Overclocking - Please share your best settings, tips and tricks!

[madisonswitch]

What are your best tips and tricks for overclocking?

Best apps to use?

Best settings?

Any hardware mods for cooling overclocked Switches?

• External fan?
• Aluminum chassis?
• Extra thermal paste mods?

What temps are you getting?

 

[Blythe93]

Aluminum chassis?

I remember seeing this video from Macho Nacho Productions, where they've stated that aluminum back plate didn't necessarily offer a better cooling. So unless you're buying it for better looks, I'd skip upgrading to aluminum chassis / back plate.

 

[ChanseyIsTheBest]

The issue with switch is primarily too much current and power draw not temperature (however temperature still is a factor). Especially Mariko as it don't get hot in the slightest usually. Lite especially, especially because it has a 12W board power limit.

You shouldn't need any external mods for overclocking fans or otherwise however thermal paste can be useful especially if you live in a hot environment.

I would recommend using Switch OC Suite for overclocking/undervolting If you have a Mariko it allows higher clocks as well. The most important thing to overclock on Switch as RAM as you can get a large performance improvement even if you don't touch anything else. Most people can reach 1996mhz on v1 and 2400mhz on Mariko with tightened ram timings.

I've linked a guide I wrote below that goes into more depth:
https://rentry.co/SwitchOCSuiteGuide1

 

[madisonswitch]

I remember seeing this video from Macho Nacho Productions, where they've stated that aluminum back plate didn't necessarily offer a better cooling. So unless you're buying it for better looks, I'd skip upgrading to aluminum chassis / back plate.

I've seen that video and I think there are some holes in the way he did his setup. He also didn't do accurate temp measurements properly, as many viewers pointed out in the comments.

This guy in this video did a much better job and I think his results could be replicated:

 

[alfonsovin]

In which cases so you need over clock switch? Certain games? FPS performance?

Thank you

 

[masagrator]

In which cases so you need over clock switch?

- When game has shitty optimization in portable to make it playable (f.e. Trails into Reverie)
- If you want for game to run at higher FPS
- If you want to use graphics packs

 

[CyrusTheVirus]

In which cases so you need over clock switch? Certain games? FPS performance?

Thank you

Reply was WRONG, in actual fact, the reasons (which I have used OC for myself) are as follows:

1) Faster Loading times = OC'ing RAM Definitely improves Loading times!

2) Better Performance/FPS = OC'ing CPU &/or GPU can & does definitely help with performance/FPS!

3) UNDER-CLOCKING to Save Battery = Games with simple Graphics (like 2D etc) dont need standard clock speeds & can be seriously Under-Clocked which Definitely Saves Battery Life!

NOTE: in Hand-held mode I generally Only Overclock RAM, as u get faster loading times & Not much extra Battery Drain.
Overclocking will use more power/Battery AND will increase Temperature! Altho, I used that "sys-clk-manager", which also shows real-time system temps & I Never saw ANY high temps regardless of how high I set ALL Clock speeds.

 

[venath]

iam a noob so i just use NX-Venom kit to overclok. this kit has simple installation, just copy and paste(more on their git-hub page) i cant post the link so just google nx-venom. it offer a great variety of tool, but i just use sys-clk-oc to oc global profile my switch lite to:
ram 2133
gpu 768
cpu 1963.
that says again, im a noob, so im sure there a better guide here. Good luck

 

[Taffer]

I will read that guide, underclocking to save battery life and undervolting for better temps seems like a good idea.

That said - what if I want to go to extreme and OC in Linux with maximum overclock that requires official charger/dock? What powerbank can I use? I cannot find Nintendo Switch one in my country.