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welcome back to harbor unboxed today we're overclocking the arisin 320 200 g to the max with a $20 air cooler from deep cool called the gamax 200 t though I should note this video is in no way shape or form sponsored by deep cool they just so happen to have a cheap cooler on offer that I could quickly buy locally now I said $20 cooler but it cannot often be found selling for less than that in fact as I prepared this video it was selling on Amazon for just $13 u.s. that's actually up from $9 the previous week for my fellow Australians you can get this cooler for as little as twenty dollars ozzie and in fact the slightly more extreme guy max 300 can be had for just $25 over at PC case kia i've actually now picked up both models but for today's video i will be focusing on these slightly cheaper gamax 200 so i can show you exactly how performs on the arisin 320 200 g you might think investing around $20 in an aftermarket cooler for a Raven Ridge apu is a little odd especially for the 2200 G given that the APU itself cost just $100 and is true for maximum value you will want to stick with the Wraith stealth Box cooler this little guy allows for a mild overclock of either the CPU or GPU and we showed that in our launch day coverage using the Box cooler I was able to push the Vega rate GP from the default one point one gigahertz right up to 1.6 gigahertz and while this did lead to some very nice gains it did also push operating temperatures well into the 80s and for this reason I wasn't able to overclock the CPU cores as well our overclock which saw a 45 percent increase in GPU frequency often netis around 20 to 30% more frames in games and this really transforms the affordable Verizon 320 200 G and well this got me thinking if you're upgrading an old PC you will require not just the 2200 G but also an AM 4 motherboard and my preference would be a decent quality be 350 model and they typically cost around $70 u.s. there's also a good chance you will need some ddr4 memory in a dual channel ddr3 thousand kit like the one I have here they generally cost about $100 so this means the total bill will come out and around $270 us which really is exceptional given that you also get the reasonably capable Vega eight GPU as well considering we saw at least a 20 percent uplift in games from just the GPU overclocked I was keen to see what the 2200 G could offer with an even more aggressive overclock applied to the GPU along with an overclock of the CPU cores as well in the case of the deep core gamax 200 T and 300 at around $20 they increase the total build cost by just 7% so if they can keep the rise in 3:22 energy cool and quiet when overclocked and allow for gains of at least 20% then it seems you're very much getting a solid return on investment now if you're new to all this overclocking business or you've just been on the fence because it all sounds a bit too scary I told you to have a go it's actually very easy and safe to get good results typically I encourage overclocking via the BIOS but aim DS rise and master software is actually quite good and for beginners it's actually very user friendly in fact I can quickly show you where to start right now first step would be to acquire the Rison master software and install it I'll provide a link in the video description then once installed open it up and you'll be faced with well this it looks a little bit overwhelming but just relax most of this you can ignore for our overclock click on the game mode tab at the bottom of the window alternatively you can use profile 1 or 2 and if you want to rename those you just have to double click on them anyway once you've selected one of these tabs we can start with either the CPU or GPU overclocking I suggest finding the maximum stable frequency of one of these and then moving on to the other for the CPU frequency simply raise the frequency from 3500 megahertz to 3700 megahertz or 3.7 gigahertz and then run a stress test with a program like prime95 or a to 64 for about 30 minutes and that'll give you a rough idea of how stable the system is if it doesn't crash then proceed to 3.8 you can hurt run the stress test again and if you're passed then you can move on to 3.9 gigahertz and so on I expect that most of you will probably land around 3.8 to 3.9 gigahertz also be aware that you can do this in much smaller steps than what I've done it in I'm quite impatient when it comes to overclocking so I've just done it in hundred megahertz leaps but you can do it as small as 25 increments if you prefer but as I said most 2200 G chips should be good for around 3.8 2 3 point nine gigahertz while you're increasing the CPU core frequency you'll also want to increase the CPU voltage that said though the rise in master software does default to one point four volts for some reason and this is already very high i wouldn't recommend you push much higher for 24/7 use in fact you could try and dial this back a bit somewhere between 1.3 and 1.5 volts is likely where you'll end up once the CPU overclock has been applied your next one I work out the maximum GPU frequency by default the Vega at GPU in the 2200 G operates at one point one gigahertz but the rise in master software defaults are just 400 megahertz which is a bit odd without any voltage adjustments you should be able to push this up to around 1.3 gigahertz in order to go higher you will need to increase the APU graphics voltage and the SOC voltage by default both is set at one point one volts but for best results I bumped the APU graphics voltage up to 1.3 volts and the SOC voltage to 1.2 volts the SOC voltage is particularly important is this is a single rail that feeds the uncaught and graphics domains I found that 1.2 volts was enough to stabilize the vagary GPU at 16 hundred and 50 megahertz but I've also seen reports of users going as high as one point two five volts and this is the maximum voltage AMD recommends for testing the GPU overclock free tools such as the superposition benchmark work well with the GPU you can increase the frequency by one mega her at a time but that would be painstakingly slow you should be able to jump right up to 1300 megahertz and then continue from there in small adjustments and also adjust the voltage as you go once you have everything set up and saved to the profile of your choosing you simply have to open the rise and master software every time you start the system and apply the profile alternatively though you can take note of all these settings and then load into the BIOS and simply apply them there and that way they will be automatically applied every time the system boots up so what is my overclock had done for the 2200 G and how well does the gam ax 200 look after it before we get to the gaming framerate results here's a look at the temperatures starting with f1 2017 each past lasts six minutes and I ran the test half a dozen times and here's the results for the final run whereas the race stealth was pushing into the high eighties with just the GPU over the gimmicks 200t never saw temperatures rise about 55 degrees which is remarkable oh and please note I maintained an ambient room temperature of 21 degrees for or less testing not only that but the fam wasn't really spinning particularly fast and I've described as almost silent also for those wondering this is 1080p footage featuring the medium quality preset with taa enabled that's pretty impressive stuff given we saw an average of 47 FPS with a minimum of 39 fps and the frame time data was also very respectable in fact frame consistency was also excellent in this Thailand while AMD does have their work cut out for them in other titles it's great to see we have a few examples where the Raven Ridge ap use our silky smooth before moving on I ran an hour-long overwatch bot match and the way I configure this means that the game never actually ends up makes for a great stress test again temperatures stayed under 55 degrees for both the CPU and GPU it was also great to see silky smooth frame rate performance in this tile and here I was again using the medium quality preset of 1080p with 100% render scale set ok so temperatures were excellently gamax 200 T was very quiet so now it's time to see what kind of framerate gains gamers can expect to see since we just looked it over watching our stress tests let's now check out the gameplay results here we see a 19% increase for the average framerate and 23% for the minimum frame rate when overclocked in the 2200 G that's a decent performance uplift and it meant that 2020 G was now not only faster than he stopped 2400 G but also quite a bit faster than the Pentium G 45 60 and GT 1030 combo when looking at the minimum result moving on to csgo we see a 22% increase for the average frame rate but a massive 45% boost to the minimum result this is very likely a result of overclocking not just the GPU but also the CPU next up we have dota 2 and here we see a 21% increase for the average but only a 13% increase for the minimum which is quite surprising still these are decent gains nonetheless the fortnight battle royal results are interesting and not just because we see massive gains when overclocking stock the 2200 G seemed somewhat constrained as the minimum and average frame rates were very close much like what we see with the Intel CPUs using their horrible integrated graphics overclocking the GPU seems to alleviate this issue and we see a massive 45% increase in average framerate with a 34% boost to the minimum and this means that the 2200 G is now able to match the 2400 G or at least the stock 2400 G of course I just had to test pub G even though it's really no friend of AMD hardware or certainly the AMD a per use still overclocking really helped here and we did see a 25% boost and that was very noticeable actually playing the game testing with Rainbow six siege sir a 21 percent boost to the average framerate and 25 percent increase for the minimum so this is in line with what we've seen from most of the other titles that have been tested so far finally we have rocket League and here we see our worst result yet just a 16 percent boost once overclocked not a bad result it did allow the 2200 G to overtake these stock 2400 G and almost catch the Pentium G 4560 and GT 1030 combo overall for less than $300 that's really a killer combo when you consider that a core i3 8100 on it yet to be released to be 360 mother bought 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory and of course a GT 1030 graphics card that sort of combo you'd be looking at around 370 dollars and that means you'd be saving 20 something percent by getting the Raven Ridge APU and that kind of saving will no doubt be very welcomed by budget shoppers I'd say worst case no you do still be able to extract at least 10 to 15% more out of this AP with a basic air cooler so to me that seems well worth the investment not to mention tinkering with these APIs is just a whole heap of fun in fact I found it quite a bit more rewarding than playing around with saint 8700 ki GT X 1080 Ti though I'm not trying to kid anyone that's also a boatload of fun anyway that's gonna do it for this one if you enjoyed the video be sure to hit the like button for us subscribe for more content and if you appreciate the testing and all the work we do here at harbor and box then consider supporting us on patreon thanks for watching I'm your host Dave see you next time