[section_title title=”Overclocking”]OverClocking

Overclocking both the 7850K and 7700K was fairly easy. For the purpose  of this review I started with upping the core clocks to 4.5GHz on both chips. The reason for this is when benchmarking, we normally run benchmarks on our CPUs at stock and with an over clock normally around 4.5GHz. This helps us to gauge performance better and also lets us see what the chip is capable of which is always nice to know.

If you have read my previous review on the ASRock FM2A88X+ Killer Motherboard – which is what I tested both of these APUs on – you will have noticed I had trouble getting accurate temperature readings. I tried using Core Temp and Hardware monitor and neither of them would even recognize the APU, let along read its temperature. Once I noticed this I headed into the Bios to see if I could at least get a half decent reading there which just was not happening. While in the Bios and letting the APU idle I could notice the temp on the APU going up by .5c every few seconds. The temperature kept going up until it hit 95c at which time I had enough and realized I was not going to get an accurate reading.

After I had given up and trying to get an accurate temperature I set out on my goal of trying to overclock both APUs to 4.5GHz so I could run my benchmarks and continue one with the review. This was easily achieved by upping the multiplier on the APU clock and I started off using 1.5V as the maximum voltage for these APUs is 1.55V according to the Bios. This is a bit higher then I would normally set the Voltage to but as I could not get an accurate temperature reading I was not going to push these chips too far. I ran Prime95 and made sure everything was stable. After a few runs I managed to get the voltage down to 1.475v without having to configure anything else. While this was not the most pleasing result I knew it would do fine for what I needed; to run benchmarks and collect results.

 
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