Hi, I am reasonably new to pc building in general, and have nearly finished my first build. However as I am with my cars and bikes, I love the idea of making what you have better, so in short what Im wanting to do a minor overclock of my system. My setup so far, which is used for gaming and whatever the hell the missus does whilst shes on it.
CPU: A10 7850K
Mobo: GA-F2A68HMDS2
RAM: 2* 8Gb G.Skill ripjaws DDR3 2133mhz
HDD: some old 2nd hand samsung sata 2 1tb
SSD: 128gb Samsung 850 Pro
PSU: Antec 450w
Cooler: CM Seidon 120 watercooler (not yet installed, but will be tomorrow lol)
GPU: onboard so far but will be getting RX460 (budget build so not going too much better than this for now.)
Currently, the CPU has its 4ghz turbo (obviously), at very least all I want to do is have it run at this frequency all the time, and if I can get away with it 4.3 ghz. I also want to overclock in the onboard GPU to about 1ghz until i have my card installed
My current understanding is that for me to achieve this I need to up the voltage of both the CPU and the northbridge, either via the BIOS or amd overdrive. From what I can tell atm in its stock form the CPU runs 1.362 on its usual 3.7, and ups to 1.437 when on turbo, and the standard NB voltage sits at 1.137. I have done some googling and some say that the NB needs to be in the vicinity of 1.35v or so to achieve what I am after, and I can only assume that i would need to set the CPU voltage at around 1.437 if im ging for 4ghz, or potentially 1.45 if im going for 4.3. Obviously over "volting" the CPU is death, but I am not sure of its tolerences.
I have also read that I need to set my northbridge frequency to match my ram, being 2134 (as it reads in the BIOS), Presently it is on its default 1800 (and 1.6v for DRam), which i tried to up to 2100 but upon restart the system wouldnt boot and gave me an error message. I only bring this up because when I read CPUZ or speccy (or anything else) it reads as 1064mhz (apparently because its dual channel) and I am unsure how these relate to one another in terms of overclocking.
Apologies for the long post but I am only wanting clarity on my own research, I realise that each setup is different but from what I have read on other items in this forum I am sure someone will have the expertise to help me out. Cheers and looking forward to answers.
CPU: A10 7850K
Mobo: GA-F2A68HMDS2
RAM: 2* 8Gb G.Skill ripjaws DDR3 2133mhz
HDD: some old 2nd hand samsung sata 2 1tb
SSD: 128gb Samsung 850 Pro
PSU: Antec 450w
Cooler: CM Seidon 120 watercooler (not yet installed, but will be tomorrow lol)
GPU: onboard so far but will be getting RX460 (budget build so not going too much better than this for now.)
Currently, the CPU has its 4ghz turbo (obviously), at very least all I want to do is have it run at this frequency all the time, and if I can get away with it 4.3 ghz. I also want to overclock in the onboard GPU to about 1ghz until i have my card installed
My current understanding is that for me to achieve this I need to up the voltage of both the CPU and the northbridge, either via the BIOS or amd overdrive. From what I can tell atm in its stock form the CPU runs 1.362 on its usual 3.7, and ups to 1.437 when on turbo, and the standard NB voltage sits at 1.137. I have done some googling and some say that the NB needs to be in the vicinity of 1.35v or so to achieve what I am after, and I can only assume that i would need to set the CPU voltage at around 1.437 if im ging for 4ghz, or potentially 1.45 if im going for 4.3. Obviously over "volting" the CPU is death, but I am not sure of its tolerences.
I have also read that I need to set my northbridge frequency to match my ram, being 2134 (as it reads in the BIOS), Presently it is on its default 1800 (and 1.6v for DRam), which i tried to up to 2100 but upon restart the system wouldnt boot and gave me an error message. I only bring this up because when I read CPUZ or speccy (or anything else) it reads as 1064mhz (apparently because its dual channel) and I am unsure how these relate to one another in terms of overclocking.
Apologies for the long post but I am only wanting clarity on my own research, I realise that each setup is different but from what I have read on other items in this forum I am sure someone will have the expertise to help me out. Cheers and looking forward to answers.