I'm fairly new to the overclock party, so I've just been using OC Genie II. I've replaced parts in older PCs before, my Dad forced me as a kid, because he didnt want to do it or waste money at a repair guy, he just sat the tower infront of me and said "have at it, you have until supper time," but I'm still a newbie, I just know the basics, stay grounded and don't force anything.
I have a AMD A6-3650 APU (2.6ghz) with Radeon HD 6530D, and MSI A75MA-G55 motherboard, with G.Skill Ares 2 x 8GB F3-1866C10D-16GAB. I replaced the 2 x 4GB I had in there, an Antec Kuhler H20 620 CPU cooler and a Coolmax ZU series 700w PSU.
The motherboard comes with something called OC Genie II, it says "with the press of a button" it will automatically overclock your PC to a safe clock. Before I changed anything it would clock at 2860MHz, I set everything to auto except the CPU, but 2.9GHz was the max I could get it without it hanging. So I bought the CPU cooler and a new PSU, thinking they would help, but it was exactly the same. I then bought the G.Skill Ares 2 x 8GB F3-1866C10D-16GAB, and just installed them a few hours ago.
The first thing I noticed is that they make a low pitch humming noise, which kind of gives me a headache, the second is that MSI Controll Center shows their speed as DDR3 1333(667MHz). I bought 1866 because that's what my motherboard shows as the highest. Plus OC Genie II still only sets the clock at 2860MHz, I'm not confident enough to try to manually overcloak now that I just spent this much on new RAM, I don't want to blow anything.
How do I set them to 1866, and will that get OC Genie II to go a bit higher? Thanks in advance.
I have a AMD A6-3650 APU (2.6ghz) with Radeon HD 6530D, and MSI A75MA-G55 motherboard, with G.Skill Ares 2 x 8GB F3-1866C10D-16GAB. I replaced the 2 x 4GB I had in there, an Antec Kuhler H20 620 CPU cooler and a Coolmax ZU series 700w PSU.
The motherboard comes with something called OC Genie II, it says "with the press of a button" it will automatically overclock your PC to a safe clock. Before I changed anything it would clock at 2860MHz, I set everything to auto except the CPU, but 2.9GHz was the max I could get it without it hanging. So I bought the CPU cooler and a new PSU, thinking they would help, but it was exactly the same. I then bought the G.Skill Ares 2 x 8GB F3-1866C10D-16GAB, and just installed them a few hours ago.
The first thing I noticed is that they make a low pitch humming noise, which kind of gives me a headache, the second is that MSI Controll Center shows their speed as DDR3 1333(667MHz). I bought 1866 because that's what my motherboard shows as the highest. Plus OC Genie II still only sets the clock at 2860MHz, I'm not confident enough to try to manually overcloak now that I just spent this much on new RAM, I don't want to blow anything.
How do I set them to 1866, and will that get OC Genie II to go a bit higher? Thanks in advance.
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