Question AMD Overdrive crash on my A8 7650K

[shadowreaverX]

I've been using AMD Overdrive for almost five years, and during that time I've always overclocked my AMD A8 7650K. However, after formatting my disk and downloading AMD Overdrive again, it started to crash every time I entered a value for the clock, and I'm not sure what to do. ( I was able to overlock it by 4.2 ghz and 1.475 V )

I also attempted to update my drivers and bios, but it was no help.

specs

CPU: AMD A8 7650K APU
MOBO: gigabyte f2a68hm-s1
Ram: 12GB
SSD: 128GB PNY
HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda
PSU: cooler master 650w bronze

 

[CountMike]

I've been using AMD Overdrive for almost five years, and during that time I've always overclocked my AMD A8 7650K. However, after formatting my disk and downloading AMD Overdrive again, it started to crash every time I entered a value for the clock, and I'm not sure what to do. ( I was able to overlock it by 4.2 ghz and 1.475 V )

I also attempted to update my drivers and bios, but it was no help.

specs

CPU: AMD A8 7650K APU
MOBO: gigabyte f2a68hm-s1
Ram: 12GB
SSD: 128GB PNY
HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda
PSU: cooler master 650w bronze

Which Windows.W7 I presume? Is it fully updated ?

 

[Misgar]

Many people on this forum recommend overclocking in the BIOS, not in AMD Overdrive which tends to apply more voltage than necessary.

If you've been overclocking the CPU for 5 years, electro migration may have taken its toll and degradation has set in.

I manually overclocked an Athlon II X4 620 from 2.6GHz (stock) to 3.25GHz for roughly the same length of time, but eventually it started to generate faults, so I reduced the overclock back to stock. It was a friend's PC and they preferred stability to speed.

Just accept the days of overclocking your 7650K at 4.2GHz may be over. Try 4.0GHz, run a stress test and if that doesn't work, 3.8GHz all core.

I assume you're running Windows 10?

 

[shadowreaverX]

Which Windows.W7 I presume? Is it fully updated ?

Right now Im using Windows 10 pro Latest version