Overclocking Help For A Noob [A10-5800K]

[Woodi101]

I have the A10 5800k processor (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113280) and I have also installed an HD Radeon 7770. Is there anyway to turn the graphics portion of the APU off? Should I overclock the CPU after turning it off since it will be doing less processing because I have a discrete graphics card?

My last question is it possible to overclock this ram or GPU?(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231550)
(http://www.bestbuy.com/site/XFX---Ultra-Overclock-Edition-Radeon-HD-7770-1GB-DDR5-PCI-Express-3.0-Graphics-Card/5619352.p?id=1218677497053&skuId=5619352)
I currently have the RAM at 1866. Would OCing the RAM give any noticeable performance increase?
and is it possible to OC a GPU?

Thanks for the help

 

[BadPeteNo]

I'll answer the general stuff, someone else can help with the rest.

First, in theory, all ram and all gpu's can be overclocked.

The easy noob way to overclock the gpu is with the amd overdrive utility built into catalyst control center. I've had great results with it. It also has a CPU tuner that I don't like so much.

I'm not sure of this, but if APU's work like motherboards with integrated graphics, plugging in a video card turns off the integrated automatically. This is a guess, but I don't think the part that handles video starts doing other things if it's turned off. You'd probably generate less heat though. If so, that would give you more overclocking head room.

ram and cpu can be overclocked separately by increasing their multipliers or together by increasing the front side bus (sometimes referred to in bios as the CPU frequency, should be in the ball park of 200 or so to start).

Read read read before trying anything past the AMD graphics overdrive.

 

[Brysaurus]

^ he is right your computer will automatically pick the strongest gpu in your case your 7770

 

[BadPeteNo]

One more thought: An APU paired with a dual graphics compatible card CAN be used at the same time as integrated. Your card is not dual graphics compatible, so it's a mute point. But, if you ever find yourself with a 6770 on hand...