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Review: Overclocking AMD's A8-3850 APU: a close look

by Tarinder Sandhu on 6 July 2011, 08:57

Tags: AsRock, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Power-draw levels

Keeping voltages at default levels, as has been done for the 2.933GHz/133/1,772MHz-clocked A8-3850, means that power-draw doesn't increase by a great deal when running games or stressing the CPU cores. Crank up the voltage to obtain a higher CPU frequency and the low-power benefits of the APU diminish.