AMD A6-3620 Overclock?

[parmpreet001]

Ok so for several months I have used AMD over drive to overclock my CPU. I boosted it from 2200 Mhz to 2600 Mhz. And considering nothing fatal has happened to my computer I think it is a safe boost as the temperature and noise remains at a small level. I want to know if it safe to over clock it a bit further? Maybe to 2700 or 2800 Mhz?

Im not experienced with overclocking but my assumption is that if the CPU and PC isn't to hot and making alot of noise it is ok.

 

[digitaldoc]

http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-a6-3650-2-6ghz-llano-apu-review_1655/17

You should be able to get that CPU up to 3 GHz.

 

[Rocking Durgesh]

Overclocking is a step by Step method. Don't overclock by any software because overclocking is not the thing that can be done by software. First set the XMP memory profile enabled to set your RAM correctly. Then Go in BIOS and find the CPU clock ratio, this is the multiplier setting. It starts at a multi of A (some no.)x 100(BCLK)(normal factory settings) to give you A Gigahertz. So up it .5 at a time and boot to os and test with P95 for stability and monitor your temps. Do this for approximately 20 minutes. If it passes raise the multi another .5 and try again. You'll get to a point where either P95 won't pass or your temp will gone so high. If the temps gone high you'll have to stop and work on cooling. If P95 fails then go to the Advanced voltage section in bios and add some volts to the CPU VCore . Stay in offset and just add a bit by tapping on the "+" key and test again.
If your temp goes really high them you have to stop amd keep it to cooling. A step will arrive when your P95 never pass or temp immediately go high. Them youJane to stop overclocking and you get your extreme speed of your processor. ....

 

[parmpreet001]

It's really that simple? Thanks I will overclock the CPU in the bios I assumed the bios overclocking was way more complex than that.

 

[Redrocket90]

[strike]I have mine set at 3.5 right now and have for a couple weeks with an Arctic freezer xtreme rev 2+Silverstone case fan. I have had zero hangups and it stays below 45c on prime95. I ran it at the max 4ghz for a bit and ran passmark, but 4ghz got up to 55c+ and only gave a fraction of a % performance boost over 3.5 and actually hurt disk performance slightly. Im going to test more freq's to find the plateau. There is obviously a point on the a6 3620 where faster isnt better. [/strike]

Nevermind.... Turns out I fell for the old "empty overclock" gag. My bios tricked AMD overdrive and CPUz into thinking I actually overclocked it, but all it was doing was bumping the voltage with no actual speed change at all. My bios doesn't have AI Tweaker either, so I can't even OC off the base clock in BIOS. Just the empty OC from overdrive. Bummer...