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welcome back to another Jays $0.02 video where today we're going to show you some real-world benchmark results of overclocking my process or my motherboard so you can see how that really equates to frames per second and performance of your processor in your video card let me start off by saying this is not a tutorial about how to overclock so you're going to have to look somewhere else if you're trying to get information about how to overclock there are just too many variations and too many different components out there for me to possibly give you information about how to overclock your setup and if you haven't already figured out by the images I'm showing above of the BIOS from my motherboard there are a ton of settings that you can go in and mess with and you can cause permanent damage to your computer if you do something incorrectly so be careful my motherboard is a Asus Republic of gamers crosshair vive formula and I hope this motherboard because it has I think the greatest feature set out of any of the stock motherboards so it gave me control over every single aspect I could possibly need when it comes to overclocking and the processor I'm using is the AMD FX 8350 and I always save a little bit of money when it comes to processors because I always overclock the out of them and I do the best I can to save money and pull it back out of the processor through overclocking which is the whole reason I always overclock spend less get more performance by pushing it to the brink this image I'm showing now consists of a couple of programs that I use to do monitoring of the temperatures and voltages of my various components of my computer top left there is my what is that a fan control software speed fan that's it that's my speed speed fan software and that's what I use to control my fans on various temperatures and other things the bottom left is MSI Afterburner that's what I use to overclock my video card right now everything is set to stock for all of the CPU tests the red piece of software in the middle there is CPU Z that is a CPU informational program everything you need to know about your processor it shows you voltage multiplier the frontside bus speed the memory cache memory caches it makes sense let's see the l2 l3 cache when it comes to the processor everything you need to know including stepping all of that stuff so that's what I'm going to be showing you where the clock speeds are and the piece of software on the right is hardware monitor that shows all of the temperatures all of the voltages everything going on in my computer in just one space right there and that's what we're going to use to compare some of our temperatures of before and after overclocking at stock settings the processor has a throttling function where it will actually slow down to 1.4 gigahertz when it's not seeing a load it does that to save power and to save temperature but as you can see right here once we loaded up the 3d mark 11 software ramped right up to its top speed of 3.4 gigahertz temperatures look pretty good CPU sockets at 35 degrees Celsius cores are sitting right around the mid 20 degrees Celsius and things are looking pretty cool and comfortable right now in stock speeds showing you right here that the graphics card is at stock speed my particular card does ramp up to one point one to four gigahertz even though it's advertised as 1075 megahertz so who knows so what I'm gonna do now is I'm just going to show some various frames per second capture here some of the screen of what it looks like when it's doing its benchmark and we'll just kind of skip through this here and we'll circle back at the end of the test this next test coming up here is the physics test and on 3dmark 11 all physics scores are calculated by the CPU this is a CPU load there is no load on the GPU whatsoever so this is where the overclocking of the CPU is really going to show and as you can see right here I'm only getting between 14 15 frames per second I think it maxes out somewhere around 17 18 maybe tops it's very jittery very choppy and this is where you know the CPU speed really really comes in handy and I think we're zooming in here yeah sixteen point eight frames per second very poor very choppy very bad now good last thing that three mark eleven test is a combined test between the CPU and the GPU the CPU is doing all of the physics and the GPU is doing all the tessellation and other graphics enhancements to the video here so the frames per second here is looking like we're right around nineteen frames per second nothing impressive this is usually where AMD just falls on its face especially in the stock scores and that is blatantly obvious with the eighty two hundred and forty four score when it comes to the AMD processor and that honestly just has everything to do with its poor physics performance look right there at the physics core it's only fifty five twenty the graphics core is outstanding at a ten thousand one hundred forty seven but the combined score is only a forty nine forty nine what that means is the CPU could not keep up with the GPU and it is pretty obvious their stock speeds are nothing to be proud of we are right in the middle of the pack there as you can see by the yellow graph and there's just nothing spectacular at all about that performance from the CPU in the summertime due to the higher heat I run my CPU right around 4.7 gigs as you can see right here from three point four to four point seven we're talking 1.3 gigahertz overclock the temperatures are idling right around 37 degrees Celsius the GPU is still sitting here at stock speeds nothing spectacular there it is the GTX 680 since I never mentioned it in the beginning my cores are idling right now at 20 degrees Celsius I don't really think that's accurate because it jumps between 20 and 25 I think it just has to do with a temperature sensor on there it's not being very accurate but you can see fresh boot 37 minimum 38 maximum but what you might be interested to realize here is that the frames per second in the test didn't really improve that just goes to show that the GPU is taking on the majority of the load when it comes to gaming and prepend graphics performance especially in a synthetic benchmark like this where it's pre-programmed it's going through the same function it's always using the same process and I'd like to use synthetic benchmarks because they are a good control and you get the same result for the most part and you can really compare the differences but as you can see through these tests here they're really the same as test number one at the stock 3.4 gigahertz speed but when it gets to the physics test it's a whole nother story if you remember from the first test our physics core at the stop clock maxed out it right around sixteen point seven frames per second but now if you take a look here we are just flying right past that up into the 20s 21 everything looks a lot smoother it's a lot more fluid and we are at twenty two point two frames per second so that's already eight frames per second increase and that's pretty amazing considering it was absolutely free power and the combined test is absolutely no exception as you can see right here already getting much higher frames per second things are going much smoother in the test and that was by doing nothing more than overclocking the CPU itself and the graphics card is not overclocked at this point so so we managed to jump from eight thousand two hundred and forty four to nine thousand seventy-two that's a pretty good jump considering this is all free power it just was by doing nothing more than overclocking your processor and we went from a 55 20 to a 70 to 71 physics score and you'll also notice we jumped up an entire bracket on the phone chart and last but not least I'm going to take my msi gtx 680 graphics card reference model which is water-cooled of course and I'm going to push this thing to 1.3 gigahertz which is the max stable overclock I've been able to achieve to see what happens if you use a overclocked CPU in conjunction with a overclocked GPU I push my graphics card to a + 176 megahertz which brings it to an even 1.3 gigahertz and an additional 311 megahertz on the memory and from the very first frame of the very first test it's extremely obvious that we are getting a much higher frames per second I think we're getting an average of 10 additional frames per second by doing nothing more than moving some sliders on the MSI Afterburner software you got to keep in mind though that graphics cards do get extremely hot especially when you overclock so one of the reasons why I'm able to get such an extreme overclock it make it stable it's because I am running it on water and the maximum temperature that my graphics card ever got during any of these tests was 51 degrees Celsius and that was with my office door shut and the ambient temperature reaching 83 degrees in this office so normally if I keep the room open and have some ventilation in here it doesn't get anywhere above 45 degrees as you can imagine there are some improvements when it comes to the combined test since it is using the GPU as well as the CPU that is very smooth it looks like a movie it's very fluid we're gonna hit it looks like 26 frames per second or 25.9 so let's go ahead and take a look at how it did live it's pulling up the results 3d mark 11 and I think we're going to break 10,000 yes 10,000 15 so we gained another 800 or so P score by simply doing nothing more than overclocking the graphics card so by squeezing out extra performance that's already in your processor and your video card we managed to go from a low 8,000 to just over 10,000 on the peace core and all the way up to the maximum bracket we are in the top percentile when it comes to performance and we didn't pay any extra money for it whatsoever unless of course you're going to count the additional cooling needs that you are going to have to take into consideration overclocking does add temperature it does add voltage and so you need to be able to deal with that heat so I hope this gives you a little bit of an expectation of what to expect if you're going to look into overclocking either your video card or your CPU or both I wish you all the best when it comes to your overclocking results and that you find some free power like I did I hope you've enjoyed today's video regarding overclocking your CPU and video card and gaming performance that you can expect click the video on the left to check out my latest video regarding water cooling and things you need to know and click the video on the right to check out my brand new series coming out every Friday called tech addiction don't miss a brand-new episode coming out this Friday as always your subscription would be greatly appreciated and follow me on Twitter for the latest up-to-date news on what I'm doing on YouTube you