Sluggish Since overclock

Honeypiee · 10 Jul 2012 at 15:04

So my PC has become sluggish since overclock, I overclocked to 3.5GHZ and it was unstable to i went to 3.3 and it seems fine, since then my pc has become really slugish compared to what it used to be like before the overclock, I've downclocked to 3Ghz which my standard is 2.9. Could anyone give an explanation to why this is happening?

Specs;
CPU - AMD A8-3850 APU
Mobo - F1A75M
GPU - AMD 6870 Black Edition
Case - Corsair carbide series - 500R
CPU cooler - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev2
RAM - 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3
PSU - GX550W

areksnumbr1sxylady · 10 Jul 2012 at 15:47

I thought 3850 did not overclock at all?? 3870K is the "unlocked" version?

Bacon? · 10 Jul 2012 at 15:48

*facepalm* Did you see the word AMD in front of the numbers

Honeypiee · 10 Jul 2012 at 17:15

It's possible to overclock but you can't tweak voltage as it's at it maximum

VaderDSL · 10 Jul 2012 at 17:18

What are the temps like when overclocked? |Could be instability causing services to crash? I'm sure theres an event viewer in Windows, not sure where to access it though, it sometimes gives clues as to processes etc. crashing, perhaps indicating instability on overclocks.

Honeypiee · 10 Jul 2012 at 20:53

Idle is about 22C on CPU and 30 ish on GPU when playing games about 45-60C on cpu and about 60 on GPU