Overclocking my Laptop

Mez

Mez

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Now, I know that overclocking laptops isn't recommended, but I can't live with running at 1.4Ghz.

I've tried 2.4Ghz with 1.125v, but laptop overheats to 101* celcius during prime95 and shuts down.

Also tried 2.2Ghz with 1.125v, same thing.

Now im at 2.0Ghz with 1.125v stable and running max load at 92* Celcius.

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My question is, can I try lowering the voltage to perhaps .925v to prevent excessive heat, and go for the 2.4Ghz Overclock? Or is it not that simple?
 
Good cheese, trying a full 1 ghz oc on a lappy? Thats not gonna happen easy, I dont think it can happen. I think you are lucky with a 600 mhz oc. Now, you can try lowering the voltages and 2.4 ghz, but I dont think it will work.
 
byteninja2 said:
Good cheese, trying a full 1 ghz oc on a lappy? Thats not gonna happen easy, I dont think it can happen. I think you are lucky with a 600 mhz oc. Now, you can try lowering the voltages and 2.4 ghz, but I dont think it will work.
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I'm going to go for the 1ghz overclock on lower voltages, I havent had any crashes or bsods, just heat issues. Maybe I can get the temps to stay in the 90-98 degree range.
 
amd chips aren't good with heat, i know my 960t isn't supposed to go too far over 60 before i'm doing damage. Although my 470 can safely boil water, the site lists its max temp as 105C :eek:

But after a quick google, 100C is its max so you're "safe." The thing is that prime doesn't give you the best top temp example, intel burn test is the best bench for temp and will add probably 10C to the temp, thing is a cpu murderer.

I'd go ahead and see if the bios will let you down the voltage to 1.110 and try it at 2ghz, then if it is stable try it at 1.09 or so, just keep trying to lower the voltage 'till it bsod's, then up the voltage 2 incraments and go to 2.1 or 2.2 ghz and try it, provided the temps are still in check.
 
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Yeah, I was doing research on laptop apus, and they're designed to take a punishment since laptops don't provide adequate cooling.

But I'll try your method, except I don't use the bios to overclock since the oem locked the bios, but I use the thing in the middle called K10stat to overclock, it's pretty much the same thing.
 
Alien! Where? said:
Yeah, I was doing research on laptop apus, and they're designed to take a punishment since laptops don't provide adequate cooling.

But I'll try your method, except I don't use the bios to overclock since the oem locked the bios, but I use the thing in the middle called K10stat to overclock, it's pretty much the same thing.
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i figured you were probably using something like that, good luck.
 
Brought the voltage down to 1.000v @ 2Ghz, dropped 10*C to 82*C. Pretty satisfied.
 
Alien! Where? said:
Brought the voltage down to 1.000v @ 2Ghz, dropped 10*C to 82*C. Pretty satisfied.
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you gonna try for a higher clock now?

I'd say to be safe and always have some sort of temp monitor open though, if you go outside or into a warmer area/room, the temps will be higher so you need to be really mindful of those things when using it.
 
jonnyp11 said:
you gonna try for a higher clock now?

I'd say to be safe and always have some sort of temp monitor open though, if you go outside or into a warmer area/room, the temps will be higher so you need to be really mindful of those things when using it.
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Im going to push for higher tommorrow mid day when it's hot. It's a pretty cool night tonight, so no point if the weather is going to affect my temperature.

Plus, it's always hot in this damn house.

But let me say this... Pushing from 1.4 to 2.0Ghz on ALL cores GREATLY improves my performance in games. It's absurd.
 
well it's over a 40% increase so i'd guess so, i know going to 3.5ghz on this seemed a good bit smoother and that's only a 17% increase
 
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