Overkill Is BEAUTIFUL, But Will It Overclock?

**Pushing the Limits: Overclocking the 360**

As we delved into the world of overclocking, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. Our goal was to push the AMD Radeon RX 360 graphics card to its limits and see what kind of performance increase we could achieve.

Initially, we started with a modest approach, incrementally increasing the core frequency to see how stable it would remain. The first few attempts yielded promising results, but as we approached the 2200 megahertz mark, the system began to exhibit some instability.

Undeterred, we decided to push on and see what kind of performance jump we could get from the card. At one point, we managed to reach a staggering 2212 megahertz, only to have the game crash shortly thereafter. This was a clear indication that we were getting close to the limits of the card's capabilities.

After some trial and error, we eventually settled on a stable core frequency of around 2160 megahertz. While this wasn't as high as we had hoped for, it still represented a significant overclocking achievement.

Next, we turned our attention to memory overclocking. We started with an aggressive approach, pushing the clock speed to plus 1000 megahertz, which seemed to work without any issues. As we continued to experiment, we pushed the clock speed even higher, eventually reaching plus 1200 megahertz before encountering stability issues.

Despite not achieving our maximum core frequency potential, we were still able to get a significant performance increase from the card. The final result was a frame rate of around 98 frames per second, which represented an impressive 9% increase over the stock settings.

While this may not be a staggering overclocking achievement by modern standards, it was still a fun and rewarding experience to see what we could get out of the card. And who knows? Maybe with some further tweaking and experimentation, we can squeeze even more performance out of this beast of a graphics card!

**Stay tuned for our upcoming video where we compare the Aliexpress system (where this graphics card is from) to a local Canadian pre-built with similar specs!**

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin my last video i had a look at a thousand four hundred dollar aliexpress gaming pc which aside from looking like it was involved in a coup at some point during its shipping it was surprisingly good and it came with this chode beast of the 3060 which after an hour-long gaming session in a case without particularly good airflow it barely broke 56 degrees celsius and i think that means today we're gonna have to overclock the snot out of it now before we go to town overclocking this asus rtx 3060 tough gaming i think we should have a closer look at the cooler because it is real sexy it's got a huge fin stack with five pretty chunky heat pipes spreading heat around the cooler there is a lot of space all over the shroud so that you can have a lot of air moving through the cooler it has three fans that have huge amounts of marketing around how they're more penetrative than fans with less marketing around them and the actual shroud is metal which i haven't seen in a while uh so is the back plate and another thing that i like about this cooler is that it's going to be really easy to remove in order to clean and re-paste and whatever as you can see you've only got eight screws to deal with to remove the entire cooler which for something this size is pretty good so let's open it up and have a look what's going on with the pcb and there goes our warranty no i think it's just the thermal pads and stuff that's holding on for dear life there we go remove these clips for the fans and i'm guessing the rgb actually before we have a closer look at this let's have a closer look at the coolers undercarriage nice now moving over to the pcb we see that rtx 3060 die with quite a thin film of thermal paste on it however all the memory modules are very completely covered with thermal pads and off to the left of the gpu we have six phases here there's actually one missing so that makes me think that they use the same pcb for like the 3060 ti version of the card probably then they can just kind of add a phase in there and then i think under this plate we have a couple more power phases so let me remove that and have a closer look i actually don't want to remove that thermal pad and break it it feels like it's going to break so yes under there we have an additional two phases and that is actually quite a substantial power delivery for a gpu like this yeah it's it's quite a beautiful pcb so with that let's reassemble it and then start with our tests now that we have our graphics card in our test system with its 11 900k and 16 gigs of ddr4 at 3200 megahertz let's get a baseline reading of temperatures and frame rate as you can see we're still sitting under 60 degrees celsius with a boost frequency of 1935 megahertz it's been sitting like that pretty much the entire time we've been gaming and that is a very solid baseline so let's do the actual benchmark run so that we can get that performance figure and see how much more performance we can squeeze out of this chode beast now we're gonna start our overclock by seeing what the max core frequency is that we can get oh damn okay so we're up to 21 22 megahertz about there with a plus 190 on uh msi afterburner and it's running uh we've barely gained any additional temperature if anything really okay let's see if we can push the core a little bit further than that uh let's take this up to 200 oh hell yeah 21 37 megahertz on the core now which is that's pretty high still under 60 degrees celsius as well the coolers barely noticed that anything's changed this thing is so overkill um but yeah okay let's see if we can take it a bit further to ten ooh 2145 megahertz there hasn't even been a mild hiccup yet it's just trucking a lot oh i was hoping i could get that guy there okay let's try let's try another step up hopefully it doesn't crash okay we're at 21.52 now it did briefly hit 2160 and there didn't seem to be a problem uh but this is this is going well i i think we're going to be able to get a reasonable performance jump out of this card damn i think we may have potentially won the silicon lottery with this 360. and we're still not over 60c okay okay okay the next one's gonna make a crash it has to right like this is this is already getting ridiculous to 60 okay i really want to get it over 2200 i really really want to get it over 2200. 22.12 and it hasn't crashed what oh no ah no 2212 is too much for it okay the game's crashed there but i'm gonna try and drop it a little bit and see if we can get it stable above 2200 megahertz one hour later now unfortunately we got a bit debated there in terms of max core overclock expectation in reality uh the benchmark was only stable at around 2160ish megahertz which is still a very big overclock but you know not as big as we were expecting anyway with this it led to a little bit of a performance increase but we still have to overclock our memory and see what that does now when it comes to memory overclock i'm going to be really brave and start with plus 000 megahertz now i watched a js2 sensor video on him overclocking it to 3060 and he got even higher than that so yeah let's see if that works oh yes plus 1000 seems to have worked no problem now we do need to have some debating range kind of worked into our overclocking expectation here let's try a thousand one hundred um it seems to be fine ah damn okay let's try even higher let's see 200 so we're sitting at 2160 ish on the core which is over 200 megahertz higher and we're sitting at 8700 on the memory do we try do we try a bit higher yeah i think why not that is a very aggressive overclock okay let's try a little bit higher but it's already starting to feel a bit unstable so i'm actually going to keep track of that because i think 1200 is gonna be the way to go i think we're definitely in debating range now though yeah no there we go there it's crashed so plus a thousand three hundred and fifty was just too much for it uh let's try here and then see if we can finish a benchmark run now after finding our max stable core and memory overclock i did go back and try and push the core and memory frequencies a little bit independently but i couldn't get anything higher stable unfortunately i don't really know what happened with that initial core frequency test where we got like 2200 megahertz on the core but apparently we spooked the little graphics card and it never replicated that again unfortunately but when all is said and done with our max core and memory overclock we got this frame rate which is up from 98 frames per second and this means that after four hours spent overclocking we got about a nine percent performance increase which isn't a whole lot to be honest you probably wouldn't notice that in a blind test which is unfortunate but that doesn't mean that i didn't enjoy pushing this graphics card to the limit uh it's always fun to see what you can get out of it but truth be told the answer is usually about nine um yeah but anyway that brings me to the end of the video now do subscribe to the channel because on saturday we have a video coming where i compare the aliexpress system where this graphics card's from to a local canadian pre-built with pretty much the exact same specs i think it's going to be a really good video i've already bought the system and everything so yeah subscribe if you don't want to miss that and until that video bye he shot the gun not too fizzyin my last video i had a look at a thousand four hundred dollar aliexpress gaming pc which aside from looking like it was involved in a coup at some point during its shipping it was surprisingly good and it came with this chode beast of the 3060 which after an hour-long gaming session in a case without particularly good airflow it barely broke 56 degrees celsius and i think that means today we're gonna have to overclock the snot out of it now before we go to town overclocking this asus rtx 3060 tough gaming i think we should have a closer look at the cooler because it is real sexy it's got a huge fin stack with five pretty chunky heat pipes spreading heat around the cooler there is a lot of space all over the shroud so that you can have a lot of air moving through the cooler it has three fans that have huge amounts of marketing around how they're more penetrative than fans with less marketing around them and the actual shroud is metal which i haven't seen in a while uh so is the back plate and another thing that i like about this cooler is that it's going to be really easy to remove in order to clean and re-paste and whatever as you can see you've only got eight screws to deal with to remove the entire cooler which for something this size is pretty good so let's open it up and have a look what's going on with the pcb and there goes our warranty no i think it's just the thermal pads and stuff that's holding on for dear life there we go remove these clips for the fans and i'm guessing the rgb actually before we have a closer look at this let's have a closer look at the coolers undercarriage nice now moving over to the pcb we see that rtx 3060 die with quite a thin film of thermal paste on it however all the memory modules are very completely covered with thermal pads and off to the left of the gpu we have six phases here there's actually one missing so that makes me think that they use the same pcb for like the 3060 ti version of the card probably then they can just kind of add a phase in there and then i think under this plate we have a couple more power phases so let me remove that and have a closer look i actually don't want to remove that thermal pad and break it it feels like it's going to break so yes under there we have an additional two phases and that is actually quite a substantial power delivery for a gpu like this yeah it's it's quite a beautiful pcb so with that let's reassemble it and then start with our tests now that we have our graphics card in our test system with its 11 900k and 16 gigs of ddr4 at 3200 megahertz let's get a baseline reading of temperatures and frame rate as you can see we're still sitting under 60 degrees celsius with a boost frequency of 1935 megahertz it's been sitting like that pretty much the entire time we've been gaming and that is a very solid baseline so let's do the actual benchmark run so that we can get that performance figure and see how much more performance we can squeeze out of this chode beast now we're gonna start our overclock by seeing what the max core frequency is that we can get oh damn okay so we're up to 21 22 megahertz about there with a plus 190 on uh msi afterburner and it's running uh we've barely gained any additional temperature if anything really okay let's see if we can push the core a little bit further than that uh let's take this up to 200 oh hell yeah 21 37 megahertz on the core now which is that's pretty high still under 60 degrees celsius as well the coolers barely noticed that anything's changed this thing is so overkill um but yeah okay let's see if we can take it a bit further to ten ooh 2145 megahertz there hasn't even been a mild hiccup yet it's just trucking a lot oh i was hoping i could get that guy there okay let's try let's try another step up hopefully it doesn't crash okay we're at 21.52 now it did briefly hit 2160 and there didn't seem to be a problem uh but this is this is going well i i think we're going to be able to get a reasonable performance jump out of this card damn i think we may have potentially won the silicon lottery with this 360. and we're still not over 60c okay okay okay the next one's gonna make a crash it has to right like this is this is already getting ridiculous to 60 okay i really want to get it over 2200 i really really want to get it over 2200. 22.12 and it hasn't crashed what oh no ah no 2212 is too much for it okay the game's crashed there but i'm gonna try and drop it a little bit and see if we can get it stable above 2200 megahertz one hour later now unfortunately we got a bit debated there in terms of max core overclock expectation in reality uh the benchmark was only stable at around 2160ish megahertz which is still a very big overclock but you know not as big as we were expecting anyway with this it led to a little bit of a performance increase but we still have to overclock our memory and see what that does now when it comes to memory overclock i'm going to be really brave and start with plus 000 megahertz now i watched a js2 sensor video on him overclocking it to 3060 and he got even higher than that so yeah let's see if that works oh yes plus 1000 seems to have worked no problem now we do need to have some debating range kind of worked into our overclocking expectation here let's try a thousand one hundred um it seems to be fine ah damn okay let's try even higher let's see 200 so we're sitting at 2160 ish on the core which is over 200 megahertz higher and we're sitting at 8700 on the memory do we try do we try a bit higher yeah i think why not that is a very aggressive overclock okay let's try a little bit higher but it's already starting to feel a bit unstable so i'm actually going to keep track of that because i think 1200 is gonna be the way to go i think we're definitely in debating range now though yeah no there we go there it's crashed so plus a thousand three hundred and fifty was just too much for it uh let's try here and then see if we can finish a benchmark run now after finding our max stable core and memory overclock i did go back and try and push the core and memory frequencies a little bit independently but i couldn't get anything higher stable unfortunately i don't really know what happened with that initial core frequency test where we got like 2200 megahertz on the core but apparently we spooked the little graphics card and it never replicated that again unfortunately but when all is said and done with our max core and memory overclock we got this frame rate which is up from 98 frames per second and this means that after four hours spent overclocking we got about a nine percent performance increase which isn't a whole lot to be honest you probably wouldn't notice that in a blind test which is unfortunate but that doesn't mean that i didn't enjoy pushing this graphics card to the limit uh it's always fun to see what you can get out of it but truth be told the answer is usually about nine um yeah but anyway that brings me to the end of the video now do subscribe to the channel because on saturday we have a video coming where i compare the aliexpress system where this graphics card's from to a local canadian pre-built with pretty much the exact same specs i think it's going to be a really good video i've already bought the system and everything so yeah subscribe if you don't want to miss that and until that video bye he shot the gun not too fizzy