Intel 2960XM and AMD 6990M overclocking question

Hi All,

I'm currently playing Far Cry 4 on the laptop in my sig. I'm only getting avg 25-30 FPS on High settings with textures and environment at Very High and was thinking of overclocking due to the lack of Crossfire support. My question is there any point overclocking the CPU (2960XM) or will I just OC the 6990M? Both are running at stock speeds at the moment.

Thank for any help.

 

for gaming, OC'ing the graphics card provides a lot more boost to FPS than overclocking the CPU. If framerates in games is your only concern for overclocking, I would avoid the hassle of OC'ing the CPU and do just the GPU, there will be a negligible improvement from an OC'ed CPU compared to that of a GPU.

 

Doesn't Far Cry 3 have a CrossFire profile? You could try forcing Far Cry 4 to use that instead until its own profile is re-enabled.

 

You should also look into OCing your CPU while you're at it too. Besides being a waste of money, having an underclocked extreme CPU is like have a supercar stuck in first gear.

 

Any time I see someone with an enthusiast desktop CPU and leaves it stock (especially if they're a streamer) I have this innate desire to take their system because I'd use it better XD. At least I don't OC my CPU 24/7 right now because I need to get some CLU for it as some workloads cause some thermal throttling (mainly Handbrake rendering). But someone with an Alienware lappy best keep that thing minimum 4.2GHz haha

 

Thanks for the replies.... I'll get overclocking so.


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Overclock the CPU with Intel XTU... You should be able to do 4GHz easily with a 2960XM... As for GPU, OCing AMD cards has worked for me using Saphire Trix and I would recommend using that... NVIDIA Precision X works too however Saphire trix is probably better designed to deal with this.. don't OC your 6990M's too much,... They have a tedency to die.. also are your running the 14.12 drivers? That should help quite a bit with improving the performance...

 

I've downloaded 14.12, just need to get rid of Microsoft's KB3004394 and then try them out. From the looks of things I should be ok with a modest OC of GPU and CPU and the omega driver. Thanks again for the help.


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Intel XTU gave me BSOD when I tried to run it. Can the XM chip be OC'ed from the BIOS like on my old XPS m1730?


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Yes of course you can OC in BIOS but XTU is faster and kind of safer IMO as voltages in BIOS for AW are usually too high and not needed ...I'm surprised you got a BSOD with XTU... I would remove it, run CC Cleaner and clean out your registry and any remains of it and try installing it again... Also use the latest version!

 

Thanks, will try that this evening. I'm using the latest version from Intel's site. Will run CC Cleaner later.

 

Your BSOD is from not enough voltage when you increased the multipliers.

 

Yeah why didn't I think of that? That is exactly what used to happen to me with my OC!