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    OC'ing a i7 3610qm

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by esca, Jul 9, 2012.

  1. esca

    esca Notebook Guru

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    Im sitting here at work wondering if u can OC a 3610 the old fashioned way since the multiplier is not unlocked. I've dine the old way on my Aurora desktop with a I5 750 and figured it be fun to do it on my laptop to go with my gfx OC.
     
    esca, Jul 9, 2012
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  2. Seanzky

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    I don't think it's possible to OC a 3610QM.
     
    Seanzky, Jul 9, 2012
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    You can a little bit by upping the BCLK with Intel XTU. Not really worth it, at least I've found no benefits to it while gaming.
     
    Arestavo, Jul 9, 2012
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  4. esca

    esca Notebook Guru

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    Cool cool. Thx for the heads up arestavo. I won't bother then.
     
    esca, Jul 9, 2012
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    Is it possible to oc the 3720 qm in a clevo notebook?

    I know intel made it possible to oc about 400mhz more then the stock so...
     
    fantabulicius, Jul 9, 2012
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    Isn't that only for the partially unlocked non-K LGA2011 CPUs?
     
    Yuxi, Jul 9, 2012
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  7. SlickDude80

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    if you have an alienware, the 3720 can be overclocked in the bios to 40/39/38/38 (i.e., 4ghz single core, 3.9ghz dual, and 3.8 ghz with 3-4 cores in use)

    You can also use intel XTU to do this on the 17" sager/clevo models, but not on the 15" models
     
    SlickDude80, Jul 9, 2012
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    Can u use xtu on the m17x r4 with the 3610?
     
    HaloGod2012, Jul 9, 2012
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  9. SlickDude80

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    you can, but you'll only be able to raise your BCLK a few percentage points. You can't change multipliers on the 3610
     
    SlickDude80, Jul 10, 2012
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  10. inyue

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    How the turbo boost thing work with ThrottleStop?

    Can I manage to get full turbo boost on 4 cores with ThrottleStop all the time?
     
    inyue, Jul 10, 2012
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  11. Mobius 1

    Mobius 1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Hmm, what's the difference between the 15" and 17" clevo? HM76 vs HM77?
     
    Mobius 1, Jul 10, 2012
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  12. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    no clevo removed one of the chips that's necessary for xtu because they were having problems. same chipset.
     
    aduy, Jul 10, 2012
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    Why can u only move the bclk a few percent? I OC'd my desktop I5 750 by doing that exact thing and gained a full 1ghz to 3.6. I guess I don't understand why I couldn't do the same on the i7 3610qm. Is the BIOS locked in such a way or something else? I know its not as ez or convenient as an unlocked multiplier but shouldn't it work none the less?
     
    esca, Jul 10, 2012
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    Bios is totally locked... about the only thing you can do is take a look at your harddrives and choose one to boot from
     
    fenryr423, Jul 10, 2012
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    esca Notebook Guru

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    Ah. Well that makes sense then. I had never looked. Any flashed BIOS out here or I spose that's not in high demand with all the other processers with unlocked multies.
     
    esca, Jul 10, 2012
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    Throttlestop isn't enough...you need to raise your longterm tdp if you want to run full boost on 4 cores

    If you have enabled overclocking, you can download XTU and raise your max turbo tdp to something like 57w. Your system will use about 52w, but you have to set to 57w because of vDroop...this will allow your computer to run max turbo forever

    you can only raise a few percentage points because of the architecture this gen. Most people can get up to 5%...but nothing more. The sandy architecture does not like more than 5% or you bsod...the mobile Ivy's on the H77 chipset might be even worse as i've seen many reports of even 1mhz more on the bclk will cause bsod.

    The best thing to do is get a 3720qm and clock up to 4ghz (enabled on all alienware and 17" sager/clevo's)

    yes that's about it if you have a 3610
     
    SlickDude80, Jul 10, 2012
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  17. esca

    esca Notebook Guru

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    Will that max turbo forever thing work for the 3610 or r u guys talking about the 3720? I'm more curious than anything. I don't think is try it for fear of burning a piece of hardware up and explaining to my wife why I have to spend another $300. Lol
     
    esca, Jul 10, 2012
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    you know what, if you are just gaming, its not really worth it. The bottleneck is still your vid card, you will gain so much from an OC on your vid card and practically nothing from messing with your CPU.

    the 3610qm is not a bottleneck on your 7970m so there is no need to spend another $300 unless you need the highest 3dmark score lol
     
    SlickDude80, Jul 10, 2012
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  19. satchmo67

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    Totally agreed, the 3720 has a great price point, too.
     
    satchmo67, Jul 14, 2012
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    no point ocing a 3610qm, its got more then enough performance for 99% of users. Only people who want VT and show off benchmark scores and have money no object or want as fast as possible would get anything higher. A stock i7 3610qm probably would beat your i5 750 oc'd to 4ghz easily. Also your 3610qm is 22nm so power consumption is low. No point ocing a cpu already with a turbo and fast enough already.
     
    nissangtr786, Jul 14, 2012
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    Even my 2630qm with turbo disabled does not cause a bottleneck, so the people who say there's no point are generally right in all but a few games.
     
    Syberia, Jul 14, 2012
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    I have run into games where extra CPU, rather than GPU, power is better. Also, if you doing any recording (think FRAPs or Dxtory), you can usually use all the CPU power you can get.
     
    ScardyBob, Sep 30, 2012
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  24. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    I got a 3tb external HDD 7200rpm drive over USB 3.0 and on a good day i get 140mb/s write but average speed is usually 120mb/s.
    More than enough to record my gameplay in 1080p as you can see on my videos over at http://www.youtube.com/user/sgtdeagleson1337/ .

    If the HDD write speed is slow you can choose to compress it and then it helps to have a nice multicore CPU.
    Using for example PlayClaw can record using 4 cores and performance hit is much lower than that of FRAPS.

    Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
     
    DEagleson, Oct 1, 2012
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