A Look Back at Graphics Overclocking with Old Systems: A Journey Through Classic GTA Games

Not catching on fire is a nice bonus, you might be wondering if a better CPU would produce better results. My assumption is no because the graphics are such a huge limitation here. I couldn't see extra CPU power helping out in any way because the GPU is so incredibly weak. Not as weak as it was, but still very weak. Time for an absolute classic now and I don't think I was as adventurous as I could have been with the GTA San Andreas settings. I stuck with 800 by 600 and the low preset albeit with draw distance maxed out. We could have cranked the settings and resolution up a little bit, I'm sure, but at least these lower settings helped account for the 1 and 1% lows which did drop under 60 so again not a completely Flawless experience.

But growing up playing this game at 25 FPS on PS2, I think the PAL version was 25 FPS anyway. So yeah, I'm not too fussed if we look at the on-screen comparative results once again it's clear to see another nice improvement with doubled clock speeds. I wonder if this is possible with Intel GMA Graphics because any help with my mom's old seller on build would have been incredibly welcome to me 15 years ago.

Let's move on to another GTA game then, one that still somehow runs on this old onboard solution. Grand Theft Auto 5 is up next. You'll have to use the fact that for some reason my capture card stretched the game to full screen during recording. Everything's a bit squashed it looks like someone's overclocked the gravity at 800 by 600 with 50% scaling in the lowest game settings. The game still wasn't playable as expected, but that said it was still a bit better than the performance with stock speeds so that's a plus. There was even a moment possibly two where I saw 30 FPS. Sure, I might have been looking at the sky or at the ground, but I'll never forget that 30 frames per second experience. It reminded me of the first time I saw 60 FPS for the first time after upgrading an old PC when I was a teenager. It was almost like I had seen a miracle.

Courtesy of an FX CPU and HD7870, I missed that rig in Minecraft. The windows edition whatever it's called properly we were even able to play at 1080P and hit nearly 60 frames per second with the overclocked onboard GPU. Sorry about the tiny MSI After Burner display in the top left corner, cor I was expecting another low resolution mess so I didn't adjust it before recording this. This is another game where the overclock made a big difference because our average figure jumped by nearly 20 FPS. Sure we weren't doing much on screen here just chopping down a few trees and building a base for my house in the forest that'll finish at some point in the next decade still.

This is probably the best result of the day so far anyway, but can vanilla Skyrim do any better? The answer to that is of course no which I think we were all expecting. But once again our performance did go from not very playable to almost playable sort of and in some instances 30 FPS was achievable. I'm not just talking about GTA 5 levels of achievable like by looking at the floor or the sky, I'm talking about quite a common occurrence even in busy areas like Riverwood.

I might be a bit late to the party with this motherboard Graphics overclocking stuff, I don't know because it certainly would have helped me out a decade or so ago. That's for sure when I was using my mom's PC with a Celeron 1200 and Intel GMA Graphics. Then again the motherboard was quite awful and it probably didn't have the ability to do this if you do have a motherboard that's capable of this though like my 760g chipset based one, I've used today.

Hopefully this video can still help some of you out if not well it's certainly been fun seeing what effect this little bit of tweaking had on this old system. It took absolutely no effort to hit a 100% overclock either and I thought we'd certainly run into a few blue screens here and there but I'd still recommend adding an extra system fan just in case and maybe you want to stick everything on an open air test bench too after all fire isn't your friend and you certainly don't want to end up with a bunch of fried components if that's even possible to do when tweaking the onboard graphics.

That's all for this video, then thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed it leave a like leave a dislike if you didn't let me know if you've ever tried this out and if you have I'd love to hear about your experiences Down Below in the comments subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see all of you in the next one.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome to another video now this is the gigabyte g78 LMT s2p am3 plus motherboard installed in the CPU socket is the Phenom 2x6 1090t the Phenom has no integrated Graphics but unlike today's non Apu ryzen chips we don't need a discrete graphics card to get a display on our monitor the reason for that is because the motherboard itself has an onboard GPU it's not very good and it never was but it does mean that we can use this processor in a system without a graphics card not only that but we can overlock these motherboard Graphics too we've tried gaming on motherboard Graphics before using a different CPU and motherboard chipset but I've got to talk about overclocking because as you'll see it's possible to get some pretty decent gains even if gaming performance is still terrible for the most part it all starts with the BIOS to overclock on board Graphics we need to get into the BIOS in the case of this board by hitting the delete key on boot from there we go into the advanced bios features menu and then igx configuration here we've got all the options regarding our onboard radon 3000 GPU the frame buffer size can be left at Auto that way the system can automatically decide how much memory to allocate to certain tasks rather than it be limited by plus what we want to change is the core clock control by default the enbal graphics are clocked at just 350 MHz but I found that this can be double to 700 without adjusting anything else that's a 100% overclock straight out of the box I then added this system fan into the equation just to direct some cool air onto the chipsets heat sink how effective this was well I don't know but it made me feel better about my haphazard frequency increase please excuse the quality of the gameplay footage today but this was captured one to one so what you're seeing here is exactly what you'll get apart from the compression after upload Etc also please forgive my enthusiasm with the onboard metrics I wrote HD 3000 graphics but there's nothing HD about any of this so let's just cross that out shall we the game I tested first of all with nothing but our now overclocked onboard Radeon GPU was called Black Ops I've included some comparative results to the stock 350 MHz results as well so that I can show you just how much of a difference there is with the overclock Black Ops 800 by 600 with the lowest settings ran with over 30 FPS here now that doesn't sound great and it's definitely not consistently playable but before overclocking the onboard motherboard Graphics we were getting less than 25 FPS not to mention the 1.1% lows were quite a bit worse beforehand too csgo also went from terrible to not as terrible with 30 FPS being achieved thanks to our overclock don't get me wrong the 1.1% lows do mean that the experience overall isn't very consistent just like before and the remaining performance issues will likely affect your chances at remaining competitive but an improvement is still an improvement and with a 13 FPS increase to the average FPS metric I can't complain especially as this performance game cost no money whatsoever I didn't think overclocking motherboard Graphics was possible until about 3 days ago so to see it working and not catching on fire is a nice bonus you might be wondering if a better CPU would produce better results my assumption is no because the graphics are such a huge limitation here I can't see extra CPU power helping out in any way because the GPU is so incredibly weak not as weak as it was but still very weak time for an absolute classic now and I don't think I was as adventurous as I could have been with the GTA San Andreas settings I stuck with 800 by 600 and the low preset albeit with draw distance maxed out we could have cranked the settings and resolution up a little bit I'm sure but at least these lower settings helped account for the 1 and. 1% lows which did drop under 60 so again not a completely Flawless experience but I grew up playing this game at 25 FPS on PS2 I think the pal version was 25 FPS anyway so yeah I'm not too fussed if we look at the onscreen comparative results once again it's clear to see another nice improvement with doubled clock speeds I wonder if this is possible with Intel GMA Graphics because any help with my mom's old seller on build would have been incredibly welcome to me 15 years ago let's move on to another GTA game then one that still somehow runs on this old onboard solution Grand Theft Auto 5 is up next you'll have to use the fact that for some reason my capture card stretched the game to full screen during recording everything's a bit squashed it looks like someone's overclocked the gravity at 800 by 600 with 50% scaling in the lowest game settings the game still wasn't playable as expected that said it was still a bit better than the performance with stock speeds so that's a plus there was even a moment possibly two where I saw 30 FPS sure I might have been looking at the sky or at the ground but I'll never forget that bre 30 frames per second experience it reminded me of the first time I saw 60 FPS for the first time after upgrading an old PC when I was a teenager it was almost like I had seen a miracle courtesy of an fx CPU and hd7870 I missed that rig in Minecraft the windows edition whatever it's called properly we were even able to play at 1080P and hit nearly 60 frames per second with the overclocked onboard GPU sorry about the tiny MSI After Burner display in the top left corner cor I was expecting another low resolution mess so I didn't adjust it before recording this is another game where the overclock made a big difference because our average figure jumped by nearly 20 FPS sure we weren't doing much on screen here just chopping down a few trees and building a base for my house in the forest that'll finish at some point in the next decade still this is probably the best result of the day so far anyway but can vanilla Skyrim do any better the answer to that is of course no which I think we were all expecting but once again our performance did go from not very playable to almost playable sort of and in some instances 30 FPS was achievable I'm not just talking about GTA 5 levels of achievable like by looking at the floor or the sky I'm talking about quite a common occurrence even in busy areas like Riverwood I might be a bit late to the party with this motherboard Graphics overclocking stuff I don't know because it certainly would have helped me out a decade or so ago that's for sure when I was using my mom's PC with a Celeron 1200 and Intel GMA Graphics then again the motherboard was quite awful and it probably didn't have the ability to do this if you do have a motherboard that's capable of this though like my 760g chipset based one I've used today and want to squeeze some more performance out of your system well hopefully this video can still help some of you out if not well it's certainly been fun seeing what effect the this little bit of tweaking had on this old system it took absolutely no effort to hit a 100% overclock either and I thought we'd certainly run into a few blue screens here and there but I'd still recommend adding an extra system fan just in case and maybe you want to stick everything on an open air test bench too after all fire isn't your friend and you certainly don't want to end up with a bunch of fried components if that's even possible to do when tweaking the onboard graphics that's all for this video then thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed it leave a like leave a dislike if you didn't let me know if you've ever tried this out and if you have I'd love to hear about your experiences Down Below in the comments subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see all of you in the next onehello everyone and welcome to another video now this is the gigabyte g78 LMT s2p am3 plus motherboard installed in the CPU socket is the Phenom 2x6 1090t the Phenom has no integrated Graphics but unlike today's non Apu ryzen chips we don't need a discrete graphics card to get a display on our monitor the reason for that is because the motherboard itself has an onboard GPU it's not very good and it never was but it does mean that we can use this processor in a system without a graphics card not only that but we can overlock these motherboard Graphics too we've tried gaming on motherboard Graphics before using a different CPU and motherboard chipset but I've got to talk about overclocking because as you'll see it's possible to get some pretty decent gains even if gaming performance is still terrible for the most part it all starts with the BIOS to overclock on board Graphics we need to get into the BIOS in the case of this board by hitting the delete key on boot from there we go into the advanced bios features menu and then igx configuration here we've got all the options regarding our onboard radon 3000 GPU the frame buffer size can be left at Auto that way the system can automatically decide how much memory to allocate to certain tasks rather than it be limited by plus what we want to change is the core clock control by default the enbal graphics are clocked at just 350 MHz but I found that this can be double to 700 without adjusting anything else that's a 100% overclock straight out of the box I then added this system fan into the equation just to direct some cool air onto the chipsets heat sink how effective this was well I don't know but it made me feel better about my haphazard frequency increase please excuse the quality of the gameplay footage today but this was captured one to one so what you're seeing here is exactly what you'll get apart from the compression after upload Etc also please forgive my enthusiasm with the onboard metrics I wrote HD 3000 graphics but there's nothing HD about any of this so let's just cross that out shall we the game I tested first of all with nothing but our now overclocked onboard Radeon GPU was called Black Ops I've included some comparative results to the stock 350 MHz results as well so that I can show you just how much of a difference there is with the overclock Black Ops 800 by 600 with the lowest settings ran with over 30 FPS here now that doesn't sound great and it's definitely not consistently playable but before overclocking the onboard motherboard Graphics we were getting less than 25 FPS not to mention the 1.1% lows were quite a bit worse beforehand too csgo also went from terrible to not as terrible with 30 FPS being achieved thanks to our overclock don't get me wrong the 1.1% lows do mean that the experience overall isn't very consistent just like before and the remaining performance issues will likely affect your chances at remaining competitive but an improvement is still an improvement and with a 13 FPS increase to the average FPS metric I can't complain especially as this performance game cost no money whatsoever I didn't think overclocking motherboard Graphics was possible until about 3 days ago so to see it working and not catching on fire is a nice bonus you might be wondering if a better CPU would produce better results my assumption is no because the graphics are such a huge limitation here I can't see extra CPU power helping out in any way because the GPU is so incredibly weak not as weak as it was but still very weak time for an absolute classic now and I don't think I was as adventurous as I could have been with the GTA San Andreas settings I stuck with 800 by 600 and the low preset albeit with draw distance maxed out we could have cranked the settings and resolution up a little bit I'm sure but at least these lower settings helped account for the 1 and. 1% lows which did drop under 60 so again not a completely Flawless experience but I grew up playing this game at 25 FPS on PS2 I think the pal version was 25 FPS anyway so yeah I'm not too fussed if we look at the onscreen comparative results once again it's clear to see another nice improvement with doubled clock speeds I wonder if this is possible with Intel GMA Graphics because any help with my mom's old seller on build would have been incredibly welcome to me 15 years ago let's move on to another GTA game then one that still somehow runs on this old onboard solution Grand Theft Auto 5 is up next you'll have to use the fact that for some reason my capture card stretched the game to full screen during recording everything's a bit squashed it looks like someone's overclocked the gravity at 800 by 600 with 50% scaling in the lowest game settings the game still wasn't playable as expected that said it was still a bit better than the performance with stock speeds so that's a plus there was even a moment possibly two where I saw 30 FPS sure I might have been looking at the sky or at the ground but I'll never forget that bre 30 frames per second experience it reminded me of the first time I saw 60 FPS for the first time after upgrading an old PC when I was a teenager it was almost like I had seen a miracle courtesy of an fx CPU and hd7870 I missed that rig in Minecraft the windows edition whatever it's called properly we were even able to play at 1080P and hit nearly 60 frames per second with the overclocked onboard GPU sorry about the tiny MSI After Burner display in the top left corner cor I was expecting another low resolution mess so I didn't adjust it before recording this is another game where the overclock made a big difference because our average figure jumped by nearly 20 FPS sure we weren't doing much on screen here just chopping down a few trees and building a base for my house in the forest that'll finish at some point in the next decade still this is probably the best result of the day so far anyway but can vanilla Skyrim do any better the answer to that is of course no which I think we were all expecting but once again our performance did go from not very playable to almost playable sort of and in some instances 30 FPS was achievable I'm not just talking about GTA 5 levels of achievable like by looking at the floor or the sky I'm talking about quite a common occurrence even in busy areas like Riverwood I might be a bit late to the party with this motherboard Graphics overclocking stuff I don't know because it certainly would have helped me out a decade or so ago that's for sure when I was using my mom's PC with a Celeron 1200 and Intel GMA Graphics then again the motherboard was quite awful and it probably didn't have the ability to do this if you do have a motherboard that's capable of this though like my 760g chipset based one I've used today and want to squeeze some more performance out of your system well hopefully this video can still help some of you out if not well it's certainly been fun seeing what effect the this little bit of tweaking had on this old system it took absolutely no effort to hit a 100% overclock either and I thought we'd certainly run into a few blue screens here and there but I'd still recommend adding an extra system fan just in case and maybe you want to stick everything on an open air test bench too after all fire isn't your friend and you certainly don't want to end up with a bunch of fried components if that's even possible to do when tweaking the onboard graphics that's all for this video then thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed it leave a like leave a dislike if you didn't let me know if you've ever tried this out and if you have I'd love to hear about your experiences Down Below in the comments subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see all of you in the next one\n"