Overclocking A8 6500 CPU

[wolly]

Hi can I overclock the CPU A8 6500? If not how can I increase the multiplier to 39 or 40? I tried using AMD OVERDRIVE but the multiplier remains at 35 and it won't change do I have to use the BIOS?
My PC is HP 705 G1 .How can I change the frequency to 39 40?

 

[Canned Noodles]

The 6500 is a locked cpu - the multiplier cannot be raised.

 

[LabRat 891]

No multplier OCing, but (IIRC) *some* of those older chips did have configurable TDP.

Speaking from experience though, it's not worth it. The cooling is already too little for 100% sustained load.
Even the lowest-line Ryzen APU 'cheapie' will outperform the old bulldozer-derived APUs.

 

[damric]

if you are lucky you might be able to get your base clock up by about 4%.

I can't remember if those start with 100 or 200 MHz base clock, but either way it's not going to give you much.

 

[DaemonForce]

You will continue asking questions like this about locked CPUs and the answer will continue to be no. AMD Overdrive was a one-touch overclocking technology that shipped with my 790GX chipset featured board, the Asus M4A78T-E. I outfitted it with a Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition (as in Unlocked). The A8-6500 is a later generation low power APU with a Radeon HD 8570D graphics. It has decent performance at 720p while somehow getting bodied by the nearest 480p card in the lineup, a GeForce GT 430. These are all wildly behind any semi-modern entry performers that shipped a year after that generation.

There is a fair chance that any alternative overclocking like bumping BCLK or raising the memory frequency will change the IGP performance and stability, which you probably don't want.

Looks like a really high value chip too. Keeps up with a Phenom II X4 955 at half the power.

I'm not going to ask what you're doing with this because it was definitely picked out by some OEM squeezing pennies if that's what was seriously offered in 2013. You might be able to get away with making it an art and email workstation with a bunch of Office and other editing software but I'm not sure how well that would handle any modern gaming outside of retro emulation. Would make for a decent network controller with additional hardware and it looks like Nested Page Tables is a + so Hyper-V server might be in its future. It's definitely way more capable than my iSCSI+Samba seedbox by exactly 10x.

That might be a bit of a problem though. PCI-E g2 is gonna hurt. Good luck with that. I hope the board doesn't completely suck because most of these from that era tend to skimp on something important.


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Like software thermal controls. Great. Is it a jet engine? Probably.

 

[wolly]

I adjusted the frequency with QuickCPU! Why didn't you tell me from the first time that I can raise the frequency of the CPU to 39-41?

 

[Toothless]

I adjusted the frequency with QuickCPU! Why didn't you tell me from the first time that I can raise the frequency of the CPU to 39-41?

4.1ghz is the normal turbo of that chip.. you didn't overclock anything.

 

[wolly]

4.1ghz is the normal turbo of that chip.. you didn't overclock anything.

so i turbo boost it?

 

[Toothless]

so i turbo boost it?

You basically made it ignore turbo timers, which even that 200mhz bump isn't going to help a whole lot with how weak that chip is to begin with.