I can get it to work sometimes it works for an hour sometimes it works for a minute I always get a crash out of it but I'm gonna be going with the 1.57 gigahertz overclock I'm gonna go ahead and snap this over to the left-hand side it's gonna be real easy to copy and paste these next thing we're gonna need is notepad plus plus this is free to use I'm on a Windows machine you can also use text edit if you're on a Mac machine we're gonna go download this super simple very safe get the Installer go ahead and install it mine's already installed it might just write over it I don't want to run it yet click finish we can close that browser down I'm gonna go ahead take the SD card that I have raspbian installed on and I'm gonna plug it into my PC it's gonna show up as boot mine's F here's my BG inside of here we have a config dot txt file right click edit with notepad plus plus this is gonna open it up I'm gonna snap it over here to the right hand side so there's a lot of stuff in here might look intimidating and it kind of is line 42 this is where we're going to be pasting our overclock profile if you uncomment this by removing this hash tag you're gonna be at 800 megahertz we do not want that we want a higher clock so I'm gonna go with the one point five seven gigahertz I'm just gonna copy all of this copy and paste it right here file save if for some reason you can't overclock whatsoever all you have to do is delete the lines you added just delete these and your overclock will be gone you'll be at the stock 1.4 gigahertz CPU speed and you'll be able to boot right back up so we're here make sure you definitely save file save I've already done so we're gonna close out close out of this we're gonna move over to the Raspberry Pi first thing I'm going to do is actually run a benchmark with the stock CPU speeds no overclock at all then we're gonna run a benchmark at the new overclock of 1.5 7 gigahertz all right so here we are at the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ I'm at the stock speeds I'm gonna run a quick benchmark I'll open up a terminal I've also taken that text file and brought it over here with me on a flash drive we want to find the max frequency that we're running right now we can just copy and paste this this is gonna spit out the max frequency of the CPU 1.4 gigahertz next thing you want to do is install sis bench I already have mine installed so I'm just gonna run it now copy everything right here to run copy paste enter it's gonna take a little while to run this benchmark lower is better with this benchmark total time seventy nine point seven seven five four I'm gonna expand this one point four gigahertz seventy nine point seven seven five four I'm gonna go ahead and do an overclock real quick at one point five seven gigahertz right here and then we're gonna come right back run the same benchmark and I want to show you how much faster it is okay I'm back with the one point five seven overclock I'm going to show you the frequency one point five seven I'm gonna run that benchmark again with the overclock total time was 70.8 373 we finished this benchmark 9 seconds faster than the stock clock so overall nine seconds doesn't sound like a lot for a modern PC but for a small single board computer like the Raspberry Pi nine seconds is a really good gain out of an overclock if you also went ahead and overclocked the GPU you will notice better performance in some games you'll also notice better performance and video playback but overall this is as high as I can get my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and I think it's a pretty decent overclock I really appreciate you guys watching I would love to know what you guys can overclock your Raspberry Pi 3 B+ up to so leave it in the comments but try to be honest about your overclocks I've seen people say they've overclocked the Raspberry Pi 2 to 1.8 gigahertz and it's stable all day I truly don't believe them I do not think it's possible so that's it for this video guys I hope you can overclock your Raspberry Pi 3 B+ on up there I would love to see somebody with 1600 megahertz you can download the text file from the link in the description I'm also leaving a link to notepad plus plus so you can edit your config dot txt if you guys could hit that like button subscribe to the channel for more great content and like always thanks for watching

The author of this article, while enthusiastic about overclocking their Raspberry Pi 3 B+, begins by expressing their frustration with the process. They mention that it often works for a short period but frequently crashes, leading them to experiment with different frequencies in search of stability. The author chooses to go with a 1.57 GHz overclock and uses Notepad++ to edit the configuration file.

To achieve this overclock, the author downloads an Installer from the internet, which is presumably a tool for modifying the Raspberry Pi's firmware. They mention that they have installed this tool before and are confident in its ability to modify the configuration without causing issues. The text also contains information on how to access and edit the `config.txt` file located on the SD card.

The author then takes their SD card, which has the Raspbian operating system installed, and connects it to a computer via USB. They use a terminal window to run a benchmark with the default settings (no overclocking), followed by a new test with the 1.57 GHz frequency applied using the `smbios` tool.

To determine their current processor's maximum frequency, the author uses the `smcstat` command and then runs the `stress-ng` program while watching its output to estimate the CPU performance. This gives them an idea of how much they can push their Raspberry Pi before it becomes unstable.

The article emphasizes that overclocking is a trial-and-error process and notes that anyone attempting to replicate this process should be aware of potential risks, such as reduced stability or damage to the hardware. However, if done correctly, the author claims that a 1.57 GHz overclock provides a significant performance boost for their Raspberry Pi 3 B+.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys is ETA prime back here again today I'm gonna show you how to overclock the new Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but before we get started a word of warning anytime you're overclocking or messing with voltages or frequencies there's always a chance of damaging your hardware from heat or voltage so you got to keep that in mind there is a risk when overclocking so follow this tutorial at your own risk I will not be held responsible if you cut your finger off burn your house down or destroy your Raspberry Pi before you even start thinking about overclocking you will need some kind of CPU cooler on your Raspberry Pi there are several out there for the Raspberry Pi 3 but the problem is a lot of them don't fit the new raspberry pi 3 B+ this is actually one of my favorite coolers but it won't fit the new B+ because we have some pins in the way and the new Wi-Fi blogg it will have to be modified you will have to cut it hopefully the manufacturers will come out with something for the B+ but for right now we're gonna have to be dealing with smaller heat sinks now you can always get these small heat sinks they come with canna kits and things like this but they really don't do a lot with a fan on them I guess they could be sufficient but I recommend getting a bigger heatsink now there's some on Amazon the one I'm using is actually from an Asus tinkerer board but I found some that are almost the exact match on Amazon you can get four for like $10 they do come with thermal pads but it's non adhesive so you're also gonna need some thermally adhesive tape it's pretty cheap on Amazon I'll leave links in the description you could also make your own heatsink out of an old GPU cooler or something like that but you will have to cut it to fit now the thermal adhesive that I use here is this fiberglass thermal adhesive tape it's about eleven dollars for this roll here it'll last me a long time and I've already used a lot of it it actually works really well I use it on all of my single board computers and it's really sticky even though you're using this bigger heat sink here I also recommend a fan because when these CPUs had a certain temperature they start down clocking the speed to keep it cool so your PI will slow down if it gets too hot with a and the heat sink like this you can pretty much go full blast all day long now I'm just gonna go ahead and put some of this thermal tape all my heat sink really easy to do I'm just gonna grab my heat sink line it up with the edge and I'm gonna cut the rest off with an exacto knife right around it just to match it up so I peeled the tape up a little bit here I'm just gonna place it right on my heatsink and I also kept the extra little sliver so I can attach the fan to the top of the heatsink now this isn't the best way to go but it does work so you don't have to manufacture a fan holder or something like that it does work really well like I mentioned this stuff is really sticky so I'm just gonna take another little piece here I'm gonna peel the blue backing off of it then I'm gonna kind of roll it up or just fold it up and this is gonna go right on the back of the fan now make sure your fan is facing the correct direction I know that my fan actually blows out towards the bottom here so it's a perfect match for a heatsink like this just gonna place it right on top of the heatsink it's gonna stick there and I'll plug my fan in to the two GPIO pins 5 volt and ground if you really want to get into it you could build them out or cut a hole in the top of your case if it doesn't accept a fan but for me it works just fine this is gonna be sitting right on my desk and it's gonna keep this Raspberry Pi 3 B+ really cool and now it's time to go ahead and overclock I'm going to be using raspbian but this will work with retropie raspbian or any other operating system that has a config dot txt on the boot partition of the SD card after you flash it the main reason I'm using raspbian in this video is to show you a couple benchmarks after it's overclocked because it does make a difference this method will work on Mac Linux or Windows I'm gonna be moving over to my Windows machine you could always do it all from the Raspberry Pi in the terminal but I always use another machine to add the lines to the config dot txt because it's a lot easier and if anything goes wrong all you have to do is delete those lines let's move over to my Windows PC now and get this thing overclocked before we get started I just want to mention this one more time you use this at your own risk there's always a chance of messing up your Raspberry Pi but in my case these are $35 computers made to tinker with so let's go ahead and overclock I have created a text file you can download it from the description this will come in really handy use at your own risk after you overclock you kind of want to see if it's really overclock so we can do that by opening up a terminal and pasting this right in there this will display the max frequency of the CPU next up you might want to stress test or benchmark if you're running raspbian you can install sis bench really easily sudo apt-get install sis bench then you can run this command here in a terminal and it'll run a syst bench for threads it's gonna max out the CPU we're gonna do a prime benchmark up to 20,000 you can change the 20,000 to whatever you'd like but I find that if you run this two or three times you're pretty much stable and finally we have some overclock profiles here now there's a few to choose from you can mess around with these if you'd like to I'm gonna go over a few of them here 1.45 gigahertz now these stock Raspberry Pi B+ is already at 1.4 gigahertz this is just a 500 megahertz jump we've also overclocked the GPU which will definitely help out with gaming and things like that now it's really up to you which one of these you want to use here's a 1.5 gigahertz with no GPU overclocked just the CPU being overclocked a 1.5 gigahertz 1.5 CPU with 500 megahertz GPU and the one I use here is one point five seven five gigahertz also have a 500 megahertz overclock on the GPU and ram so you might notice this over voltage here it's really doing nothing for these newer raspberry PI's they automatically go up to the correct voltage and the highest that I can get my voltage here is one point three nine four if I could go a little higher I'm sure I could get one point six out of it but that's the max that the new power management system is allowing us to go and the very last overclock a lot of people will not be able to run this is 1600 megahertz if you're able to run this stabili let me know in the comments below please because I can get it to work sometimes it works for an hour sometimes it works for a minute I always get a crash out of it but I'm gonna be going with the 1.57 gigahertz overclock I'm gonna go ahead and snap this over to the left-hand side it's gonna be real easy to copy and paste these next thing we're gonna need is notepad plus plus this is free to use I'm on a Windows machine you can also use text edit if you're on a Mac machine we're gonna go download this super simple very safe get the Installer go ahead and install it mine's already installed it might just write over it I don't want to run it yet click finish we can close that browser down I'm gonna go ahead take the SD card that I have raspbian installed on and I'm gonna plug it into my PC it's gonna show up as boot mine's F here's my BG inside of here we have a config dot txt file right click edit with notepad plus plus this is gonna open it up I'm gonna snap it over here to the right hand side so there's a lot of stuff in here might look intimidating and it kind of is line 42 this is where we're going to be pasting our overclock profile if you uncomment this by removing this hash tag you're gonna be at 800 megahertz we do not want that we want a higher clock so I'm gonna go with the one point five seven gigahertz I'm just gonna copy all of this copy and paste it right here file save if for some reason you can't overclock whatsoever all you have to do is delete the lines you added just delete these and your overclock will be gone you'll be at the stock 1.4 gigahertz CPU speed and you'll be able to boot right back up so we're here make sure you definitely save file save I've already done so we're gonna close out close out of this we're gonna move over to the Raspberry Pi first thing I'm going to do is actually run a benchmark with the stock CPU speeds no overclock at all then we're gonna run a benchmark at the new overclock of 1.5 7 gigahertz all right so here we are at the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ I'm at the stock speeds I'm gonna run a quick benchmark I'll open up a terminal I've also taken that text file and brought it over here with me on a flash drive we want to find the max frequency that we're running right now we can just copy and paste this this is gonna spit out the max frequency of the CPU 1.4 gigahertz next thing you want to do is install sis bench I already have mine installed so I'm just gonna run it now copy everything right here to run copy paste enter it's gonna take a little while to run this benchmark lower is better with this benchmark total time seventy nine point seven seven five four I'm gonna expand this one point four gigahertz seventy nine point seven seven five four I'm gonna go ahead and do an overclock real quick at one point five seven gigahertz right here and then we're gonna come right back run the same benchmark and I want to show you how much faster it is okay I'm back with the one point five seven overclock I'm going to show you the frequency one point five seven I'm gonna run that benchmark again with the overclock total time was 70.8 373 we finished this benchmark 9 seconds faster than the stock clock so overall nine seconds doesn't sound like a lot for a modern PC but for a small single board computer like the Raspberry Pi nine seconds is a really good gain out of an overclock if you also went ahead and overclocked the GPU you will notice better performance in some games you'll also notice better performance and video playback but overall this is as high as I can get my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and I think it's a pretty decent overclock I really appreciate you guys watching I would love to know what you guys can overclock your Raspberry Pi 3 B+ up to so leave it in the comments but try to be honest about your overclocks I've seen people say they've overclocked the Raspberry Pi 2 to 1.8 gigahertz and it's stable all day I truly don't believe them I do not think it's possible so that's it for this video guys I hope you can overclock your Raspberry Pi 3 B+ on up there I would love to see somebody with 1600 megahertz you can download the text file from the link in the description I'm also leaving a link to notepad plus plus so you can edit your config dot txt if you guys could hit that like button subscribe to the channel for more great content and like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on guys is ETA prime back here again today I'm gonna show you how to overclock the new Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but before we get started a word of warning anytime you're overclocking or messing with voltages or frequencies there's always a chance of damaging your hardware from heat or voltage so you got to keep that in mind there is a risk when overclocking so follow this tutorial at your own risk I will not be held responsible if you cut your finger off burn your house down or destroy your Raspberry Pi before you even start thinking about overclocking you will need some kind of CPU cooler on your Raspberry Pi there are several out there for the Raspberry Pi 3 but the problem is a lot of them don't fit the new raspberry pi 3 B+ this is actually one of my favorite coolers but it won't fit the new B+ because we have some pins in the way and the new Wi-Fi blogg it will have to be modified you will have to cut it hopefully the manufacturers will come out with something for the B+ but for right now we're gonna have to be dealing with smaller heat sinks now you can always get these small heat sinks they come with canna kits and things like this but they really don't do a lot with a fan on them I guess they could be sufficient but I recommend getting a bigger heatsink now there's some on Amazon the one I'm using is actually from an Asus tinkerer board but I found some that are almost the exact match on Amazon you can get four for like $10 they do come with thermal pads but it's non adhesive so you're also gonna need some thermally adhesive tape it's pretty cheap on Amazon I'll leave links in the description you could also make your own heatsink out of an old GPU cooler or something like that but you will have to cut it to fit now the thermal adhesive that I use here is this fiberglass thermal adhesive tape it's about eleven dollars for this roll here it'll last me a long time and I've already used a lot of it it actually works really well I use it on all of my single board computers and it's really sticky even though you're using this bigger heat sink here I also recommend a fan because when these CPUs had a certain temperature they start down clocking the speed to keep it cool so your PI will slow down if it gets too hot with a and the heat sink like this you can pretty much go full blast all day long now I'm just gonna go ahead and put some of this thermal tape all my heat sink really easy to do I'm just gonna grab my heat sink line it up with the edge and I'm gonna cut the rest off with an exacto knife right around it just to match it up so I peeled the tape up a little bit here I'm just gonna place it right on my heatsink and I also kept the extra little sliver so I can attach the fan to the top of the heatsink now this isn't the best way to go but it does work so you don't have to manufacture a fan holder or something like that it does work really well like I mentioned this stuff is really sticky so I'm just gonna take another little piece here I'm gonna peel the blue backing off of it then I'm gonna kind of roll it up or just fold it up and this is gonna go right on the back of the fan now make sure your fan is facing the correct direction I know that my fan actually blows out towards the bottom here so it's a perfect match for a heatsink like this just gonna place it right on top of the heatsink it's gonna stick there and I'll plug my fan in to the two GPIO pins 5 volt and ground if you really want to get into it you could build them out or cut a hole in the top of your case if it doesn't accept a fan but for me it works just fine this is gonna be sitting right on my desk and it's gonna keep this Raspberry Pi 3 B+ really cool and now it's time to go ahead and overclock I'm going to be using raspbian but this will work with retropie raspbian or any other operating system that has a config dot txt on the boot partition of the SD card after you flash it the main reason I'm using raspbian in this video is to show you a couple benchmarks after it's overclocked because it does make a difference this method will work on Mac Linux or Windows I'm gonna be moving over to my Windows machine you could always do it all from the Raspberry Pi in the terminal but I always use another machine to add the lines to the config dot txt because it's a lot easier and if anything goes wrong all you have to do is delete those lines let's move over to my Windows PC now and get this thing overclocked before we get started I just want to mention this one more time you use this at your own risk there's always a chance of messing up your Raspberry Pi but in my case these are $35 computers made to tinker with so let's go ahead and overclock I have created a text file you can download it from the description this will come in really handy use at your own risk after you overclock you kind of want to see if it's really overclock so we can do that by opening up a terminal and pasting this right in there this will display the max frequency of the CPU next up you might want to stress test or benchmark if you're running raspbian you can install sis bench really easily sudo apt-get install sis bench then you can run this command here in a terminal and it'll run a syst bench for threads it's gonna max out the CPU we're gonna do a prime benchmark up to 20,000 you can change the 20,000 to whatever you'd like but I find that if you run this two or three times you're pretty much stable and finally we have some overclock profiles here now there's a few to choose from you can mess around with these if you'd like to I'm gonna go over a few of them here 1.45 gigahertz now these stock Raspberry Pi B+ is already at 1.4 gigahertz this is just a 500 megahertz jump we've also overclocked the GPU which will definitely help out with gaming and things like that now it's really up to you which one of these you want to use here's a 1.5 gigahertz with no GPU overclocked just the CPU being overclocked a 1.5 gigahertz 1.5 CPU with 500 megahertz GPU and the one I use here is one point five seven five gigahertz also have a 500 megahertz overclock on the GPU and ram so you might notice this over voltage here it's really doing nothing for these newer raspberry PI's they automatically go up to the correct voltage and the highest that I can get my voltage here is one point three nine four if I could go a little higher I'm sure I could get one point six out of it but that's the max that the new power management system is allowing us to go and the very last overclock a lot of people will not be able to run this is 1600 megahertz if you're able to run this stabili let me know in the comments below please because I can get it to work sometimes it works for an hour sometimes it works for a minute I always get a crash out of it but I'm gonna be going with the 1.57 gigahertz overclock I'm gonna go ahead and snap this over to the left-hand side it's gonna be real easy to copy and paste these next thing we're gonna need is notepad plus plus this is free to use I'm on a Windows machine you can also use text edit if you're on a Mac machine we're gonna go download this super simple very safe get the Installer go ahead and install it mine's already installed it might just write over it I don't want to run it yet click finish we can close that browser down I'm gonna go ahead take the SD card that I have raspbian installed on and I'm gonna plug it into my PC it's gonna show up as boot mine's F here's my BG inside of here we have a config dot txt file right click edit with notepad plus plus this is gonna open it up I'm gonna snap it over here to the right hand side so there's a lot of stuff in here might look intimidating and it kind of is line 42 this is where we're going to be pasting our overclock profile if you uncomment this by removing this hash tag you're gonna be at 800 megahertz we do not want that we want a higher clock so I'm gonna go with the one point five seven gigahertz I'm just gonna copy all of this copy and paste it right here file save if for some reason you can't overclock whatsoever all you have to do is delete the lines you added just delete these and your overclock will be gone you'll be at the stock 1.4 gigahertz CPU speed and you'll be able to boot right back up so we're here make sure you definitely save file save I've already done so we're gonna close out close out of this we're gonna move over to the Raspberry Pi first thing I'm going to do is actually run a benchmark with the stock CPU speeds no overclock at all then we're gonna run a benchmark at the new overclock of 1.5 7 gigahertz all right so here we are at the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ I'm at the stock speeds I'm gonna run a quick benchmark I'll open up a terminal I've also taken that text file and brought it over here with me on a flash drive we want to find the max frequency that we're running right now we can just copy and paste this this is gonna spit out the max frequency of the CPU 1.4 gigahertz next thing you want to do is install sis bench I already have mine installed so I'm just gonna run it now copy everything right here to run copy paste enter it's gonna take a little while to run this benchmark lower is better with this benchmark total time seventy nine point seven seven five four I'm gonna expand this one point four gigahertz seventy nine point seven seven five four I'm gonna go ahead and do an overclock real quick at one point five seven gigahertz right here and then we're gonna come right back run the same benchmark and I want to show you how much faster it is okay I'm back with the one point five seven overclock I'm going to show you the frequency one point five seven I'm gonna run that benchmark again with the overclock total time was 70.8 373 we finished this benchmark 9 seconds faster than the stock clock so overall nine seconds doesn't sound like a lot for a modern PC but for a small single board computer like the Raspberry Pi nine seconds is a really good gain out of an overclock if you also went ahead and overclocked the GPU you will notice better performance in some games you'll also notice better performance and video playback but overall this is as high as I can get my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and I think it's a pretty decent overclock I really appreciate you guys watching I would love to know what you guys can overclock your Raspberry Pi 3 B+ up to so leave it in the comments but try to be honest about your overclocks I've seen people say they've overclocked the Raspberry Pi 2 to 1.8 gigahertz and it's stable all day I truly don't believe them I do not think it's possible so that's it for this video guys I hope you can overclock your Raspberry Pi 3 B+ on up there I would love to see somebody with 1600 megahertz you can download the text file from the link in the description I'm also leaving a link to notepad plus plus so you can edit your config dot txt if you guys could hit that like button subscribe to the channel for more great content and like always thanks for watching\n"