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    I want to overclock my gaming laptop, help pls

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Ninjaken, Nov 8, 2013.

  1. Ninjaken

    Ninjaken Notebook Enthusiast

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    So a few days ago my Battalion Ultra-thin MI1771-1 gaming laptop came in, specs are core i7 4th Gen 4700HQ 2.4ghz to 3.4 ghz turbo boost enabled, GTX 765m 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM and 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

    I am not new to overclocking, but I am new to laptop overclocking, I've read around that laptop GPU overclocking can be done safely and it works really well with others, I have MSI Afterburner installed to do the job, anything I should know before I delve into this? Thank you.
     
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    Ninjaken Notebook Enthusiast

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    Someone pls help?
     
    Ninjaken, Nov 10, 2013
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    jynbr Notebook Guru

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    Why would you need to overclock with those specs? MSI afterburner is a good application to start with. In general, overclock in small increments and test for stability (using Prime95, for instance, if you're OCing your CPU).
     
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    Ninjaken Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I run MSI Afterburner, the details on the side glitch out, saying like gpu temp is 0 degrees and gpu usage is 0 degrees then the numbers say like min: 0 max: 42695321 or something like that, what is this?
     
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    Ninjaken Notebook Enthusiast

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    Btw, what is a good running temp for my CPU?
     
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    Use Intel XTU for the CPU and nVidiaInspector for the GPU...

    If your CPU is > 90C then you're running a bit hot, but it should be fine up to 95C. Technically it should be able to run up to 100C but then it may throttle, and running at absolute limits is not a good thing.
     
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    Its a known problem with new Nvidia drivers that MSI Afterburner does not work anymore, i would recommend Nvidia inspector for overclocking, and without custom vbios, you cannot exceed certain core and memory clocks, otherwise just monitor temps are overclock it to see stability.
     
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    x2 good stuff
     
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    How do I use Intel XTU? I always did my OC in the BIOS. I see here I can change the multipliers for each core, do I bump each one just 1 notch?
     
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    Your processor has a base clock for example 200mhz, then the multipliers kick in so for example 10x which would bring the processor to 2.0GHZ.

    So to answer your question you up the multipliers to increase clock. Be sure to test stability between each change.

    I haven't used XTU in a while but i think you can alter base clock on some CPU models too.
     
    ratchetnclank, Nov 11, 2013
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