Guest Posted June 12, 2019 Posted June 12, 2019 I have an HP Pavilion G4 with an A4-3305M APU. It has the Radeon HD 6480G, which sits between the Intel HD 3000 and Intel HD 4400 iGPUs. Mine has 8GB of DDR3 1066. Unfortunately I can't find any sticks that match frequency and I don't want to just use 4 or 6GB. What I can do, however, is use two programs to overclock both the CPU and the GPU that's integrated into the CPU die. We'll start with the CPU. The program is called K10Stat. It allows you to overclock your K10 based CPU by changing the BCLK and the multiplier. Not sure about the BCLK but the multiplier max is 31. My A4 3305M has a base frequency of 1.9 and "boosts" up to 2.5Ghz, however I've OC'd it up to 3.1Ghz. Play around with K10Stat to get a feel for the program, the worst you can do is cook a $10 CPU (seriously, you can even get the quad core A8s for $15 off ebay) and maybe a BSOD. The next thing we're gonna do is OC the GPU. My A4 3305M has an integrated Radeon HD 6480G, which has a base clock of 593Mhz. I've OC'd it to 800MHz, which is a net gain of almost 33%. The Radeon HD 6480G only has 240 unified shaders, however the APUs in the A8s can go up to 400+ shaders. On a weak APU like the Radeon HD 6480G, you won't see very many gains, but your low FPS will be higher.
2dk2c.2 Posted June 17, 2019 Posted June 17, 2019 I don't think anyone anywhere questions your prowess (I don't and I don't know you at all) But I'd be more impressed if you ran Skyrim, or a small business, or amassed bitcoins. I had an example of some guys who thought they were the kings of the pc industry way back when, installing 4 megs (megs) into a 486. They cast me out when I dared to peer at the circuitry in the widow-case....I do that a lot, I peek at people's wiring and get in real trouble for it. You'd think it was a wife and I just violated her privacy...way different rant. I upgraded my wife's notebook's memory and it refused to run, so I had to mail away for a slow-dimm to go with the faster ones I'd originally bought. Of course, I looked like a dumb-ass temporarily, and even with way more memory than it originally had, windows didn't care. Thanks for showing all the specs and benchmark pictures, and in return here's a non-overclocked version of mine. It's what I could afford, so it's tons slower than most any other gamer's GPU, but faster than yours, and that brightened my day a little. My bottom line was, if people could do so much in the nineties, think what people like you could do now!
Nuclear Heat Posted June 17, 2019 Posted June 17, 2019 What the hell... just buy a r3 3200g or 2200g even, they are super cheap paired it with a high speed ram on a b450 cheap mobo, and thats it.
Pork Type Posted June 18, 2019 Posted June 18, 2019 On 6/12/2019 at 1:01 PM, RussianPrince said: Not sure about the BCLK but the multiplier max is 31. BCLK is the motherboard's base bus speed. You overclock that, you overclock pretty much everything. At your own peril. RAM, PCI, Everything. This is what we used to do, back in the day, with multiplier locked CPUs. Gingerly increasing BCLK until the various subsystem controllers on the motherboards freaked out. It's outmoded, now that CPU vendors eagerly market multiplier unlocked CPUs, With BIOS features to match from mobo vendors. And onboard sound, LAN, Wi-Fi, graphics, you name it. On a laptop, you make the whole thing unstable. Don't mess with BCLK. Just asking for trouble.
Guest Posted June 18, 2019 Posted June 18, 2019 18 hours ago, 2dk2c.2 said: But I'd be more impressed if you ran Skyrim, or a small business, or amassed bitcoins. I had an example of some guys who thought they were the kings of the pc industry way back when, installing 4 megs (megs) into a 486. It can run Skyrim on Low pretty well even at stock clocks. I have a socket 478 board with 4GB of RAM. 18 hours ago, Nuclear Heat said: What the hell... just buy a r3 3200g or 2200g even, they are super cheap paired it with a high speed ram on a b450 cheap mobo, and thats it. Hey genius, main rig is in my signature. This is a laptop that I found in the trash. My main gaming laptop has a 1050 Ti, i5 7300HQ, and 16GB of DDR4. "Advanced Member"... more like advanced idiot. 4 hours ago, Pork Type said: BCLK is the motherboard's base bus speed. False. BCLK is specific to the bus in between the CPU and the motherboard. On Intel Sandy Bridge, the BCLK was also tied to the SATA controller but that was moved to a separate part of the chipset called the southbridge/PCH, and a lot of desktop motherboards no longer use dedicated Intel controllers and use things like AsMedia controllers instead. Overclocking your SATA controller can lead to data corruption. 4 hours ago, Pork Type said: Don't mess with BCLK. Just asking for trouble. The APUs made have a dynamic BCLK, meaning the chip itself changes the BCLK along with the multiplier to achieve its target frequency, unlike Intel chips which do it based on power targets and load. For AMD there is no "single core turbo", the whole chip turbos whenever it can. Anyone else think they know more about this than I do? 19 hours ago, 2dk2c.2 said: Thanks for showing all the specs and benchmark pictures, and in return here's a non-overclocked version of mine.
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