u/Plus-Requirement-771

N64 isn't working. We've swapped cables and paks between a different working n64 and nothing is working at all. The n64 will power on, but nothing will come up on the screen, not even a flicker, just no signal whatsoever. Tore it apart in these photos to see if there's anything out of the ordinary, or if this is a common fixable occurrence. Normally I'm super handy when it comes to tech, but even I'm stumped. We asked a repair shop what it would take to repair it and they quoted us at \~$120, so repair from them is a no-go. I also cleaned out the cartridge slot to make sure that isn't the issue, and still nothing.

Still new to overclocking and learning everything, huge thanks to u/carlosChanpio70 for helping me out and teaching me some things. Next up will be a CPU overclock, but I need to get a new cable since my dumbass spilt coffee all over my second P8 CPU Cable. Currently, my CPU definitely looks like the reason I'm not hitting a higher framerate, though its usage isn't actually as high as the overlay's saying.

Did an undervolt + overclock this time, and uncapped MSI Afterburner's memory overclock limit. My GPU has an arbitrary VRAM overclock limit in the VBIOS, which I couldn't be asked to figure out, so I just set the overclock to 10Ghz to max it out. From looking at HWinfo before removing the cap, the limit is at least 3Ghz, and I haven't hit any VRAM stability issues from all my testing between OCCT, other tools, and a bunch of my games.

In a couple of my games (namely Cyberpunk), a 500mhz overclock was actually perfectly stable with no issues after undervolting, though in most other games it wasn't, so I had to dial it down to about 450mhz just to keep the stability across the board. Certain games and areas in games also benefited more from the overclock than others.

Core clock: Undervolted at 0.985mv, +450mhz. Memory clock: Dunno, whatever the max is. At least 3Ghz.

Specs: RTX 5080, Ryzen 7 9800x3D (Yes I'm boring), 64gb DDR5.

Underclocked frames look a little higher than my previous post, mostly because I actually restarted my PC first instead of letting it run for 3 weeks straight lmfao.

I also, for the first time ever, am able to run 1440P native max settings in a couple of my games with this overclock without dipping below 60 FPS. Hell yeah. I'll make another post when I'm able to overclock my CPU.

If y'all have any more feedback on how I can push this even further to get better performance (that doesn't involve flashing my VBIOS, I'm not taking that risk), then lemme know!

I've been somewhat of a PC enthusiast for a while and never actually tried out overclocking because I never saw the appeal to it. Just tried out overclocking and yknow what it's actually not half bad.

Managed to get anywhere from 15 - 20 extra frames on average areas, and anywhere from 8 to 10 extra frames in more intense areas in Cyberpunk 2077 at maxxed out settings.

Specs: RTX 5080, Ryzen 7 9800x3d (yes I know I'm boring shut up), 64gb of DDR5 cas30 6000mhz.

Overclock: +3000mhz Memory (that was as far as Afterburner would let me go), +425mhz Core Clock (Could probably hit to 450mhz and still be stable, but it's a good safe spot).

Not really super into overclocking, just trying it out for the first time so I don't know if that's actually good or not lmao.

I was able to hold 500mhz for a minute on my core clock before the game crashed, so I just pulled it back until it was stable and tested to make sure it was stable for about half an hour before I closed it out.

If anyone has any tips on how to push this further that'd be greatly appreciated!

P.S. Sorry about the images being stupidly compressed idk why it's like that.

Incase it's hard to read, the first image (overclocked) has an average FPS of 62, 53 lows, and 72 highs. Second one (Not overclocked) has an average of 54 FPS, 49 lows and 64 highs. Third is just a screenshot of afterburner with my settings lmao.