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    Can the Carrizo AMD APU FX-8800P Be Overclocked?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jpquinn, Aug 13, 2016.

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    I have an ASUS A555D (X555DG) Laptop that has the Carrizo AMD APU FX-8800P/Radeon R8. Bought it new Jan16, have both OS's Win10 64bit & Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bit running well and fine, both run rock solid on this laptop. I'd love to overclock past the set 2.1ghz, the turbo boost to occasional 3.4ghz I guess is nice, but I'd like to peg it at a constant state of 3.4ghz. My Google research and tools such as AMD Overdrive don't recognize the CPU as being something that it can work with, and AmdmsrTweaker doesn't seem to take the parameters give it, at least a stink test says no, and Taskmanager and CPU-Z show no go. I tried Prime95, but trying to figure it was a bit much, and it too seemed to not recognize the CPU/APU. So can this FX-8800P chip even be O'd? And if so, how, and then finally, by how much before thermal failure or to set-off alarm bells to cause a throttle?
     
    jpquinn, Aug 13, 2016
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