old A10-6790K I got the CPU to 4.6GHz (that was done with watercooling and a Crossblade Ranger). For an APU you should have gotten at least 2133MHz for your ram as 1600 will bottleneck the iGPU significantly. As for software, DON'T OC WITH SOFTWARE, use the BIOS if you are going to overclock. Software overclocking will screw you over.
Also pay close attention to the thermal solution that you are using. APUs do not take kindly to overclocking and will push out vast quantities of heat when overclocked. If you are planning on overclocking do not use the stock heatsink as it is worthless.
Lastly as for the ease of overclocking. APUs are really good for "baby's first overclock", all you need to do is alternate bumping up the voltage and the multiplier and test along the way.
The box said that? or that's what it showed after installing/booting up?
i think he means from where they ordered it from it said 2400 MHZ
What are the specs of the system?
On an Asus A88x pro with after market heatsink I got my AMD 7850k to a stable 4.5ghz. My ram is 2400mhz Corsair Platinum’s clocked just over 2500mhz. But the bios played a big part in getting to that because on certain ones I could not get the ram to run even at stock speeds.
Let's see...
AMD APU A10-7870K
Gigabyte F2A88XN-WIFI Motherboard
D.Skills Ripjaws 16GB 1600 MHz Ram (When ordering, it said 2400 Mhz)
Corsair H60 120 mm watercooling AIO
Corsair 430 Watt Power supply...
all harbored in a Cooler Master Elite 130 ITX case
Thank you guys who said get 2400 Mhz RAM, I knew had to get it, but was misguided by the listing as @ninja85a said.
So I assumed it will be easy to overclock since Ripjaws are easy to overclock unless I am wrong. Thank you again for all your help.
Did you enable the XMP Profile on the Memory on the BIOS since the motherboard can support 2400Mhz when OC
Listen to MrChumps. Are you sure the ram you ordered was wrong? Or have you just not set it up properly?
Most motherboards do not natively set ram to 2400mhz. In fact, the motherboard you listed does not even support 2400mhz ram. It only list that it goes up to 2133mhz. (not that you might not be able to make it).
And try different bios even if you have to downgrade it sometime because it does help/matter.
edit- my bad. It does list 2400mhz/oc for the motherboard
Don't feel bad.....For a month I mouse clicked the voltage setting and nothin. Finally read the manual and found out I am supposed to hit the "plus" key to increase voltage to 1.6:)
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Don't worry about it, @eastexas. That is what I wanted to do for him, overclock it if the speed doesn't reach 2400 Mhz. I understand there are 8Gb kits clocked at 2400 Mhz natively. I took 16Gb because more doesn't hurt right? Also what I have heard about APU's is that you can allocate how much memory you want to use for the iGPU, esentially the VRAM. Unless I am wrong on that, then 16 Gb will be enough for the daily web browsing and thousands of tabs used on Chrome since we all know what Chrome does to Ram.