AMD A8-6500 CPU Overclock

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Morning all, i have a quick NOOB question for you,

I have water cooled my AMD A8-6500 CPU with Cooler Master Seidon 120V

the next process i wanted to take was to overclock my CPU, can this be achieved with the AMD A8?

I current have the turbo maxed out & its running at 3.9Hz (just)

or would i be a lot better of by purchasing the Kaveri Quad-Core A10-7850K as the motherboard socket is FM2+

Thank you for your time
 
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Its a locked chip so the only way to over clock is via the fsb - you can get good results with this but it also affects ram,PCI,& PCI express speeds so stability can be an issue .
Are you using the inbuilt graphics??
Also what speed ram are you running as you'll need to drop the clocks a tier before upping the fsb.
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Its a locked chip so the only way to over clock is via the fsb - you can get good results with this but it also affects ram,PCI,& PCI express speeds so stability can be an issue .
Are you using the inbuilt graphics??
Also what speed ram are you running as you'll need to drop the clocks a tier before upping the fsb.
 
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About OC locked FM2 CPU primary trick is bump FSB to 135Mhz and thx to this you avoid PCI instability, secondary trick you need turn off AHCI mode in hdd bios settings and run IDE mode.
In addition you must decrease standard CPU multi avoid to high OC example 135x 32 or even x 34 :)
And bump Vcore - Standard V + Offset around 1.4 V- 1.5V depends to silicon :)

On my mobo I ruining Fsb 140Mhz :)
 
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Thanks for the quick reply i current have 6GB DDR3 @ PC3-12800 (DDR3-1600) (this can be increased) I am sure the MOBO can support PC3-14400 (DDR3-1800) as well (my knowledge on RAM is a little sketchy to be honest)

my graphics card is - Sapphire R9 290x toxic

Thanks again
 
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If you have Already GPU buying A10-7850k is waste off money better to buy X4 860K this this same CPU but without off iGPU
But first try OC, after OC maybe you will do not need buy new CPU :)
And this rams slow down this CPU your CPU will like to have 1866Mhz
X4 860k will love to have 2133Mhz but check first if you mobo support it:)

You can try also OC rams to 1866Mhz :)
 
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I will try to OC and let you know, do you have any guides that will help me with the OC you can point me towards?

My MOBO is in the link below (not the best i know)

http://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c04293944

From this im guessing it can only support PC3-14400 (DDR3-1800) @ best?

so looks like i could only run the 1866Mhz ram & not the 2133Mhz without upgrading the MOBO?

thanks
 
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excuse me for being a novice, im a little confused to as what you mean here? could you explain a little better please 🙁

if i was to buy a new board (in the near future) what would be the best to look at?
 
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^ the board being fm2+ in theory should support any fm2+ chip - the best performance & pricewise being the 860k.
However because its solely made by MSI for Hewlett Packard no new bios revisions have been produced to allow it to run these.
I personally think this is because HP would rather you buy a whole new PC from them rather than be able to upgrade it substantially.

Regarding a replacement motherboard ,thare are too many to choose from - depends entirely on your budget.


 
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Thank you, i understand what you mean now, before i thought you was refuring to the RAM not the CPU, im guessing a new MOBO is in order then i would probably have around 150GBP to play with if you could possibly point in the right direction, im guessing then i would have to buy a new CPU so again would probably have around 150 to play with,

thanks
 
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So you're saying in total you have £300 to play around with???
If this is correct then you would honestly be better putting that HP computer back to its stock build - I am assuming you still have the old cooler & PSU knocking about??
Selling it & rebuilding from scratch.
The main reason being that if you change the motherboard there's a 99% likelihood of having to pay for a new copy of windows anyway - the installed one will be tied to the existing motherboard.

 
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well probably a little more than 300 but I am just trying to keep it reasonable, now that I understand I am basically buying a new computer. I can always get a version of windows that isn't really a problem....

in the mean time do you think that i will be able to over-clock my processor at all? even if it is just a little?

thanks
 
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