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**Building a Gaming PC with a Hyper 212 Black Edition Air Cooler**

In this video, I decided to take a different approach to building a gaming PC by using an air cooler instead of a traditional liquid cooling system. I chose the Hyper 212 Black Edition cooler because it's a popular choice among enthusiasts and has been shown to be effective in keeping temperatures low.

First, I opened up my case and removed the existing power button cover, which allowed me to access the motherboard and install the new cooler. Since the motherboard didn't have fan headers, I had to use an external power supply with a fan controller to plug in the fan. I also had to "jump" the power supply to keep it running continuously.

I know some people might think this is a weird solution, but I'm confident that it will work. In fact, gravity can create reasonable thermal contact with the tower cooler, and I've established in previous videos that this is an effective way to cool a CPU.

Now, let's get started with the build! First, I had to find a molex to fan connector thingy, which was not pretty but hopefully it works. And yes, there really aren't many things in the world I hate more than Molex... but look at that we got it!

As you can see, this is getting pretty crazy and not safe for work here we've got some naked laptop contact going on... but that's just part of the process.

Okay, now that everything is installed, let's run some benchmarks and see what kind of performance gain we get. With the cooler in place, I'm expecting to see a big boost in gaming performance.

So, I ran a few benchmarking tests using the same game, and the results were surprising! The system was able to maintain a temperature that's very low, even under full load. In fact, it looked like the core frequency of the CPU was nice and high, and the boost frequency of the APU was also very high.

As you can see in the temperatures below, I guess that's what happens when you put a Hyper 212 Black Edition on like a 20 watt TDP APU. Even under full load, the temperatures are only around 38 degrees Celsius!

Now that we've unshackled the beast of thermal limitations, let's try and push this TDP rating up! I'm going to take it to 35 watts and see what that does.

And yes, checking this monitoring while running a game shows that it actually uses about 35 watts... so why not? Let's go for it!

Unfortunately, we've hit a little bit of a brick wall here because no matter how much extra power I let the system endow the chip with, it can't really do anything with it. Unfortunately, I couldn't overclock the iGPU more or just the CPU either.

We're also running into memory limitations because we don't have any BIOS features for overclocking on this motherboard. We can't allocate more memory to the actual IGPU, so that's a problem as well.

Unfortunately, this is kind of all she wrote... but we did get a pretty surprising boost in gaming performance from the system, which is pretty cool!

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's video is again brimming with consumer advice basically i'm going to show you how to overclock the balls off of your amd ryzen apu based ultrabook that's definitely a topic i think that would appeal to the average ultrabook user the exact laptop that we're looking at today is this which is the asus vivobook 14. now this laptop i bought from an amazon warehouse deal about a month ago to see if those deals are worth it if you haven't seen that video go check it out i'll have it linked in the description below i kind of forgot what happened in that video but i think it was interesting now the main reason that this little loser book is interesting to me is the fact that it's got a ryzen 3 3200u apu in it which is a dual core 4 thread cpu with vega 3 graphics built in now the vega 3i gpu is essentially the same igpu that you find in the athlon 200 ge now that is a very budget focused desktop apu but in good conditions you can kind of play the occasional game on it the thing is though this 3200u in here is not only shackled by the thermal constraints of the tiny little cooler on it but this laptop also only has four gigs of ram and considering how an apu works it means that you've only got 500 megs of video memory for the igpu and 3.5 gigs of system memory for the cpu and neither of those are enough so we're going to have to sort out the thermal solution and add some more ram and then maybe we can overclock the balls off of this apu to get some decent gaming performance but before we do any of that let's see what kind of baseline gaming performance we get from this shackled little ryzen 3 apu oh and then just quickly before we get into the baseline benchmarks for this video because i'm gonna have to contort the laptop into some weird positions for the overclocking section of this video i'm actually gonna benchmark all of the games on an external monitor at 1080p now the exact monitor was actually sent over by gigabyte it's the gigabyte g27f which is a 250 1080p high refresh rate ips monitor which is which is pretty good i'll have it linked in the description below okay so clearly this system is not designed to game at 1080p even at low settings gta 5 which is a pretty old game yeah it's it's it's not what i'd call playable now the first thing that i'm gonna do to try and improve this performance is alleviate the massive memory bottleneck that we have here because 500 megs of video memory is very little so what i did was bought this 16 gig stick of of ddr4 and look at how cute it is it's so tiny if you compare it to a normal stick of ram it's so little ah there we go it feels super consensual every time so this is what we're working with here and as you can see we only have access to one ram slot and that's actually why i bought this single 16 gig stick as opposed to two sticks because there's ram soldered onto the other side i'm assuming here we can see the root of our cooling issue that's not a particularly beefy cooling solution we have going there so i'm going to replace that with something a lot more badass later on let's just slip this ram in here you put it in and then that was really easy so just like that we've got 20 gigs of ram in the system which will completely remove the ram bottleneck situation hopefully we'll see how much of a performance difference that makes that made a pretty big difference the results are a lot more playable in both gta 5 and rainbow six siege there's still not amazing results but they're they're definitely better now the next step is gonna just to try and see what the limits are of the current thermal solution in here now what i'm gonna have to do is considering that this isn't a gaming laptop with any kind of overclocking features the best way to actually get more power to the apu is by using this ryzen controller software to actually increase the wattage that gets supplied to the apu so that it can run at higher frequencies this may not go very well considering the actual cooling solution on this chip so let's see what happens if we take it from 15 watts to 25 watts oh wow we actually kneecapped the gaming performance in that one it's a bit weird but there's a good reason for that basically what would happen is the apu would clock itself higher uh for a little bit giving better gaming performance but then it would very quickly hit that 86 degree celsius thermal limit that i set for it and then the frame rate would kind of tank now we need to get to the meat and bananas of this video we're gonna put some better cooling on this laptop and see what happens what is the maximum unshackled performance of a 3200u okay let's have a look oh it comes off nice and easy we've got thermal paste application over here it's such a tiny little chip look at that this is how i'm gonna go about my first attempt at doing some better cooling on that little apu now this looks a bit janky and i promise you that it is going to be pretty jacky but i'm pretty sure it's going to work now the reason that i have it propped on two ryzen boxes is that i still need access to the power button and i have it open upside down like this because i'm just going to take the air cooler i'm going to put some thermal paste between the two and then just kind of rest it on there now i've established in a previous video that gravity is kind of enough to create reasonable thermal contact with a tower cooler like this so i actually think this is gonna work i'm pretty confident that this isn't gonna be a disaster the only issue is this motherboard doesn't actually have like fan headers so i'm gonna have to use like an external power supply with a fan controller to be able to plug the fan in and then i'm just gonna jump the power supply so that it's running the whole time but i think this is a pretty ingenious solution to my problem but first we have to do the very important neck or test okay now niko-chan which one do you prefer this one or this one oh oh well i mean it seems like he's onsite so i've just spent about 20 minutes looking and i finally found this molex to fan connector thing so i'm just going to kind of wait is that oh i have to admit there really aren't many things in the world i hate more than molex but look at that we got it in it's not pretty but hopefully it works now it's clearly starting to become pretty pretty not safe for work here we've got some some naked laptop contact going on here and i'm really excited to see how this is gonna perform i mean i feel like this is a 100 legitimate way to game right like this is just this is how everybody should game the problem with this setup is if you get over excited that cooler is just going to tumble onto the desk which is not something you want happening mid gaming session no way look at those temperatures i guess that's what happens when you put a hyper 212 black edition on like a 20 watt tdp apu even under full load you're getting 38 degrees celsius so as you can see the core frequency of the cpu is nice and high and the boost frequency of the apu is also very high and it's obviously gonna stay there because well the temperatures are just so low like it's it's it's not got to worry about anything so let's run some benchmarks see what kind of performance gain we get and then we just try and push it until it explodes so now that we've unshackled the beast of thermal limitations let's try and push this tdp rating up here oh not 55 oh no okay i'm just gonna do that okay so we're gonna take it to 35 see what that does and then uh we're also gonna increase the maximum frequency on the gpu so this way it still is in charge of what it does itself um but it can go until it feels it's not safe anymore i'm just gonna be stupid about it now and take it all the way up to like 55 why not let's see what it does because uh checking this monitoring while running a game it does actually use about 35 watts so yeah if we push it higher better right now unfortunately we've hit a little bit of a brick wall here because no matter how much extra power we let the system endow the chip with it can't really do anything with it and unfortunately i can't overclock the igpu more or just the cpu either and we're also running into memory limitations because we don't have any bios features for overclocking on this motherboard i can't allocate more memory to the actual igpu so we're hitting a vram limitation as well at this point so unfortunately this is kind of all she wrote but we did get more than a hundred percent performance uplift from the system which is pretty cool i actually think this went really well and we got a pretty surprising boost in gaming performance from this so with that if you enjoyed the video thank you very much for watching subscribe to the channel like the video for more content like this check out my patreon and all of that stuff linked in the description below and until the next video bye youtoday's video is again brimming with consumer advice basically i'm going to show you how to overclock the balls off of your amd ryzen apu based ultrabook that's definitely a topic i think that would appeal to the average ultrabook user the exact laptop that we're looking at today is this which is the asus vivobook 14. now this laptop i bought from an amazon warehouse deal about a month ago to see if those deals are worth it if you haven't seen that video go check it out i'll have it linked in the description below i kind of forgot what happened in that video but i think it was interesting now the main reason that this little loser book is interesting to me is the fact that it's got a ryzen 3 3200u apu in it which is a dual core 4 thread cpu with vega 3 graphics built in now the vega 3i gpu is essentially the same igpu that you find in the athlon 200 ge now that is a very budget focused desktop apu but in good conditions you can kind of play the occasional game on it the thing is though this 3200u in here is not only shackled by the thermal constraints of the tiny little cooler on it but this laptop also only has four gigs of ram and considering how an apu works it means that you've only got 500 megs of video memory for the igpu and 3.5 gigs of system memory for the cpu and neither of those are enough so we're going to have to sort out the thermal solution and add some more ram and then maybe we can overclock the balls off of this apu to get some decent gaming performance but before we do any of that let's see what kind of baseline gaming performance we get from this shackled little ryzen 3 apu oh and then just quickly before we get into the baseline benchmarks for this video because i'm gonna have to contort the laptop into some weird positions for the overclocking section of this video i'm actually gonna benchmark all of the games on an external monitor at 1080p now the exact monitor was actually sent over by gigabyte it's the gigabyte g27f which is a 250 1080p high refresh rate ips monitor which is which is pretty good i'll have it linked in the description below okay so clearly this system is not designed to game at 1080p even at low settings gta 5 which is a pretty old game yeah it's it's it's not what i'd call playable now the first thing that i'm gonna do to try and improve this performance is alleviate the massive memory bottleneck that we have here because 500 megs of video memory is very little so what i did was bought this 16 gig stick of of ddr4 and look at how cute it is it's so tiny if you compare it to a normal stick of ram it's so little ah there we go it feels super consensual every time so this is what we're working with here and as you can see we only have access to one ram slot and that's actually why i bought this single 16 gig stick as opposed to two sticks because there's ram soldered onto the other side i'm assuming here we can see the root of our cooling issue that's not a particularly beefy cooling solution we have going there so i'm going to replace that with something a lot more badass later on let's just slip this ram in here you put it in and then that was really easy so just like that we've got 20 gigs of ram in the system which will completely remove the ram bottleneck situation hopefully we'll see how much of a performance difference that makes that made a pretty big difference the results are a lot more playable in both gta 5 and rainbow six siege there's still not amazing results but they're they're definitely better now the next step is gonna just to try and see what the limits are of the current thermal solution in here now what i'm gonna have to do is considering that this isn't a gaming laptop with any kind of overclocking features the best way to actually get more power to the apu is by using this ryzen controller software to actually increase the wattage that gets supplied to the apu so that it can run at higher frequencies this may not go very well considering the actual cooling solution on this chip so let's see what happens if we take it from 15 watts to 25 watts oh wow we actually kneecapped the gaming performance in that one it's a bit weird but there's a good reason for that basically what would happen is the apu would clock itself higher uh for a little bit giving better gaming performance but then it would very quickly hit that 86 degree celsius thermal limit that i set for it and then the frame rate would kind of tank now we need to get to the meat and bananas of this video we're gonna put some better cooling on this laptop and see what happens what is the maximum unshackled performance of a 3200u okay let's have a look oh it comes off nice and easy we've got thermal paste application over here it's such a tiny little chip look at that this is how i'm gonna go about my first attempt at doing some better cooling on that little apu now this looks a bit janky and i promise you that it is going to be pretty jacky but i'm pretty sure it's going to work now the reason that i have it propped on two ryzen boxes is that i still need access to the power button and i have it open upside down like this because i'm just going to take the air cooler i'm going to put some thermal paste between the two and then just kind of rest it on there now i've established in a previous video that gravity is kind of enough to create reasonable thermal contact with a tower cooler like this so i actually think this is gonna work i'm pretty confident that this isn't gonna be a disaster the only issue is this motherboard doesn't actually have like fan headers so i'm gonna have to use like an external power supply with a fan controller to be able to plug the fan in and then i'm just gonna jump the power supply so that it's running the whole time but i think this is a pretty ingenious solution to my problem but first we have to do the very important neck or test okay now niko-chan which one do you prefer this one or this one oh oh well i mean it seems like he's onsite so i've just spent about 20 minutes looking and i finally found this molex to fan connector thing so i'm just going to kind of wait is that oh i have to admit there really aren't many things in the world i hate more than molex but look at that we got it in it's not pretty but hopefully it works now it's clearly starting to become pretty pretty not safe for work here we've got some some naked laptop contact going on here and i'm really excited to see how this is gonna perform i mean i feel like this is a 100 legitimate way to game right like this is just this is how everybody should game the problem with this setup is if you get over excited that cooler is just going to tumble onto the desk which is not something you want happening mid gaming session no way look at those temperatures i guess that's what happens when you put a hyper 212 black edition on like a 20 watt tdp apu even under full load you're getting 38 degrees celsius so as you can see the core frequency of the cpu is nice and high and the boost frequency of the apu is also very high and it's obviously gonna stay there because well the temperatures are just so low like it's it's it's not got to worry about anything so let's run some benchmarks see what kind of performance gain we get and then we just try and push it until it explodes so now that we've unshackled the beast of thermal limitations let's try and push this tdp rating up here oh not 55 oh no okay i'm just gonna do that okay so we're gonna take it to 35 see what that does and then uh we're also gonna increase the maximum frequency on the gpu so this way it still is in charge of what it does itself um but it can go until it feels it's not safe anymore i'm just gonna be stupid about it now and take it all the way up to like 55 why not let's see what it does because uh checking this monitoring while running a game it does actually use about 35 watts so yeah if we push it higher better right now unfortunately we've hit a little bit of a brick wall here because no matter how much extra power we let the system endow the chip with it can't really do anything with it and unfortunately i can't overclock the igpu more or just the cpu either and we're also running into memory limitations because we don't have any bios features for overclocking on this motherboard i can't allocate more memory to the actual igpu so we're hitting a vram limitation as well at this point so unfortunately this is kind of all she wrote but we did get more than a hundred percent performance uplift from the system which is pretty cool i actually think this went really well and we got a pretty surprising boost in gaming performance from this so with that if you enjoyed the video thank you very much for watching subscribe to the channel like the video for more content like this check out my patreon and all of that stuff linked in the description below and until the next video bye you