GIGABYTE GA-F2A85X-UP4 Review

👤by Tony Le Bourne Comments 📅12-11-12
Overclocking

Overclocking the GA-F2A85X-UP4 was an interesting experience and seemed a bit tetchy at times too. I failed to get 4.5GHz stable and indeed failed to get the GPU core stable at 950MHz, but with a small bump in the base clock (from 100-108) I managed to get the final speed of 4.43GHz CPU and 912MHz GPU. There would be a performance disadvantage on two fronts at these settings, not just the CPU/APU speeds but also, due to the baseclock bump, I had to set down the speed of the memory from what would have been something like 2500MHz+ to 2300MHz. Overall this is a respectable overclock and will give significant performance gains over stock settings.

During my overclocking experiments, I couldn't help but notice the erratic baseclock at all settings including stock. The baseclock was jumping around between 98-103MHz At first I assumed it was due to the turbo which i found to be incorrect after I had turned turbo off. After updating the BIOS to the latest beta, it appeared the problem hasn't yet been solved, it would be hard to gauge if this affects performance or stability but didn't seem to pose any issues during testing.


Final Overclock settings


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