TPU's AMD APU Owners Club

Medallish · Feb 12, 2014

Had to update my profile, appearently the last time I did I was still rocking a Phenom II. Anyway my main PC with the FX-8350 is currently down as I'm building watercooling on it, but I recently made this nice little substitute:

GPU-Z
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/6s6qq/

CPU-Z
http://valid.canardpc.com/lc0jbh

And here we have the screenshot, I had to use Teamviewer as I'm not home at this moment, hence why you see the onscreen keyboard, appearently there's no screenshot method in Teamviewer.

Everything packed into a nice Lian-Li PC-TU200B case, the APU is capable of running full speed, but for the sake of keeping temperatures slightly down I changed the cTDP to 65W, since I'm mainly playing BF4 on it with Mantle I haven't noticed much, if any hit on performance. All the specs are in my "system spec" on my profile

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_JP_ · Feb 13, 2014

For some reason, in that board, the TPM header is where the USB 3.0 header should be and vice-versa.
Overall, nice layout. And staying in Gigabyte tradition, low amount of fan headers (especially 4-pin) on AMD boards.
Those VRMs could use a heatsink...but then again, it's not an OC-tought board...

emissary42 · Feb 14, 2014

A mosfet cooler would have been nice, but i am quite happy that it at least had a cooler on the chipset in place. It is not unheard of, that boards like this get send out completely naked *G*

Also the mosfets don't get too hot on stock settings. It probably helps, the cpu cooler provides plenty of airflow for them.

_JP_ · Feb 16, 2014

Yes, like I said, that board wasn't thought for OC'ing, so for non-K APUs it should do just fine without the VRM heatsink.
Mine has it, but I'm not using the stock cooler. Still, I have plenty of fans shoving air around that area. Haven't spotted throttling under load so far. Let's see if it stays this way by the time summer is here.

_JP_ · Jun 15, 2014

Summer's here! And high temps too! So I underclocked my chip.
And while doing so I found out something interesting (that I had never experienced before or read about it). If I set the multi below 34x, Windows will "forget" about lowering clocks to idle values (C'n'Q enabled). (YMMV)
The options in the "Power Options" advanced menu will simply disappear, for all profiles.
I noticed this because temps weren't dropping while the computer was doing nothing and CPU-Z/HWiNFO pretty much confirmed my assumptions, clocks weren't going down. (Although CPU-Z reported Vcore drops, HWiNFO didn't)
I had underclocked, initially, to 3.2GHz.
I tried to reset C'n'Q, along with reboots, further underclocking down to 3GHz (+Vcore adjustments), editing the registry...nothing. Until I found, in the tubes, someone that mentioned his/hers OS reacted the same way if the multi on his/hers PII x4 was set above a certain value (don't recall how much). So I thought about setting mine close to stock and see what happened. 34x worked.
Afterwards I tried to investigate this further and found out that one of the P-states (P1, in fact) is set at 3.2GHz (should have checked this first). This might have had something to do with it. I assume Windows might have misinterpreted UEFI readings and considered it to be a conflict. I guess the resolution was to disable/ignore idle clocks/P-states, for safety maybe.

Current settings: 3.4GHz @ 1.2875v.

agent00skid · Jun 15, 2014

3,4GHz@1,2875v? :O

I have gotten an A10-7850K since I last posted anything here. And a Athlon 5350 too.

The A10-7850K has been a bit of a difficult thing, but I think I've gotten it to a fairly good point. Now I''m just waiting for cooler weather to make some more serious overclocking.

Toothless · Jun 15, 2014

Does a A6-3420m count as being in the club?

_JP_ · Jun 16, 2014

agent00skid said:
3,4GHz@1,2875v? :O

What's wrong? I'm just trying to reduce the heat. With the room hitting 30ºC it's hard to keep this think under limits.
Xigmatek states the sd963 is rated at 130W, but it seems it would need the 2nd fan, which I don't have. (also, there must be some contact issues or something... :\ )

agent00skid said:
I have gotten an A10-7850K since I last posted anything here. And a Athlon 5350 too.
The A10-7850K has been a bit of a difficult thing, but I think I've gotten it to a fairly good point. Now I''m just waiting for cooler weather to make some more serious overclocking.

Neat. How's that HSA working out for you?

Lightbulbie said:
Does a A6-3420m count as being in the club?

If it looks like an APU, walks like an APU and quacks like an APU...

Toothless · Jun 17, 2014

So is it bad that I was able to OC my 3420m to 2.4ghz and keep it stable at 1.3v?

agent00skid · Jun 17, 2014

_JP_ said:
What's wrong? I'm just trying to reduce the heat. With the room hitting 30ºC it's hard to keep this think under limits.
Xigmatek states the sd963 is rated at 130W, but it seems it would need the 2nd fan, which I don't have.

It just seems like a high voltage for that speed.

_JP_ said:
Neat. How's that HSA working out for you?

Haven't really tested anything that uses it.

_JP_ · Jun 17, 2014

agent00skid said:
It just seems like a high voltage for that speed.

It is a bit, not that much. But I changed the multi 1st and was going for vcore next, if I hadn't bumped into that odd discovery.
I gave it just a small cut, from what I had at 4GHz. I was also busy with work, so didn't have the time to tweak it right.

agent00skid · Jun 20, 2014

Lightbulbie said:
So is it bad that I was able to OC my 3420m to 2.4ghz and keep it stable at 1.3v?

My A6-3500 did 2,4GHz at 1,1v... That was good times.

Also going to post some more from my A10-7850K after the current round of stability testing.

_JP_ · Jun 21, 2014

agent00skid said:
My A6-3500 did 2,4GHz at 1,1v... That was good times.

Well, according to the details of mine, one of the p-states is 2.4GHz at 1.08v. Not sure how much time it stays at that spot, but I haven't got instabilities to report.

agent00skid · Jun 21, 2014

_JP_ said:
Well, according to the details of mine, one of the p-states is 2.4GHz at 1.08v. Not sure how much time it stays at that spot, but I haven't got instabilities to report.

There's a bit of a difference between Llano and Trinity. But low voltage is always nice.

My A10-7850K runs 4,2GHz@1,325v. The jump to 4,3GHz does unfortunately require at least 1,375v

. Haven't tested it enough to be entirely sure that it's stable, but it seems to be.

_JP_ · Jun 22, 2014

agent00skid said:
There's a bit of a difference between Llano and Trinity. But low voltage is always nice.

True and also true.
(I missed the part where that was a Llano)

agent00skid · Jun 22, 2014

The current settings on my desktop machine.

Durvelle27 · Jun 24, 2014

How its hanging

agent00skid · Jul 8, 2014

After some more testing of clocks and voltages, I think I'm going to leave my A10-7850K at 4,2GHz CPU and 800MHz iGPU plus 1,8GHz NB.
I don't know why, but the iGPU and NB just don't want to overclock much. The iGPU of my last APU was just as hopeless. Seems I get all the bad iGPUs.

Finally have clock and voltage control on my Athlon 5350 though, so am doing some testing on that. Don't have Windows on it though, so can't really bench much.

SirSempy6 · Aug 5, 2014

Hey guys, got me a Sempron 2650 AM1 APU, runs all my 1080p videos and some light gaming here and there

Melvis · Feb 7, 2016

Hey has anyone here know of any program or has any luck in overclocking there Smaller APUs? I want to OC my E2-1800 cpu and or RAM couse i cant do it in the BIOS it seems.

xorbe · Feb 7, 2016

xorbe said:
Trinity A8-5500 + ASRock FM2A85X-ITX ... I was thinking maybe to switch up to A10-6800K

Yeah, upgraded to Richland A10-6700 a long while back, and sold the A8-5500. Now I'd like to upgrade to the latest carrizo/excavator if they ever get around to making the higher end desktop APUs. But that means getting a new motherboard for FM2+ platform ...

Toothless · Feb 7, 2016

I should see about taking my laptop apart, slapping a rigged cooler onto it, and benchmarking that sucker to see how far it'll OC. I used to be able to get it from 1.5ghz stock to 2.6ghz with thermals being the only wall.

cdawall · Feb 7, 2016

Melvis said:
Hey has anyone here know of any program or has any luck in overclocking there Smaller APUs? I want to OC my E2-1800 cpu and or RAM couse i cant do it in the BIOS it seems.

Possibly turionpowercontrol

Thefumigator · Feb 9, 2016

Here's mine

cdawall · Mar 4, 2016

Oh and can I join?

I have two of these both the exact same settings, one in an Antec ISK100 the other a 110.

and I have one of these.

System Name	Main Rig
Processor	Ryzen 7 1800X@4.1GHz
Motherboard	MSI X370 Titanium
Cooling	Custom watercooling with 2x480 rads
Memory	2x8GB Corsair LED memory 3200MHz
Video Card(s)	Fury X
Display(s)	Asus MG279Q & iiyama B2888UHSU
Case	Corsair 900D Obsidian
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair 1200W
Software	Windows 10

System Name	LenovoⓇ ThinkPad™ T430
Processor	IntelⓇ Core™ i5-3210M processor (2 cores, 2.50GHz, 3MB cache), Intel Turbo Boost™ 2.0 (3.10GHz), HT™
Motherboard	Lenovo 2344 (Mobile Intel QM77 Express Chipset)
Cooling	Single-pipe heatsink + Delta fan
Memory	2x 8GB KingstonⓇ HyperX™ Impact 2133MHz DDR3L SO-DIMM
Video Card(s)	Intel HD Graphics™ 4000 (GPU clk: 1100MHz, vRAM clk: 1066MHz)
Storage	SamsungⓇ 860 EVO mSATA (250GB) + 850 EVO (500GB) SATA
Display(s)	14.0" (355mm) HD (1366x768) color, anti-glare, LED backlight, 200 nits, 16:9 aspect ratio, 300:1 co
Case	ThinkPad Roll Cage (one-piece magnesium frame)
Audio Device(s)	HD Audio, RealtekⓇ ALC3202 codec, DolbyⓇ Advanced Audio™ v2 / stereo speakers, 1W x 2
Power Supply	ThinkPad 65W AC Adapter + ThinkPad Battery 70++ (9-cell)
Mouse	TrackPointⓇ pointing device + UltraNav™, wide touchpad below keyboard + ThinkLight™
Keyboard	6-row, 84-key, ThinkVantage button, spill-resistant, multimedia Fn keys, LED backlight (PT Layout)
Software	MicrosoftⓇ WindowsⓇ 10 x86-64 (22H2)

System Name	Neverending Story
Processor	7700X / 4790K / 4670K / G3258 / 3770K / 8750 / 6800K / 5800K / 3870K / QX6700 / 6500K / 5750M
Motherboard	X670H / Z97X-SOCF / Z77X-UP5 / Z77CROWN-U1D / F2A88X-UP4 / A75-UD4H / IX48-GT3 / BlackOps / FS1r2A75
Cooling	HR-22 / Silver Arrow IB-E / Archon SB-E / Mega Shadow / TRUE-Black
Memory	Corsair Dominator GT / GTX / Platinum, G.SKILL Flare / Perfect Storm / Pi / Trident (X/Z), OCZ Blade
Video Card(s)	mostly obscure stuff
Case	Lancool / Silverstone / Thermaltake / Cubitek
Audio Device(s)	-
Power Supply	80plus Platinum
Software	-
Benchmark Scores	-

System Name	LenovoⓇ ThinkPad™ T430
Processor	IntelⓇ Core™ i5-3210M processor (2 cores, 2.50GHz, 3MB cache), Intel Turbo Boost™ 2.0 (3.10GHz), HT™
Motherboard	Lenovo 2344 (Mobile Intel QM77 Express Chipset)
Cooling	Single-pipe heatsink + Delta fan
Memory	2x 8GB KingstonⓇ HyperX™ Impact 2133MHz DDR3L SO-DIMM
Video Card(s)	Intel HD Graphics™ 4000 (GPU clk: 1100MHz, vRAM clk: 1066MHz)
Storage	SamsungⓇ 860 EVO mSATA (250GB) + 850 EVO (500GB) SATA
Display(s)	14.0" (355mm) HD (1366x768) color, anti-glare, LED backlight, 200 nits, 16:9 aspect ratio, 300:1 co
Case	ThinkPad Roll Cage (one-piece magnesium frame)
Audio Device(s)	HD Audio, RealtekⓇ ALC3202 codec, DolbyⓇ Advanced Audio™ v2 / stereo speakers, 1W x 2
Power Supply	ThinkPad 65W AC Adapter + ThinkPad Battery 70++ (9-cell)
Mouse	TrackPointⓇ pointing device + UltraNav™, wide touchpad below keyboard + ThinkLight™
Keyboard	6-row, 84-key, ThinkVantage button, spill-resistant, multimedia Fn keys, LED backlight (PT Layout)
Software	MicrosoftⓇ WindowsⓇ 10 x86-64 (22H2)

System Name	LenovoⓇ ThinkPad™ T430
Processor	IntelⓇ Core™ i5-3210M processor (2 cores, 2.50GHz, 3MB cache), Intel Turbo Boost™ 2.0 (3.10GHz), HT™
Motherboard	Lenovo 2344 (Mobile Intel QM77 Express Chipset)
Cooling	Single-pipe heatsink + Delta fan
Memory	2x 8GB KingstonⓇ HyperX™ Impact 2133MHz DDR3L SO-DIMM
Video Card(s)	Intel HD Graphics™ 4000 (GPU clk: 1100MHz, vRAM clk: 1066MHz)
Storage	SamsungⓇ 860 EVO mSATA (250GB) + 850 EVO (500GB) SATA
Display(s)	14.0" (355mm) HD (1366x768) color, anti-glare, LED backlight, 200 nits, 16:9 aspect ratio, 300:1 co
Case	ThinkPad Roll Cage (one-piece magnesium frame)
Audio Device(s)	HD Audio, RealtekⓇ ALC3202 codec, DolbyⓇ Advanced Audio™ v2 / stereo speakers, 1W x 2
Power Supply	ThinkPad 65W AC Adapter + ThinkPad Battery 70++ (9-cell)
Mouse	TrackPointⓇ pointing device + UltraNav™, wide touchpad below keyboard + ThinkLight™
Keyboard	6-row, 84-key, ThinkVantage button, spill-resistant, multimedia Fn keys, LED backlight (PT Layout)
Software	MicrosoftⓇ WindowsⓇ 10 x86-64 (22H2)

TPU's AMD APU Owners Club

Medallish

_JP_

emissary42

_JP_

_JP_

agent00skid

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

_JP_

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

agent00skid

_JP_

agent00skid

_JP_

agent00skid

_JP_

agent00skid

Durvelle27

Moderator

agent00skid

SirSempy6

Melvis

xorbe

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

cdawall

where the hell are my stars

Thefumigator

cdawall

where the hell are my stars

System Name	Waterfall \| xe
Processor	Core i3-12100F \| i5-1240P
Motherboard	Gigabyte B660M-DS3H \| HP laptop
Cooling	Custom Watercooling \| Stock laptop
Memory	2*16GB \| 16GB DDR4
Video Card(s)	RX 5700 with WC blocks \| Iris Xe
Storage	Intel 660 1TB + Crucial BX100 500GB \| 1TB SSD
Display(s)	U24E850R+U2515H \| Internal 16"
Case	Be Quiet! Dark Base 900 \| Laptop
Audio Device(s)	Audio 2 DJ + Xenyx Q802USB \| Realtek
Power Supply	Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 750W \| 65W USB-C Power brick
Mouse	Logitech M330
Keyboard	Logitech G610 Orion Brown \| Laptop
Software	Gentoo + Windows 10 Pro \| Gentoo

System Name	Veral
Processor	7800x3D
Motherboard	x670e Asus Crosshair Hero
Cooling	Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO
Memory	2x24 Klevv Cras V RGB
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil
Storage	Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB
Display(s)	Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx, 2x AOC 2425W, AOC I1601FWUX
Case	Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2
Audio Device(s)	Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550
Power Supply	Corsair HX850
Mouse	Corsair Harpoon
Keyboard	Corsair K55
VR HMD	HP Reverb G2
Software	Windows 11 Professional
Benchmark Scores	PEBCAK

System Name	Black Prometheus
Processor	\|
Cooling	Thermalright PA120 SE \|
Storage	Sandisk X300 512GB + WD Black 6TB+WD Black 6TB
Display(s)	LG Nanocell85 49" 4K 120Hz + ACER AOPEN 34" 3440x1440 144Hz
Case	DeepCool Matrexx 55 V3 w/ 6x120mm Intake + 3x120mm Exhaust
Audio Device(s)	LG Dolby Atmos 5.1
Mouse	Logitech Trackman
Keyboard	Logitech K350
Software	Windows 10 EDU x64

System Name	Sempy
Processor	AMD Sempron 2650
Motherboard	Asrock AM1B-M
Cooling	Stock
Memory	4GB DDR3
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon 8240 512mb
Storage	WD Blue 1TB
Power Supply	Corsair VS350
Software	Windows 8.1 64

System Name	Night Rider \| Mini LAN PC \| Workhorse
Processor	AMD R7 5800X3D \| Ryzen 1600X \| i7 970
Motherboard	MSi AM4 Pro Carbon \| GA- \| Gigabyte EX58-UD5
Cooling	Noctua U9S Twin Fan\| Stock Cooler, Copper Core)\| Big shairkan B
Memory	2x8GB DDR4 G.Skill Ripjaws 3600MHz\| 2x8GB Corsair 3000 \| 6x2GB DDR3 1300 Corsair
Video Card(s)	MSI AMD 6750XT \| 6500XT \| MSI RX 580 8GB
Storage	1TB WD Black NVME / 250GB SSD /2TB WD Black \| 500GB SSD WD, 2x1TB, 1x750 \| WD 500 SSD/Seagate 320
Display(s)	LG 27" 1440P\| Samsung 20" S20C300L/DELL 15" \| 22" DELL/19"DELL
Case	LIAN LI PC-18 \| Mini ATX Case (custom) \| Atrix C4 9001
Audio Device(s)	Onboard \| Onbaord \| Onboard
Power Supply	Silverstone 850 \| Silverstone Mini 450W \| Corsair CX-750
Mouse	Coolermaster Pro \| Rapoo V900 \| Gigabyte 6850X
Keyboard	MAX Keyboard Nighthawk X8 \| Creative Fatal1ty eluminx \| Some POS Logitech
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64 \| Windows 10 Pro 64 \| Windows 7 Pro 64/Windows 10 Home

System Name	msdos
Processor	8086
Motherboard	mainboard
Cooling	passive
Memory	640KB + 384KB extended
Video Card(s)	EGA
Storage	5.25"
Display(s)	80x25
Case	plastic
Audio Device(s)	modchip
Power Supply	45 watts
Mouse	serial
Keyboard	yes
Software	disk commander
Benchmark Scores	still running

System Name	Moving into the mobile space
Processor	7940HS
Motherboard	HP trash
Cooling	HP trash
Memory	2x8GB
Video Card(s)	4070 mobile
Storage	512GB+2TB NVME
Display(s)	some 165hz thing that isn't as nice as it sounded

System Name	Epsilon
Processor	A12-9800E 35watts
Motherboard	MSI Grenade AM4
Cooling	Stock
Memory	2x4GB DDR4 2400 Kingston Hyper X
Video Card(s)	Radeon R7 (IGP / APU)
Storage	Samsung Spinpoint F1
Display(s)	AOC 29" Ultra wide
Case	Generic
Power Supply	Antec Earthwatts 380w
Software	Windows 10