MSI GX70 CPU Overclocking - Possible?

[Maxmanus]

Hey guys i did it and it worked but when turbo core activated. when i selected sleep and opened my gx70 turbo core disactivated (amd overdrive colour is grey) so i restarted bar edit again and i changed bits but at this time it doesN't work.2 cores 2.5 ghz 2 cores 0.8 ghz.So what should i do?should i change 0DC 10 and 9 bits to default values?Help.Thanks.

[sdrstone1]

NO, yet;

you can just unlock the bios

and turn off c6 state and pss state to keep CPU to 3.2Ghz Quad core.

[methandmind]

Hey, it's a while what I have my gx70 with A10-5750M, at first I thought that I have wrong drivers for GPU, then bios, now I relized that the problem what I was experiencing is coming from CPU.

[methandmind]

Does this overlock looks like this?

[ssateneth]

Inb4 cries of thread necro.

 

Wanted to add, this tweak is not exclusive to MSI laptops. I plopped in an A10-5750M into an HP Pavilion G6 laptop (Had an A6-4400M prior). Clock speeds all over the place. Used AMDMSRTweaker to lower voltages across the board to try to encourage stronger p states to little effect. Came across this thread, watched the videos. Thankfully, the bus/device/function/addresses all matched, and changing the bits with bar-edit allowed higher frequencies across the board.

 

I can't consistently test P0 state (3500MHz), set its voltage to 1.15v anyways. The lower P1 state (3200MHz) I've set to 1.075v. All seems well. Can't get into BIOS to adjust other settings, but what can you do with an HP.

[FaisalNyan]

Hey guys, I know it's an old thread but it's the only one discussing it that I could find all over Google, so I thought I'd try to reignight it. Testing this on my AMD A8-5545M HP Beats Special edition 15-p030nr, it works perfectly. 0xA8 Offset was exactly the same(clear bits 30 and 31) but the 0xDC offset I had to clear bits 10 and 8 instead and leave 9 on 1 because I have 3 turbo states instead of 2(P0, P1 and P2). Doing this allows me to have states P0 to P2 enabled and gives me full turbo, interestingly, if I left bit 8 on 1, P3 would also be enabled. Anyway, This allows me to play my favourite game(Ironsight) at kind of 25fps smoothly and when there's no action at 30fps+, I'm honestly happy because now the game doesn't stutter anymore and really works for me competitively. Sadly in my case, my CPU locks at 2.0GHz when at full load which is when my game is running, this is the P2 state, I wonder if it's possible to switch the heavy load state to P1 instead because the game usually runs well at 2.4GHz. I hope the master of this thread will come back and help me with this. 

[FaisalNyan]

On 6/13/2020 at 2:00 AM, FaisalNyan said:

Hey guys, I know it's an old thread but it's the only one discussing it that I could find all over Google, so I thought I'd try to reignight it. Testing this on my AMD A8-5545M HP Beats Special edition 15-p030nr, it works perfectly. 0xA8 Offset was exactly the same(clear bits 30 and 31) but the 0xDC offset I had to clear bits 10 and 8 instead and leave 9 on 1 because I have 3 turbo states instead of 2(P0, P1 and P2). Doing this allows me to have states P0 to P2 enabled and gives me full turbo, interestingly, if I left bit 8 on 1, P3 would also be enabled. Anyway, This allows me to play my favourite game(Ironsight) at kind of 25fps smoothly and when there's no action at 30fps+, I'm honestly happy because now the game doesn't stutter anymore and really works for me competitively. Sadly in my case, my CPU locks at 2.0GHz when at full load which is when my game is running, this is the P2 state, I wonder if it's possible to switch the heavy load state to P1 instead because the game usually runs well at 2.4GHz. I hope the master of this thread will come back and help me with this. 

So, an update on this. I went into AMD Overdrive and changed the iGPU clock speed, I lowered it a bit to roughly 400MHz instead of the usual 500+MHz and this increased CPU and gaming performance even more. Still haven't figured out how to change the C6 state, that P2 state is pretty taxing haha, I really wished it was P1, especially now that my PC runs so cool(61celcius on average)  under full load than usual(69c)

[kovacs1122]

 

On 6/14/2020 at 12:36 PM, FaisalNyan said:

So, an update on this. I went into AMD Overdrive and changed the iGPU clock speed, I lowered it a bit to roughly 400MHz instead of the usual 500+MHz and this increased CPU and gaming performance even more. Still haven't figured out how to change the C6 state, that P2 state is pretty taxing haha, I really wished it was P1, especially now that my PC runs so cool(61celcius on average)  under full load than usual(69c)

I have another issue o a very similar PC  (HP p020nx) with an a10-5745m, the pc crashes when it requires less power afaik, and i have set to confi where 8 and 10 are null, any solution ?

[kovacs1122]

Looks like locking on is impossible on this laptop config A10-5745M + R7 M260, and it has only two P-States, when locking in at max turbo, the iGPU has no power left and the display will stop output and eventually crash, this cpu is a beast at max turbo but the dgpu in linked and cannot be directed as display output, I have tried many times with some Japanese tool to reduce max turbo frequency for allowing some space for iGPU, also underclocking, and trying to lock it on Catalyst Manager. Any solution would be really appreciated.

Edit; The APU has three p-states.

Edited August 29, 2020 by kovacs1122

[kovacs1122]

Update: looks like this method is not working on Windows 8.1 or higher, the igpu is not causing the issue, as when the cpu wants to underclock or thermal throttle, it cannot and it crashes.

Another useless update: New BIOS updates for spectre, meltdown caused this issue, unfortunately HP does not allow to downgrade my BIOS.

Edited September 4, 2020 by kovacs1122