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welcome back to harbor unbox today we are exploring Athlon 200g overclocking yeah an unexpected turn of events it's now possible to overclock the locked 200g the semi sometimes locked 200g ii this appears to be a slip-up by msi with their latest round of fast updates for all of their am 4 motherboards about two weeks ago now msi released a new bios revision for their full range of a m4 motherboards to include support for the latest version of AMD's generic encapsulated software architecture otherwise known as AG esa or a geesa geesa only go through G so this latest feature improves memory support by enhancing overclocking and compatibility and also adds a virtualization related feature that enables the ability to manually assign PCIe graphics cards within iommu groups anyway improved support is great and all that but what we're mostly interested in for today's video is the fact that the Athlon 200g can now be overclocked on msi motherboards after looking into this it is indeed true I've also tried a few asrock be 350 and be 450 boards but sadly none of those allowed me to overclock for 200 GE however all the MSI a m4 motherboards I tried it did and this included a few budget be 350 boards right up to the higher-end be 450 models such as the gaming Pro carbon for example I'm yet to try any of these suits or gigabyte boards but I will update you guys with those results in the comment section below so far though I've only seen reports of this working on MSI boards so it seems as though MSI has made a bit of a mistake here a happy accident for budget enthusiasts it would seem the good news is the genie is out of the bottle on this one and there's very little at MSI or AMD you can do to put it back in I suppose MSI can lock the 200g back down with a future bias revision but that doesn't change the fact that you can now get the November release and start overclocking so to avoid being locked out you just wouldn't over you just wouldn't update your bios to the newer version until you upgrade your CPU down the track with the Ajitha 1.0 0.6 firmware in on the MSI motherboard you simply need to enter the BIOS and apply a standard multiplier overclock my 200g wouldn't post at 4 gigahertz I wouldn't 3.9 gigahertz but even with 1.5 volts it wasn't stable and windows at 3.8 gigahertz it was 100% stable with 1.3 5 volts so that's what I went with as that seems to make the most sense here unfortunately the ddr4 memory is still locked down so I was limited to ddr4 2666 but you can trim the timings to improve performance there but I haven't done that for the testing in this video for testing I have used CL 14 memory since that's not overly expensive at the 2402 2666 speeds so i thought that would make the most sense when compared to the stock out of the box configuration I was able to increase the core frequency by 19% from 3.2 gigahertz to 3 point 8 gigahertz and not an earth-shattering increase but every little bit does help here especially we're talking about a 55 dollar dual core Zen processor unfortunately I don't have the 200g box cooler so I'm using the Wraith stealth for all of the overclocking in this video and that's how I suspected the Box cooler will probably facilitate this overclock as the race stealth peaked at just 59 degrees and that's really respectable quite cool and that was after an hour long blender stress test with an ambient room temperature of 21 degrees for testing the graphics card used is the gigabyte r-tx 2080 TI and yes I know it's an unrealistic GPU to pair with this CPU but I want to be able to directly compare this data with the data from higher-end CPUs that I've already tested and frankly it really makes no difference as I've recently proven the margins 1080p and the same with the gtx 1070 using these low-end CPUs then of course the entire point of testing and pairing these CPUs is to test CPU performance what a shocker not low-end GPU performance so using a gtx 1050 for example would tell us absolutely nothing about these CPUs and be completely pointless for those that want to keep the CPU for a generation or more anyway with all of that made quite clear I believe let's just jump into the results first up we have these Cinebench r15 results and here we see that our 19% overclock has improved the multi-threaded score by 13% so not too bad that's just 4% lower than I simulated 3.9 gigahertz overclock using the risin 5 2400 G with half the cores disabled it's worth noting that this overclock allowed the 200 G to overtake the Pentium G 5400 by a small margin testing with Corona shows a me 7% time reduction for the render tests are not amazing but it does place the 200 G much closer to the Pentium G 5400 in this test running our overclock through the blender render test shows a more impressive 14% reduction in render time and this now places the 200 G miles ahead of the AVX lacking pentium g 5400 so good stuff here but I think now it's time to check out some gaming benchmarks testing with Assassin's Creed Odyssey we see at the overclocked 200 G now offers a 9% boost for the average framerate and a much-needed 15% boost to the frame time performance the game played noticeably smooth with the 200g overclocked so while the games don't seem that significant they actually are we find a similar story with Assassin's Creed origins and now the overclocked 200 G is able to match the average frame rate of the Pentium G 5400 but kill it for the frame time performance testing with battlefield 1 revealed a really nice 14% increase in average frame rate performance at 1080p going from 71 FPS to 81 fps once overclocked we also see some pretty solar performance gains in Forza horizon 4 and 9 percent boost was enough to just push the 200 G ahead of the more expensive Pentium G 5400 then we sent the gains in hitman were quite substantial a 16% booster see at 1080p as the 200 G went from a stock result of 38 FPS to an overclocked result of 44 fps and now the experience is miles better than what you get with the pentium g 5400 here we have another nice performance gain this time with project cars - going from 56 FPS on average to 63 FPS at 1080p once overclocked basically it's a free 13 percent bump in frame rate the Rainbow six siege results are interesting as the overclocked 200 G is still slower than the G 5400 at 1080p but somehow it does do much better at 1440p whatever the case we again see some decent performance gains from the overclock previously I was having a few issues with the Athlon 200g in star wars battlefront 2 but a recent game patch seems to have solved that I'm not sure of it to relate it or not but the game does load much faster on the 200-year and it actually plays a lot better we also see a big 16% boost to the average frame rate when overclocking the Athlon processor taking us from 67 FPS to 78 FPS at 1080p and here it was much faster than the pinch in G 5400 last up we have shut off the Tomb Raider and please note you will see considerably better frame rates using the built-in canned benchmark as it's not very CPU intensive and it mainly focuses on GPU performance so actually playing the game on a low-end CPU will provide very different results and results like what you see here overclock the 200g boosted frame rates by 12% which is decent but truth be told this game is a bit beyond an SMT enabled dual-core that isn't clocked beyond 5 gigahertz so there you have it with the right motherboard you can now overclock the Athlon 200 G and Bruce gaming performance but as much as 16% which is no small margin for an entry-level CPU as far as I know right now you will need an MSI motherboard for this overclock and for those shopping for a new option it's just something like the B 450 M Pro vdh as it cost just $70 and then you can throw the $55 turnigy on that you have a pretty decent ultra affordable combo once overclocked alternatively if you're after a placeholder using the 200 G as a placeholder until then 2 arrives then the 200 G will work on a better quality board such as the B 450 a gaming Pro carbon that I used for this video having said all that I strongly suggest you spend the extra $45 on the rise and 322 energy and then you can overclock that if you want to that's just a much more capable processor and once you factor in the cost of a really basic $70 B 450 board it means you're only paying about 35% more for that combo and then if you throw in 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory then you're down to like a 20% premium for the much faster 2200 gu anyway let me know what you think of the overclocked Athlon turnigy down the comment section below and if you enjoy the video be sure to the like button you can subscribe for more content just like this and if you appreciate the work with your horror box then consider supporting us on patreon thank you for watching I'm your host Steve and I will see you next time