The Author's Frustrating Experience with Overclocking a 360 Gaming System

Today was supposed to be an epic video about overclocking my 360 gaming system to new heights. I had high hopes of pushing the limits of my components and achieving incredible performance gains. However, as we all know, things didn't quite go as planned.

Instead of sharing my overclocking prowess with the world, I found myself stuck in a rut. My 360 gaming system wasn't living up to its full potential, and I was determined to figure out why. So, I decided to take a different approach and walk you through my journey of self-discovery – or lack thereof.

It all started when I bought an Intel Xeon E5 2640 CPU for my system. I thought it would be a great opportunity to overclock the chip and see what kind of gains I could make. However, things quickly took a turn for the worse. The CPU was locked at its maximum multiplier, severely limiting any potential overclocking.

I tried to adjust the base frequency of the CPU, but my motherboard didn't support this feature. That meant that CPU overclocking was completely out of the question for me. I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised. After all, it's not like I expected to be able to push my system to its limits with ease.

As I delved deeper into my research, I discovered that the graphics card – or rather, the fake-looking HD 6750 I had installed – was also a major bottleneck in my system. I spent hours trying to overclock the GPU using various software and techniques, but nothing seemed to work. It's like the old saying goes: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." In this case, the manufacturer limits imposed on the HD 6750 were just too restrictive.

Now, you might be wondering why I bothered with overclocking at all. The truth is, I was hoping to get a better performance out of my system, but it seems that wasn't meant to be. The CPU and graphics card are both bottlenecked in their own ways, so there's not much room for improvement.

Despite the lack of success, I still have hopes for my system. Maybe one day, I'll stumble upon a way to bypass these limitations and achieve true overclocking greatness. Until then, I'll keep tinkering and experimenting until I find a solution that works.

In the meantime, I thought it would be helpful to share some of my experiences with you, in the hopes that someone out there might be able to offer some guidance or advice. Who knows? Maybe we can learn something from each other's successes and failures.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's video was gonna be really awesome i was gonna take my 360 aliexpress gaming system and overclock it until its eyes exploded for some sick performance gains with very little effort i even filmed an intro to that video with a fancy second camera angle look at this naive idiot thinking that today's video was actually gonna be interesting what a dumbass so what i'm gonna do instead of today's video is walk you through why i'm a failure and couldn't overclock any of these components except for a very little bit and then we'll see what that little bit does for the gaming performance there are several videos on the internet by people who actually know what they're talking about explaining how to overclock old xeon cpus using juan on z motherboards the problem is the exact xeon cpu and one on z motherboard that i have the intel xeon e5 2640 is a locked multiplier cpu which means that it severely limits any overclockability for the chip now the way around this is to adjust the base frequency of the cpu but your motherboard needs to support that and as far as i can tell this x79 juan z motherboard doesn't support that feature unfortunately for me it seems like cpu overclocking is completely out of the question for this video although that may not be a very big problem considering that the cpu is by no means the bottleneck when it comes to the gaming performance for this system which brings me to the disappointment of the graphics card ah yes the fake looking hd 6750 there was actually label there was actually labeled as an hd 6770 so i guess it's still kind of a fake graphics card all my hopes and dreams now rest on your shoulders young graphics card now when it comes to a normal version of the hd 6750 you can get a reasonable overclock out of it because the manufacturer limits imposed on the gpu are still restrictive but they're not that restrictive however considering that this is like a weirdly cobbled together one on z version of the hd6750 our overclocking limits are way lower for some reason there's there's not much overclocking headroom in this graphics card now again there are videos by people who know what they're talking about on the internet explaining how to get around these manufacturer overclocking limits on an hd 6750 the problem is this graphics card is so old that it lies squarely in the realm of a legacy graphics card and all of the software that's meant to bypass these manufacturer overclocking limits are all made for windows xp and they just refuse to work on windows 10. i spent hours trying to get it to work and i i just i just couldn't do it um so yeah unfortunately the only overclocking headroom we have in this graphics card is the little bit that juan on z allows us to do again as far as i can tell so with that let's see how much actual extra performance we can get with our very very limited overclocking potential for this entire system now before we get into our extreme overclocking for today we need to get a baseline reading to see how much of a massive performance jump we get with our insane overclock so our baseline for this test is 61.5 as an average frame rate and a one percent low of 32.3 frames per second again not too bad for a legacy graphics card that most likely hasn't felt the touch of a woman in years so now let's see how far we can push at celibacy okay i'm sure that must have made a huge difference let's just bring up the benchmarks here and then um wow you can really feel that point one of a frame per second dotoday's video was gonna be really awesome i was gonna take my 360 aliexpress gaming system and overclock it until its eyes exploded for some sick performance gains with very little effort i even filmed an intro to that video with a fancy second camera angle look at this naive idiot thinking that today's video was actually gonna be interesting what a dumbass so what i'm gonna do instead of today's video is walk you through why i'm a failure and couldn't overclock any of these components except for a very little bit and then we'll see what that little bit does for the gaming performance there are several videos on the internet by people who actually know what they're talking about explaining how to overclock old xeon cpus using juan on z motherboards the problem is the exact xeon cpu and one on z motherboard that i have the intel xeon e5 2640 is a locked multiplier cpu which means that it severely limits any overclockability for the chip now the way around this is to adjust the base frequency of the cpu but your motherboard needs to support that and as far as i can tell this x79 juan z motherboard doesn't support that feature unfortunately for me it seems like cpu overclocking is completely out of the question for this video although that may not be a very big problem considering that the cpu is by no means the bottleneck when it comes to the gaming performance for this system which brings me to the disappointment of the graphics card ah yes the fake looking hd 6750 there was actually label there was actually labeled as an hd 6770 so i guess it's still kind of a fake graphics card all my hopes and dreams now rest on your shoulders young graphics card now when it comes to a normal version of the hd 6750 you can get a reasonable overclock out of it because the manufacturer limits imposed on the gpu are still restrictive but they're not that restrictive however considering that this is like a weirdly cobbled together one on z version of the hd6750 our overclocking limits are way lower for some reason there's there's not much overclocking headroom in this graphics card now again there are videos by people who know what they're talking about on the internet explaining how to get around these manufacturer overclocking limits on an hd 6750 the problem is this graphics card is so old that it lies squarely in the realm of a legacy graphics card and all of the software that's meant to bypass these manufacturer overclocking limits are all made for windows xp and they just refuse to work on windows 10. i spent hours trying to get it to work and i i just i just couldn't do it um so yeah unfortunately the only overclocking headroom we have in this graphics card is the little bit that juan on z allows us to do again as far as i can tell so with that let's see how much actual extra performance we can get with our very very limited overclocking potential for this entire system now before we get into our extreme overclocking for today we need to get a baseline reading to see how much of a massive performance jump we get with our insane overclock so our baseline for this test is 61.5 as an average frame rate and a one percent low of 32.3 frames per second again not too bad for a legacy graphics card that most likely hasn't felt the touch of a woman in years so now let's see how far we can push at celibacy okay i'm sure that must have made a huge difference let's just bring up the benchmarks here and then um wow you can really feel that point one of a frame per second do