Gigabyte AMD A55 Chipset Overclocking Guide Owner's Manual

GIGABYTE AMD A55 CHIPSET OC GUIDE

AMD Llano platform was launched recently, so end-users are trying to understand the platform and how it fits in the grand scheme of things. One thing is for certain, Llano platform has fantastic potential to make a great all rounder or home media PC, office machine, even a gaming machine on a budget. We finally have an integrated GPU platform with some solid graphics performance thanks to AMD!

The key to unlocking the potential of Llano platform is overclocking. GIGABYTE A-Series motherboard range has big overclocking capability. The purpose of this guide is to show and analyse that overclocking capability and provide some general pointers and key overclocking parameters, in order to get the most out of the platform to improve end user experience.

Let's start with the test system used.

SYSTEM:  GIGABYTE A55M-S2V v1.1 (F2 shipping bios)  AMD A6-3500 (tricore, 2.1GHz-2.4Ghz CPU, 444MHz GPU clock)  4GB RAM KIT, Kingston KHX2133C9BD3T1K2/4GX  750W Corsair HX750 PSU  H70 Corsair water cooler  Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB SSD Drive (SATA0 port)  ATI 11.7 Display Driver  Windows 7 64-bit OS

The following benchmarks were used to assess performance and stability.

BENCHMARKS:  3DMARK Vantage Performance  Super Pi 8M  Cinebench CPU  Cinebench Open GL  Dirt3 game  w Prime 32M

We chose a variety of CPU and GPU based benchmarks to try and understand how overclocking affects performance. In terms of CPU based benchmarks we chose Super Pi 8M, w Prime 32M and Cinebench CPU which test single and multi core performance. GPU based benchmarks include 3DMARK Vantage Performance, Cinebench Open GL and Dirt3 DX11 video game.

These benchmarks are in no way a final test of stability and for further stability testing it is recommended to use some form of CPU and GPU stress software. Ultimate stability is still the test of time.

Dino Strkljevic (dinos22), GIGABYTE Australia Page 1