AMD APU 6800k overclocking

[burns_brock]

I'm a noob with overclocking and was wondering how much juice i can get out of the 6800k with only air cooling .What would be safe and stable yet give me a little boost

3 case fans and cooler master hyper evo

 

[photonboy]

You can Google that. There's several tutorials.

However, I should add that your DDR3 performance can throttle the GPU in the APU quite a bit if it's not fast enough.

Unlike regular dedicated cards, the APU's GPU uses some of the Sytem RAM as it's Video RAM so that's going to end up the bottleneck if it's not fast enough and overclocking will mainly only help the CPU portion. You need roughly 2133MHz DDR3 memory in Dual-Channel to avoid any bottlenecks. If it's for example 1333MHz in Dual-Channel, or 2133MHz in Single Channel you'll lose a lot of performance.

If your DDR3 memory is fairly fast then look up the tutorials.

You may also wish to consider using a dedicated video card instead (which won't use the GPU in the APU at all). An HD6670 is similar to the APU's GPU which I believe is roughly 80% the performance of an HD7750. So you'd want an HD7770 or better to have a noticeable boost (about $120).

 

[photonboy]

Update:
If you ever decide to upgrade your graphics, then for $160 the Asus GTX750Ti is an awesome card.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx750tioc2gd5

They've unlocked the overclocking potential in the drivers so I believe this card gets about 20% over stock now. If you factor in that info with THIS benchmark (the HD6670 is just below the HD5770) it works out to almost a 300% (3x) performance increase assuming no major CPU bottleneck.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7764/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-ti-and-gtx-750-review-maxwell/15

In other words, at the same quality setting some games would go from 20FPS to 60FPS.

 

[burns_brock]

and the apu would be able to run the GTX750Ti fine?

 

[photonboy]

and the apu would be able to run the GTX750Ti fine?

Yes.
With some explanation:

An APU is a CPU + GPU combined together. Unless you use an HD6670 dedicated card (or whichever is supported) in Dual Graphics (almost identical to Crossfire) you then use only the CPU portion.

The CPU part isn't too bad however it's not as good as say an i5-4670K. Thus you will have BOTTLENECKING in some games that are more dependant on the CPU.

I don't have the exact numbers but I do know some games are more GPU-bottlenecked and that CPU (of the APU) can be sufficient to NOT be a bottleneck.

Thus my recommendation is to get the best graphics card in your budget such as an Asus GTX750Ti. I'm not saying it's the best card for you, it's just an example.

Your POWER SUPPLY must also have the proper 6/8-pin PCIe connectors.