AMD Richland mobile overclocking help needed

stonedatheist

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Sep 17, 2013
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I recently bought a new laptop that has an A8-5557M APU but I'm having trouble finding a way to take the CPU cores past the stock 2.1ghz. I've successfully used K10 stat on an A6-3420M but the most recent version I can find is 1.54 from Aug 2011 and it when I try to use it on the Richland APU, it gives the following error: "Can't detect family 10h/11h/12h/14h processor". I've also tried AMD Overdrive which will work for undervolting but won't let me go higher than 2.1GHz. Any help is greatly appreciated.
 

stonedatheist

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Sep 17, 2013
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The nice people over at overclock.net suggested PSCheck which seems to have done the trick. I found out that the normal p-states (P3-P0) are locked at 2.1 GHz and that I had to use the turbo p-states (Pb2-Pb0) to get to a higher clockrate. It lets me change the voltage too so I'll be able to tweak it exactly how I want it.
 
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