Awesome Llano Overclocking Tool

[Mathragh]

May someone run 3DMark 11 in Performance preset? With before and after overclocking? I would like the see the Detailed scores,
(3DMark Score, Graphics Score, Physics Score, Combined Score, GraphicsTest1, GraphicsTest2, GraphicsTest3, GraphicsTest4, PhysicsTest and CombinedTest). I would to see the gain in 3D that you got by overclocking your Llano!

I could do that, however, remember that we're only overclocking the CPU part of the APU here.

The GPU(northbridge) part of the APU is locked sadly, so we cannot tweak that bit.

Still interested?

 

[m&m's]

I could do that, however, remember that we're only overclocking the CPU part of the APU here.

The GPU(northbridge) part of the APU is locked sadly, so we cannot tweak that bit.

Still interested?

Yes I am.

 

[Mathragh]

Yes I am.

Ok, i'll give it a go tomorrow

 

[Mathragh]

OK, results for 3DMark 11 are in. Did a run with both stock and OC, and both with crossfire off and on.

Crossfire acted up weird, GPU-Z reported the GPU part of the APU randomly downclocking at full load, I guess this is why hybrid crossfire performs so bad at alot of things. The FPS greatly fluctuated with crossfire aswell, jumping up and down 50% all the time and causing very visible fps drops.

Anyway, here are the results, only have links coz I dont have the full or professional version of 3DMark 11.

Stock(1,6GHz, 2,3GHz Turbo), crossfire off For some reason, it shows the speed of the CPU part as 2,2 GHz instead of stock.
OC(2,2GHz, 3,1GHz Turbo), Crossfire Off Instead of showing the OC here, the CPU speed is shown as stock.

Stock(1,6GHz, 2,3GHz Turbo), Crossfire on
OC(2,2GHz, 3,1GHz Turbo), Crossfire on

 

[HTC]

Had to increase the voltages and did so across all P-States (check attachment): had freezes which only went away with a hard reset.

Tried some overclocking (P0 only) and put it @ 1.4125 voltage with multi 32 and fired up IBT. To my surprise, even though CPU-Z showed the OC, IBT had roughly the same GFlops as with the 29 multi. Tried the 34 multi with same results as 32 multi

 

[Mathragh]

Weird, whats more, your service configuration shows you have 9 P-states, while the bottom two states are clearly not P-states but northbridge states. Perhaps the tweaking utility is a bit buggy with your APU.

With your RAM frequency you should definately see atleast some results at a higher clock.
Perhaps you could try something like superPI, Prime95 or Winrar?

 

[HTC]

Weird, whats more, your service configuration shows you have 9 P-states, while the bottom two states are clearly not P-states but northbridge states. Perhaps the tweaking utility is a bit buggy with your APU.

With your RAM frequency you should definately see atleast some results at a higher clock.
Perhaps you could try something like superPI, Prime95 or Winrar?

With P0 @ multi 29:

With P0 @ multi 34:

Although both pics don't show, CPU-Z reported 2900 MHz on the 1st pic and 3400 MHz on the 2nd.

As you can see, virtually identical results

 

[Mathragh]

As you can see, virtually identical results

well, one simple way to find out if the program works: try clocking it at something like 2,3GHz and try again.

Also, are you absolutely sure your RAM runs at the 1600MHz specified in your system info?

 

[HTC]

well, one simple way to find out if the program works: try clocking it at something like 2,3GHz and try again.

Also, are you absolutely sure your RAM runs at the 1600MHz specified in your system info?

When i was testing for the different P-States (up to multi 29), IBT would respond accordingly to different multis: it's just when the multi is over 29 that it doesn't show any results.

Yes: the RAM runs @ 1600 (check attachment).

 

[Mathragh]

Well, fusiontweaker simply wouldnt set the multiplier above the limit of the A6-3410MX(which was 31x), however, Yo_wattup had a higher limit, and was able to reach it. I dont know why yours doesnt seem to work though.

Have you tried......
Windows performance index...? lol

 

[Mussels]

could be temp throttling, watch the clocks in realtime (and no, not with CPU-Z. something that shows all cores)

 

[Mathragh]

could be temp throttling, watch the clocks in realtime (and no, not with CPU-Z. something that shows all cores)

Fusiontweaker itself should be nice for this, shows the clocks in real time.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Fusiontweaker itself should be nice for this, shows the clocks in real time.

is that lano specific, fusion tweeker ,or will it tweek an Fx chipset

 

[Mathragh]

is that lano specific, fusion tweeker ,or will it tweek an Fx chipset

Well, its not officially supported, but ofc you could try!

It might actually work if AMD uses the same chip communication scheme for both Llano and Bulldozer.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

nope apparently not ,though i did get .net framework errors , i do have that upto date and working fine so id say no , ah well, i do loves me tweekin soft .

i have a beady on this thread as a lano with dual pciex16 @ 4/8 whatever, is in my mind as a possible 2nd folding rig, soon my 5800,s will need a new mobo to call home ,hopefully that is

 

[HTC]

could be temp throttling, watch the clocks in realtime (and no, not with CPU-Z. something that shows all cores)

Fusiontweaker itself should be nice for this, shows the clocks in real time.

When it was doing SuperPi, FusionTweaker said it was @ P0 state, meaning @ 2900 MHz for the 1st pic and 3400 MHz for the 2nd pic (the pics from this post).

 

[Mathragh]

When it was doing SuperPi, FusionTweaker said it was @ P0 state, meaning @ 2900 MHz for the 1st pic and 3400 MHz for the 2nd pic (the pics from this post).

And while it was under load, it also showed the 4 bars in the top of the fusiontweaker window, with behind those bars saying it was running at 3,4GHz? Grasping at straws here, but something must be causing this.

 

[HTC]

And while it was under load, it also showed the 4 bars in the top of the fusiontweaker window, with behind those bars saying it was running at 3,4GHz? Grasping at straws here, but something must be causing this.

If you mean those green bars, yes.

Does this pic help (attachment)? Took it during SuperPi.

 

[Mathragh]

Yep, that was it, thank you.

What are your temps like? Do you think it would be possible to clock the CPU higher than 3,4GHz? Also, you might want to clock your P1 state the same as your P0 state, see if that helps...

 

[HTC]

Yep, that was it, thank you.

What are your temps like? Do you think it would be possible to clock the CPU higher than 3,4GHz? Also, you might want to clock your P1 state the same as your P0 state, see if that helps...

Max is 3.6 GHz @ 1.4125 volts: it doesn't allow any higher.

Here's a pic (attachment) of it while running SuperPi. It scored worse then @ 2900: 25.848.

As for temps, i don't really know. I use a Noctua NH-C12P.

 

[Mathragh]

Max is 3.6 GHz @ 1.4125 volts: it doesn't allow any higher.

Here's a pic (attachment) of it while running SuperPi. It scored worse then @ 2900: 25.848.

As for temps, i don't really know. I use a Noctua NH-C12P.

Ok, you might want to monitor your temps then, throttling might explain everything.

try this for monitoring your temperatures.

 

[HTC]

Ok, you might want to monitor your temps then, throttling might explain everything.

try this for monitoring your temperatures.

Check attachment.

 

[Mathragh]

Check attachment.

Those temperatures are way off. Unless you're sitting outside with an ambient temperature of sub zero, your CPU temperature sensors are way off. Thats probably a faulty sensor for you. Is there a way you can force the CPU fan to run at 100% in the bios?

 

[HTC]

Those temperatures are way off. Unless you're sitting outside with an ambient temperature of sub zero, your CPU temperature sensors are way off. Thats probably a faulty sensor for you. Is there a way you can force the CPU fan to run at 100% in the bios?

I think so: would have to check.

You really think the temps are off? It's a bit chilly here and, according to a small temp monitoring box i have on top of my case, it's 19.4º C (check attachment).

 

[Mathragh]

I think so: would have to check.

You really think the temps are off? It's a bit chilly here and, according to a small temp monitoring box i have on top of my case, it's 19.4º C (check attachment).

Yeah, but Hwmonitor showed your min temps as 3 degrees, hardware can NEVER(with air cooling) be cooler than the ambient air, so my guess is your CPU is getting too hot, but the motherboard isnt aware and doesnt spin up the CPU fan to cool the CPU down. This in turn can cause thermal throttling and can also explain why your scores at 3,6GHz are actually a bit lower, since you upped the voltage a bit for that, which will cause the CPU to throttle even quicker.