Overclock guide required - AMD A10 7700K

[Ghost]

Hi, I have a PC with following specs.

CPU - AMD A10-7700K 3.4Ghz
Mobo - Gigabyte G1 sniper A88x
CPU cooler - Cooler Master Hyper 212 evo
RAM - Trancend 8GB 1333Mhz (1 stick)
GPU - Sapphire R9 270 2GB OC
PSU - Raidmax 500AF
SSD - Team L5 120GB
HDD - WD 1TB blue
Case - Raidmax orion with 3 system fans (front, top, rear)

I need to overclock CPU with stable clock speed. Also let me know is it good to overclock with the cooler that i have. Guide should be with BIOS settings. Please post all the recommended BIOS settings that could help to overclock in details. (i don't want to overclock using AMD overdrive)

Reason to overclock - When i play GTA V sometimes fps drops to 20. (default graphics settings) I want it to run above 30fps.

[Gen X]

No overclock is ever the same and all CPUs do not equal each other in overclocks.

First run 3dmark 11 and make sure your hardware is performing up to par. Once you see its working like it should then decide what and if you should overclock,

[Ghost]

I use this app to benchmark -

problem is 3Dmark shows there is a performance improvement (physics score increased by 700) when my CPU overclock to 4.2GHz. But i don't see noticeable improvement in GTA V, and overclock is not stable.

I am looking for someone who has overclocked AMD A10-7700K with stable clock speed with noticeable improvement.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

GTAV is a picky game; OC usually will not help, as the game will most likely just crash.

Is the game installed to SSD?
What is your Windows PageFile set to?

[Ghost]

Game is installed on HDD. Windows page file set to SSD.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Put GTAV on SSD and don't OC. Should run fine.
Remove PageFile (set to none, apply and reboot) and then set it to 4096 Min & Max

[Ghost]

should i try without putting GTA V on SSD? because there is not enough space

[Ghost]

forgot to mention resolution. it is 1366*768

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well the biggest thing is changing the PageFile and lock in a size for that. GTAV is extremely picky with the PageFile settings for some reason.

I tried even having like 2GB on SSD and 4GB on HDD for PageFile settings; it did not like this at all. I removed them all, rebooted, set 4GB min/max to the SSD, worked fine after. Totally addressed most of the random stuttering, which was causing my FPS to randomly tank from like 60-80 down into the 20s and back again. It was super-annoying. Now it's gone.

768p then it should run just fine really.

[Ghost]

i don't have shuttering issue. for an example : fps drops to 21 in the end of the benchmark test which is exploding of gas tank. if lower graphics settings it works above 30s.