4930/4940MX viability in A18? (bios A12)

How easy is it to tune the MX CPUs in the A18? Is it easy to reach 4ghz, or 4.4+ghz? Will cooling hold out if not using CLU/liquid metal paste?




Seeing that the single thread performance isn't far behind from a 6700K, I think I'm going to keep the A18 instead of switching to a P870DM when pascal hits.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4930MX+@+3.00GHz&id=1985

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6700K+@+4.00GHz&id=2565

 

Probably has to be Grizzly Kryonaut or CLU. It will cut temps by about 20c over stock paste. One would think that would transfer over to the GPUs but CLU will only improve GPU temps by maybe 2c.

 

I have Kryonaut, it's non conductive

Conductonaut is the liquid metal one


Btw, how did you get your 4700MQ to 3.6ghz all cores?

 

You NEED CLU or Conductonaut on there. Haswell is stupid hot.

 

can't use anything else?

 

Not really. you'll be bouncing off the thermal limiter real quick

 

damn :|

so it's either go big or go home ah

 

I have a 4930 and run it at 4 ghz constantly. I only use the bios for its settings and the only software I use is HWinfo64 to control the fan speeds.
Yes my voltages are higher then if I tuned it with throttle stop ect but I'm not that good at messing with all the settings and was always having it crash.
By just using the bios settings for the overclock and setting up hwinfo64 to blast the fans I haven't had a crash in over a year and am able to game and run benchmarks with no issues at all. The cpu could def go further but I'm very happy with my results at 4 ghz. Hope that helps . If you want my bios settings let me know . It would only take you a few seconds to use my settings and give it a shot.

 

I thought that it was not advised to run the dell oc profile?

 

Are you using an i7-4700MQ? If so you could try OC'ing that first maybe.

CPUbenchmark 10503

 

I use Artic Silver 5 on all my CPU. no issue , none whatsoever.

 

I got 3.4 on all cores, but not able to go beyond.

I have also slightly undervolted the cpu by -50mv

 

Base clock overclock to 103Mhz = 100Mhz more

 

Which option in tstop do I go to change that

 

Which microcode version is shown in BIOS and which in Windows?

 

Well that would make sense if you are planning on using the processor at stock speeds. But if you are planning on overclocking at all, then the 6700k will be a much better choice. Almost every 6700k can do 4.5Ghz using Kryonaut and some under volting. Plus you have the option of pushing it further after de lidding it and applying CLU to the die and/or the IHS.
Another concern a friend of mine with the AW18 had was, if there will be BIOS support to make the pascal based cards work. We know it wont be long before custom vBIOS' come out , but the system BIOS will be an important factor.

 

Sell AW18 and get P870DM instead?

I have a friend that's willing to buy it for 2k, but he's still saving up.

 

I doubt hes gonna part with it, worse case he will give it to his younger brother and make him work for it

But by the time Pascal for mobile hits, there will be a P870DM successor out. (rather hope so lol)

 

No no, I mean I will sell my A18 to my friend for 2K usd. Then use that money to buy a P870DM successor.

 

Ahh! Makes sense. My bad.
That would be a great price for an 18" Laptop, specially considering you dont get those AW's anymore. Specially the ones that work properly. Best of luck to you!

 

Gonna be real hard to part with the A18 though

Performance over function I guess

 

im not using theirs, i changed the settings myself in the bios

 

BIOS not TS