Very unexpected results.

[Tech Deck God]

So, about two years ago, I made the life changing choice to sell my gaming consoles in order to build my first gaming rig and leap in to the master race in what was ultimately one of the best choices I've made in my life. While I was getting so sentimental, I came across my old laptop, which was my daily grinder when I was in High School and first getting in to PC Gaming. It's a Toshiba Satellite L50D-A with 4gb of DDR3 RAM, a 500gb HDD and an AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon HD 8330 graphics. While I was looking at it, I thought "You know what? Screw it. Let's overclock this bitch."

 

Long story short, I kept going. And going. No cooler pad, sitting on my lap. 4085 MHz core clock as compared to its original 497 and still sitting at 57 degrees Celsius while I played multiple games of Counter Strike.

So what do you guys think of this? I don't overclock a whole lot, so I'm honestly not sure if this is impressive, but I'm quite surprised that such huge overclocking room has gone completely unnoticed in a generally low end processor. Linus Tech Tips Video perhaps???

[Frosty]

That high of a frequency sounds a bit strange to me. Have you noticed a performance difference?

 

 

[Moonzy]

you can max the slider all you want but if the gpu isnt under load, it wont even matter as it's not running at that speed anyway

[J.B.]

Have you done a CPU/GPU stress test?

[daniielrp]

Keep afterburner open and run a game. Then use that to see what speed it actually clocks to.

[Tech Deck God]

I've run GTA 5 with it clocked to 4000MHz on 720p, medium settings (due to it still being a fairly low end chip and a 1.5ghz processor to go with it) and the clock speed dropped to about 2900MHz, at about 68 degrees Celsius, but there's definitely a MASSIVE performance increase. Like I said, I've only been PC gaming for 2 years or so, and I've only recently gotten in to overclocking (When I found out it was possible to clock a 970's performance to that of a 980) and I just can't figure out how such a huge increase is even possible with such a low temperature change