AMD A10-7850k showing only 1.67Ghz

[Rawrz0r]

The 290 can't do hybrid crossfire with the APU graphics so that's to be expected really.

When I was just using the 290 and disabling the GPU cores in the APU there still was no use.
Same when I removed the 290 and just used the APU still no use in the GPU cores.

Main thing is I now have my speed hahaha... Time to overclock

[IndyV72]

Ok... So who wants a laugh?

On the motherboard there is a switch which enables "Slow Mode Booting".

This switch was enabled and therefore holding the cpu back to 1.67Ghz.
Why it was enabled I do not know hahaha.

However, thanks to everyone that helped and hopefully no-one else has this problem.

... Stupid motherboard XD

The same thing is happening to me right now. I just made a new build:

AMD A10-7850K Kaveri Quad-Core 3.7 GHz Socket FM2+ 95W AD785KXBJABOX Desktop Processor AMD Radeon R7
MSI Gaming A88XM GAMING FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
MSI Radeon R9 390 DirectX 12 R9 390 GAMING 8G 8GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-2133C11D-16GXL
EVGA 120-G1-0750-XR 80 PLUS GOLD 750 W 10 yr Warranty Fully Modular NVIDIA SLI Ready and Crossfire Support Continuous Power Supply

I have the same setting in my MOBO as well, but switched either way has no effect on my APU, which is Clocking only at a solid 1700.0 MHz

All stress tests will not allow it to go beyond that clock speed.

All drivers and BIOS software are up to date.

Any ideas?

[Bonebreaker777]

The same thing is happening to me right now. I just made a new build:

AMD A10-7850K Kaveri Quad-Core 3.7 GHz Socket FM2+ 95W AD785KXBJABOX Desktop Processor AMD Radeon R7
MSI Gaming A88XM GAMING FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
MSI Radeon R9 390 DirectX 12 R9 390 GAMING 8G 8GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-2133C11D-16GXL
EVGA 120-G1-0750-XR 80 PLUS GOLD 750 W 10 yr Warranty Fully Modular NVIDIA SLI Ready and Crossfire Support Continuous Power Supply

I have the same setting in my MOBO as well, but switched either way has no effect on my APU, which is Clocking only at a solid 1700.0 MHz

All stress tests will not allow it to go beyond that clock speed.

All drivers and BIOS software are up to date.

Any ideas?

So everything in your BIOS is 'default' or faster than default, is that correct? What happens if you watch the CPU frequency with HwInfo or a similar application? Or try OCCP for load and monitoring purpose. Or AIDA.

Is the cooling adequate?

You could try to underclock the IGP so more power is left for the CPU - worked for me in the past. An overclocked APU had trouble to stay full turbo for a longer period with default IGP settings but with underclocked stats I had better CPU performance (not sure which generation of APU it was).

You have any options in the AMD Catalyst panel (or the newer alternative, AMD Crimson) to affect the clock in any way?

[IndyV72]

Everything set at default on the BIOS. Cooling is more than adequate.

The rest of the talk you mentioned I have no clue. I have no idea how to underclock my IGP. According to my Catalyst panel, it says it's disabled. So again, I'm at a total lost as to why this is happening.