A10 6800K overclocking help please!

Ruben Bruggeling

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Hello people,

I'm a bit new to overclocking, and i am expermimenting to overclock my a10 6800k black edition apu.

But i have a few problems; i tried the default ati catalyst control center overdrive function, as wel the official overdrive software, the official software crashed first with the auto tune, but it was locked at 4,4ghz after that. So i tried the catalyst auto tune function and it crashed at 4,8ghz, after reboot it was confirmed that this would be the max. clock, so now i can use the slider to set it at max 4,8Ghz.
But: my settings won't be applied after reboot, and won't show up in the bios, it just uses the default clock speeds, or even jumps to the half of the multiplier! I have disabled amd cool and quiet and turbo core technology, and tried enable one of them and then overclock, but it just won't work.
I also can not overclock directly from the ''oc-genie'' in bios, i get the ''only 65watt apus supported'' error...
I also tried increasing the voltage etc, i am just missing some steps i think, or am not doing it in the right order or something...

So, what am i doing wrong ? i know this apu is easy overclockable

Some overclocking help would be greatly aprieciated ;)

My Specs:

MB: MSI A78M-E35
CPU: A10 6800k black
PSU: 500watt cooler master b500
GPU: radeon 7870 ghz edition
RAM: 8gb corsair vengeance ram (10-10-10-27)
 
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It's only easy to OC if you don't use the software/firmware to OC. Return all your settings to default again, and then don't use that for OC'ing any more.

Go to BIOS, disable Turbo Mode if available, and raise the CPU clock multiplier one click. Save and exit. Boot to Win and run something like Intel Burn Test: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4965-intelburntest.html
If it is stable after the default 10 pass run, and temps are safe*, you can go back to BIOS and repeat until temps are no longer safe or it fails IBT. If it fails IBT, you can either back off to the last stable multiplier and live with that, or raise the vcore a tiny bit at a time to see if that brings the OC back to stability.

* For temp monitoring with APUs, I...

clutchc

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It's only easy to OC if you don't use the software/firmware to OC. Return all your settings to default again, and then don't use that for OC'ing any more.

Go to BIOS, disable Turbo Mode if available, and raise the CPU clock multiplier one click. Save and exit. Boot to Win and run something like Intel Burn Test: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4965-intelburntest.html
If it is stable after the default 10 pass run, and temps are safe*, you can go back to BIOS and repeat until temps are no longer safe or it fails IBT. If it fails IBT, you can either back off to the last stable multiplier and live with that, or raise the vcore a tiny bit at a time to see if that brings the OC back to stability.

* For temp monitoring with APUs, I like to watch thermal margin instead. Use AMD Over Drive for that: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4645-amd-overdrive.html
Here's why I say that: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2122665/understanding-temperature-amd-cpus-apus.html
 
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