Help with mild OC on A10 5800k APU

[Manatubear]

Hello all,
I have a Asus F2A85V-PRO motherboad and a A10 5800k using the stock cooler.
The basic UEFI Bios lets me choose 3 performance settings, (power saving, balanced & optimal).
I want to OC it a bit, but the optimal setting bumps the cpu speed to 4.3, which i fear is too much for the stock cooler.
The OC Tuner in advanced settings bumps it to 4.3 too, and the GPU to 950Mhz.
Will these settings be safe, or shall i use AMD Overdrive to OC to 4.0-4.2 and use the GPU Boost in the bios to Turbo (950mhz)?
The only game (real game... not counting Facebook games, basic indies) this PC is going to run is World of Warcraft @ 1366x768 (max).
From many internet sources i have read that monitoring the real temperature of this CPU is hard, so i am a bit afraid.
(I have been away from PC gaming for 6 years, maybe the OC is not even needed to run WoW on good quality at that res... but i will only find out in Feb2014, when i can afford the subscription, i just want to prepare things before that, also if needed i can get a 6670 to dual graphics with the APU)
Thanks for reading!

 

[Jared Jensen]

Overclocking is not recommended on the stock cooler but if you set your computer to performance mode in the BIOS then you should be safe as long as you monitor the temps and make sure they don't go to high. I don't suggest getting a 6670 to pair with your APU for dual graphics. It's basically a hybrid Crossfire with all the cons and downfalls of cross firing two cards. And some games suffer really badly with this hybrid CF so it's recommended to just get a discrete graphics card that fits in your budget. I hope this helps

 

[Manatubear]

Overclocking is not recommended on the stock cooler but if you set your computer to performance mode in the BIOS then you should be safe as long as you monitor the temps and make sure they don't go to high. I don't suggest getting a 6670 to pair with your APU for dual graphics. It's basically a hybrid Crossfire with all the cons and downfalls of cross firing two cards. And some games suffer really badly with this hybrid CF so it's recommended to just get a discrete graphics card that fits in your budget. I hope this helps

I found this now:
http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-a10-5800k-trinity-desktop-apu-review_2047/18

"A10-5800K boosts up to 4200MHz right out of the box, so we were expecting to get well over that on air. With the stock CPU cooler that comes with this processor we were able to get 4300MHz with full stability and 4400MHz with a bit of throttling if the room temperature was hot and the processor was at full load."

That's probably why the performance mode boosts up to 4.3, its the max safe OC with the stock cooler.
Anyway, im going to create a Starter account for WoW so i can play free (till lvl20) and check how the normal settings behave with the game. I am framerate "blind" and high detail "blind" so medium/high setting, with framerates of 30s is more than ok for me. The only thing i truly can't cope with is screen tear.
If it doesnt perform well, its not an OC that will make a difference and in February i will get a GPU.

 

[Jared Jensen]

Yes it sounds like you have everything under control now! I hope you are satisfied with your system and getting a dedicated GPU is always better then integrated graphics.