Mr Popo96

Task manager and hwinfo

No, it's set to 32 threads?

Bios is up to date and I did reset it before messing about. Its finally keeping settings changes after another reset. Not sure what messed it up but gonna try and change bits one at a time and go from there. Its currently sitting at 4.6ghz Also, on cinebench its only showing 2 squares being worked on, on the multi core test? All cores are being used though, is that right?

Not sure what's going on with it now but whatever I try and do or change it just isn't keeping any settings. Just defaults back to tpu1 and keeps the cpu at 4ghz. Gonna go ahead and cry now this damn machine

From what I saw that's as high as it was going, but others have said setting it to 4.55 might have been limiting it so I've taken that off now and about to start doing tests. At the time the 4060 was in my price range and it was on sale, the 4070s were all an extra 3-400. I might get something better in the near future if prices keep dropping like they seem to be.

I'll give that a go and see if anything changes. I'll let you know if it gives any promising results! Thank you!

I've done benchmarks with heavenly and cinebench. Heavenly it's sitting around 3800 points and cinebench it sits a little above the 4060 base gpus on there. When I have the nvidia overclock software up it doesn't show any signs of pulling back?

I did try and let the mobo choose the clock speeds with the auto tuner asus has but it never went above 4.2? Xmp is active and running the sticks at max speeds. They're both nvme

Games like warhhamer darktide, sea of thieves, starfield, no man's sky. All used to be on high and still only on high with the 10-20 fps boost. When the cpu is under load both task manager and hwinfo say its going up to the 4.55ghz?

I did the testing with Asus' overclocking software, once I found stability I put it in the bios and it runs 4.55 and sometimes over under load but sits around 3 or lower when idle. I got 4 sticks of 16gb, 2 sets of this: CMK32GX4M2D3600C18 I have set in the bios to give the gpu priority in the lanes so I don't think it's being limited? I can double check though!

Gpu speed is on a curve overclock with nvidias overclocking software. The memory on it is also boosted by 200mhz. I could try and find a stable higher clock myself if that would be better? But I've checked hwinfo and all the temps are staying around the 50-60 range under testing loads, rarely go above 60. I go through with ccleaner often to remove any unwanted rubbish.

I've recently been doing a fair amount of upgrading to my build yet I feel like it's still not giving me the full potential if that makes sense? I'm playing most games on the same settings as before the upgrades with only a 10-20fps difference? Build before: R7 2700x 4.1ghz 32gb corsair 3600mhz 2060 oc Asus x470 pro Main storage was solid Upgraded build: R9 5950x 4.55ghz (can't seem to get it any higher stably) 64gb corsair 3600mhz 4060 oc Asus x470 pro still All storage on ssd, boot on separate m.2, games on 2x2tb ssd and vr games on 2tb m.2 I've been messing with settings galore but nothing seems to help. Everything on windows side is set to performance and all that, same with nvidia control centre. Everything has all its newest drivers. The cpu is on a 360 aio rad aswell and both it and the gpu never go above 50c. Any help would be appreciated!!

I managed to find an i7-3540M varient and swap them out easy as! Booted up straight away and have had no issues! Thank you everyone! Just need to upgrade the battery as it is running at 20% capacity and see if I can find any use for the 1/4inch bay at the top left of the board

It's soldered on unfortunately and I'm not confident in soldering on a new cpu. A new motherboard is needed in this case.

To start off with, yes, I know this is an old laptop and probably isn't worth the time or money on it but I just wanna see how much I can get out of this lil thing. I currently have the Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz motherboard in it with 16gb of sodimm at 1333mhz which I'm pretty sure is the max this cpu can take. An I've put 250gb sandisk ssd in it to help with speed a lil bit. I'm curious as to what motherboards will fit into this to help make it a bit more powerful. I was thinking the board with the Intel Core i7-3540M @ 3GHz CPU on it? But it doesn't look like it fits? If anyone has any links to boards they know will fit easily as a decent replacement it would be appreciated!! If pictures of the current board is needed I'll give them later! I'd also be down to change the RAM aswell if the new cpu can take more. If it does end up costing a lot I'll probably just look at upgrading when this one does die.