Overclocking AMD A10-5800k

[sk8ermanblue]

rescently I built my wife a computer with the AMD A10 5800k and she mostly surfs the internet and plays world of warcraft. she is wanting to get into overclocking and i know the processor is unlocked but i dont have any experience with these chips. the last thing i did a real overclock on was 4 years ago with AMD phenom ii x4 965BE and got it up to about 4.4 GHZ on  early sealed loop style coolers. hers is on a corsair H60 in push pull BTW.

[IVIeLt]

I'm running 4.3 on the stock cooler with my A10 so I'ld say with a proper cooler like a H60 you'll be able to push it even further!

 

Pretty simple to overclock it, Play around with the base clock and see what you can get stable out of that then push the multiplier up one unit at a time, run prime 95 to stress test it and see what stability you can get. Basically play around until you find an overclock that your comfortable of being stable enough and not have the chip run to hot.

[CaseySean01]

There is literally no difference between the processor you overclocked and the one your wife is using right now. It's an unlocked processor, so push it as far as you can without experiencing crashes. The above comment recommends Prime95 as stress testing - I completely agree. Play with voltage settings, the multiplier and see what temps you get using a temperature monitoring program. I suggest using liquid cooling when overclocking, but AMD has very good stock coolers. You'll be able to overclock it on even those. I recommend running it up to 4.0-4.2GHz.

[Chevaishr]

if u want a boost in gaming performance i would recommend overclocking the gpu also.

[DyGr00339]

if u want a boost in gaming performance i would recommend overclocking the gpu also.

How?

[IVIeLt]

How?

 

GPU can be overclocked with MSI Afterburner etc, I'm running an asus board so I put AI Suite 2 on it and used the auto overclocking utility in it, went from 800Mhz to 950Mhz with the push of a button and 100 percent stable.

 

Also with an APU make sure your running 1866Mhz ram, the gpu inside the chip shares the system ram with the cpu and will typically see a 10-15 percent performance boost just from running quicker ram. On top of the boost you get from overclocking the gpu.