Overclocking

Overclocking was way more fruitful than I ever expected. I managed to boot into Windows with 4900 MHz on the CPU portion of my APU without any issues and was able to run benchmarks for a bit before APU heat became an issue. I might have been able to get more with better cooling, but was, at the same time, not so lucky in getting such high raw speed on other boards. Like the stock operation, this is 200 MHz higher than expected, and these speed reports are apparently not false.


Here's a screenshot of a SuperPi32m run. I know it's not a lot of load, but it took nineteen minutes and is not a suicide screenshot. Full CPU load resulted in crashes, but that is to be expected with the high voltage I'm pushed through my chip. Let me tell you, with these chips being as inexpensive as they are, I'm not afraid to juice them up, especially to such results.

I couldn't get the upper ram options to work, and I tried a bunch of different high-performance ram that has worked with other boards. There was also no 2400 MHz option, which may have held it back. I couldn't get any sort of iGPU overclock, not even by 5 MHz, so there's definitely some room for improvements in the BIOS when it comes to overclocking. This is possibly due to the hybrid VRM design, but that's beyond my scope of testing.