How to overclock AMD A10 7850K to 4.7 Ghz

[nittinn]

I've a rig with specs-
Spec Alpha Cabinet
Corsair CX600 power supply
Gigabyte G1 sniper A88X motherboard
AMD A10-7850K overclocked on board 4.0 GHz
Cooler Master SEIDON 120V liquid cooling
Kingston UV240 GB ssd
WD blue 500GB hdd
ADATA XPG 8GB Ram
3 corsair red led cooling fan
Overclocked MSI Armor GTX1060 6 GB

it's already overclocked to 4.0 but with no voltage pushes, i just put volatge to standard.. i'm new to this..
Please Help me step by step how to overclock my A10 to 4.7 GHz on GIGABYTE G1 SNIPER A88x Motherboard from bios. means how to set voltage, how much voltage to set means everything...
Thank A Lot..

 

[fry178]

saying you want to oc a cpu to a certain freq is very difficult, as it depends on multiple things.

the psu is a reliable one, but i would recommend something better when ocing.
same for cooling, as the 120 might not be enough to keep temps low.

is the LC mounted as exhaust or intake? can you mount another fan on it, to improve performance?


you can google things like avg clocks/voltage that can be reach with yours (stepping??).
but almost no 2 cpus are the same.
mainly try to go with the highest clocks you can get, without adding (lots of) voltage (more heat).

i could do 4.4 on my 3770k without added V, but needed almost the max allowed for that cpu to boot above 4.7.
so running at 4.4, maybe 4.5-4.6 (and little V added) would make more sense than trying to go for max clock.

i havent done any tweaking on amd lately, so i would look into fx ocing guides from places like guru3d/tomshardware/overclock.net/extremesystems.org


something short, to get an idea.:
might have possibly missed something, your mileage may vary, and no guarantee you wont fry your hardware ;-)

make sure you have the newest bios.
make sure you have a good psu, and its not too old.
dl prime95 and something like aida64 to monitor temps/volt.
get trueimage (acronis. trial will do) and do a full image of OS to another drive, so you can restore it in case it gets messed up (rare).
disconnect all drives/things not needed, just to be safe.
reboot and load bios defaults. save. reboot. "optimize" bios to match your use/hardware.
e.g. turn on ahci/fan control/on board features etc.
set all entries for cpu/ram/chip/vrm/tdp/temp (clocks/volt) to reg/norm (or auto) if you dont know the meaning of it.
avoid having to use auto (clocks/volt), since it will sometimes allow for mild automatic oc, manufacturers use it to gain points when boards get reviewed.

boot win and run prime95 (make sure all cores 100%) for 24h (nothing else, dont use pc if possible) to make sure stock/baseline settings are actually stable.
if not, try to get it stable before starting with oc.

raise multi on cpu and see how high you can get and it still boots, then run prime95.
if it stops within a few min, add voltage. less than 30min before it stops, and most likely caused by different max clocks for the different cores.
run prime95.
after you found the max clock you can get, save as profile/write down settings...
i do run a full memtest86/86+, to make sure oc didnt affect ram stability.