Overclocking a laptop

[ajk23az]

Anyone ever done this?

Looking for a good guide to do so and don't want to just snag one off of youtbue for obvious reasons.

I have my phone overclocked and it's wonderful.

[Jenky]

Anyone ever done this?

Looking for a good guide to do so and don't want to just snag one off of youtbue for obvious reasons.

I have my phone overclocked and it's wonderful.

High chance of the cpu being locked and they won't be able to dissipate heat anyways.
I doubt the BIOS even gives you the option. Not to mention it will kill battery life.

[Sam I Am]

I would be cautious about OCing a laptop. Many of them run hot to start with.

If you do make sure you install some type of temperature monitor on it and then run something that will abuse the CPU and keep an eye on it's temp. I wouldn't allow it to go over say 70C.

[REDVOLUTION]

Alot of laptops typically run hot to begin with.

You will just be increasing the heat and then its possible to toast your laptop.



Now, in some case the same exact laptop parts are in many different priced models.

ie. cheah, middle of the road and high end laptop.

In those case the only difference is the clocking so you could get away with it.

Do some research first to see if the only real difference is clocked down for lesser model #

[Dallas]

Desktop???

:laugh2:


I don't do Desktop....:mad:









:laugh2:

[Sam I Am]

Laptops?


I don't do laptop.



Some people need muscle cars, I need muscle computers. Laptops (yeah, even gaming ones) are like scooters. :laugh2:


Regular Laptop:
http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/hys2.jpg

Gaming Laptop (say a high end AlienWare or something similar)
http://motorcycleinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/aprilia-scooter.jpg

My PC
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iTGXYFIkfkA/TPJYYO0QCWI/AAAAAAAAdq4/fUs-EMr2AUE/s1600/Fastest_Bike_005.jpg

[tupperware]

Don't do it. Maybe if you've bought some kind of performance laptop, then it's alright. There is a good chance though, that if it's not a performance style laptop, you won't be able to overclock it anyway.

My opinion is to not do it, rarely are laptops adequately ventilated for it and they get built up with dust very fast.

[tupperware]

Laptops?


I don't do laptop.



Some people need muscle cars, I need muscle computers. Laptops (yeah, even gaming ones) are like scooters. :laugh2:


Regular Laptop:


Gaming Laptop (say a high end AlienWare or something similar)


My PC

What are your specs, homie?

[Sam I Am]

What are your specs, homie?

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103913) (currently clocked at 3.31Ghz, but overclockable to 4.0Ghz) with 8GB DDR3 @ 1600

Asus Crosshair IV Formula MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131644). The video card is the oldest part (well, except for my HDs) It's a Gigabyte GTX 460 with 1GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125333) of vram.

The hard drivers are (1) 2TB SATAII drive and (2) 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV drives in RAID0 (for speed)

Next upgrade will be to SSD.

[Jenky]

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103913) (currently clocked at 3.31Ghz, but overclockable to 4.0Ghz) with 8GB DDR3 @ 1600

Asus Crosshair IV Formula MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131644). The video card is the oldest part (well, except for my HDs) It's a Gigabyte GTX 460 with 1GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125333) of vram.

The hard drivers are (1) 2TB SATAII drive and (2) 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV drives in RAID0 (for speed)

Next upgrade will be to SSD.

Tupper wins!

[tupperware]

Tupper wins!
That's a pretty solid system though. I built mine the beginning of this year.

MSI P67A-GD55
G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB 2x4gb
EVGA GTX 580
OCZ Vertex 2 80GB SSD
i5 2500K I OC'd it to 4ghz but it could go much higher. Only using a Hyper 212 though so I'm satisfied with the OC I have.
Corsair HX 850

I kind of wished that I would have went with SLI 560 TIs as they outperform one GTX 580 and possibly saved the few extra bucks and went with the i7 2600k but oh well. The i5 2500k does well enough for gaming.

[tupperware]

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103913) (currently clocked at 3.31Ghz, but overclockable to 4.0Ghz) with 8GB DDR3 @ 1600

Asus Crosshair IV Formula MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131644). The video card is the oldest part (well, except for my HDs) It's a Gigabyte GTX 460 with 1GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125333) of vram.

The hard drivers are (1) 2TB SATAII drive and (2) 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV drives in RAID0 (for speed)

Next upgrade will be to SSD.
SSD is where it's at. I didn't run any of my previous hard drives in a RAID setup. Though I could have gotten quite a bit of performance if I had added another Raptor to my previous one. I just decided to use it for storage and boot + install a few games on the SSD.

[Jenky]

That's a pretty solid system though. I built mine the beginning of this year.

MSI P67A-GD55
G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB 2x4gb
EVGA GTX 580
OCZ Vertex 2 80GB SSD
i5 2500K I OC'd it to 4ghz but it could go much higher. Only using a Hyper 212 though so I'm satisfied with the OC I have.
Corsair HX 850

I kind of wished that I would have went with SLI 560 TIs as they outperform one GTX 580 and possibly saved the few extra bucks and went with the i7 2600k but oh well. The i5 2500k does well enough for gaming.

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Mini-HDMI-Graphics-02G-P3-1568-KR/dp/B005760836

2GB VRAM TIs

[Sam I Am]

That's a pretty solid system though. I built mine the beginning of this year.

MSI P67A-GD55
G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB 2x4gb
EVGA GTX 580
OCZ Vertex 2 80GB SSD
i5 2500K I OC'd it to 4ghz but it could go much higher. Only using a Hyper 212 though so I'm satisfied with the OC I have.
Corsair HX 850

I kind of wished that I would have went with SLI 560 TIs as they outperform one GTX 580 and possibly saved the few extra bucks and went with the i7 2600k but oh well. The i5 2500k does well enough for gaming.

Very nice. Do you play BF3?

With my GTX460, I get about 48FPS at 1680x1050. I believe I'm on high detail, but not ultra high. If you play what do you get?

btw, I went AMD because a freaking hate the way Intel heatsink attach this days. My last PC (E6600) had issues with the stupid plastic brackets coming off and the heatsink and fan hanging off the CPU causing it to overheat and lock up.

AMD still attaches using a clamp to the socket.

[tupperware]

Very nice. Do you play BF3?

With my GTX460, I get about 48FPS at 1680x1050. I believe I'm on high detail, but not ultra high. If you play what do you get?

btw, I went AMD because a freaking hate the way Intel heatsink attach this days. My last PC (E6600) had issues with the stupid plastic brackets coming off and the heatsink and fan hanging off the CPU causing it to overheat and lock up.

AMD still attaches using a clamp to the socket.
I hate it too, but it's hard to go away from pure performance. I run at 1920x1200 and get about 45-55 FPS on Ultra.

I played BF3 beta but haven't bought it. Not sure if I want to or not, I'm mainly waiting on Heart of the Swarm.

I ran Quake 1 the other day for lulz to see how much FPS I'd get. (Bottom right white number is FPS)

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/8758/ezquakegl20111028214450.jpg

[Sam I Am]

2522.9fps? Ugh, you need to upgrade. :laugh2:

If you end up getting BF3, look me up. :)

[trickblue]

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103913) (currently clocked at 3.31Ghz, but overclockable to 4.0Ghz) with 8GB DDR3 @ 1600

Asus Crosshair IV Formula MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131644). The video card is the oldest part (well, except for my HDs) It's a Gigabyte GTX 460 with 1GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125333) of vram.

The hard drivers are (1) 2TB SATAII drive and (2) 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV drives in RAID0 (for speed)

Next upgrade will be to SSD.

That's a pretty solid system though. I built mine the beginning of this year.

MSI P67A-GD55
G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB 2x4gb
EVGA GTX 580
OCZ Vertex 2 80GB SSD
i5 2500K I OC'd it to 4ghz but it could go much higher. Only using a Hyper 212 though so I'm satisfied with the OC I have.
Corsair HX 850

I kind of wished that I would have went with SLI 560 TIs as they outperform one GTX 580 and possibly saved the few extra bucks and went with the i7 2600k but oh well. The i5 2500k does well enough for gaming.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/cowboyszone/thread_stuff/nerdfight_large.jpg

[tupperware]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/cowboyszone/thread_stuff/nerdfight_large.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/cowboyszone/thread_stuff/nerdfight_large.jpg)
:laugh2:

[Sam I Am]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/cowboyszone/thread_stuff/nerdfight_large.jpg

Are you trying to say we are nerds?

Only a nerd would know how to query Wikipedia using DNS TXT record request in Linux. :omg:

dig +short txt Dallas\ Cowboys.wp.dg.cx

;)

[Kilyin]

That's a pretty solid system though. I built mine the beginning of this year.

MSI P67A-GD55
G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB 2x4gb
EVGA GTX 580
OCZ Vertex 2 80GB SSD
i5 2500K I OC'd it to 4ghz but it could go much higher. Only using a Hyper 212 though so I'm satisfied with the OC I have.
Corsair HX 850

I kind of wished that I would have went with SLI 560 TIs as they outperform one GTX 580 and possibly saved the few extra bucks and went with the i7 2600k but oh well. The i5 2500k does well enough for gaming.

To address the OP...

I would never overclock a laptop unless it was custom built to withstand the punishment. Most are pushing thermal limits as is.

And to compare e-peens...

I went way overboard in May of 2010.

ASUS Rampage III Extreme LGA 1366
Intel Core i7-980X 6 core Extreme Edition OC'd to 4.0 GHZ daily, sometimes more
2 x GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB SLI OC'd
12GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
4 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA - RAID 0
1 x CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ATX12V

All custom water cooled.

Do I win teh prize?

[Jenky]

Intel i7 2600k @ 4.7 GHz (I can go higher)
Asus Maximus IV socket 1155 (Come out Sandy Bridge-E already)
MSI GTX 580 Lightning Xtreme 3GB SLI
Crucial c300 SSD (boot)
Hitachi 3TB HDD
Hitachi 1TB HDD
2 x 4GB 1600 Corsair Vengeance Ram 8-8-8-24 timings
Crap DVD burner/writer
corsair h70 cooler

[tupperware]

Intel i7 2600k @ 4.7 GHz (I can go higher)
Asus Maximus IV socket 1155 (Come out Sandy Bridge-E already)
MSI GTX 580 Lightning Xtreme 3GB SLI
Crucial c300 SSD (boot)
Hitachi 3TB HDD
Hitachi 1TB HDD
2 x 4GB 1600 Corsair Vengeance Ram 8-8-8-24 timings
Crap DVD burner/writer
corsair h70 cooler
I thought about getting the H70.

[Jenky]

I thought about getting the H70.

They've released a couple additional ones. Think I saw the h100 but I don't think its worth the price for performance.

[ConcordCowboy]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/cowboyszone/thread_stuff/nerdfight_large.jpg

:laugh2:

[Sam I Am]

To address the OP...

I would never overclock a laptop unless it was custom built to withstand the punishment. Most are pushing thermal limits as is.

And to compare e-peens...

I went way overboard in May of 2010.

ASUS Rampage III Extreme LGA 1366
Intel Core i7-980X 6 core Extreme Edition OC'd to 4.0 GHZ daily, sometimes more
2 x GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB SLI OC'd
12GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
4 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA - RAID 0
1 x CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ATX12V

All custom water cooled.

Do I win teh prize?

Your wife should beat you stupid for buying (ie paying for) a rig like that.

My rig will play anything on the market to a high enough level that the human eye couldn't tell the difference and I've only spent $430 in the last year. ($630 in the last two years, ie $200 for the video card)

Why 12GBs of ram? Bet you don't have a single app that uses more than 6GBs. There is no game that uses 6GBs.

[tupperware]

Your wife should beat you stupid for buying (ie paying for) a rig like that.

My rig will play anything on the market to a high enough level that the human eye couldn't tell the difference and I've only spent $430 in the last year. ($630 in the last two years, ie $200 for the video card)

Why 12GBs of ram? Bet you don't have a single app that uses more than 6GBs. There is no game that uses 6GBs.
http://www.fishing.net.nz/asp_forums/uploads/55197/my-epeen.jpg

He probably bought the processor before the Sandy Bridge CPU's. I wouldn't have coughed up the dough for them though.

My rig kills anything out there right now and probably for the foreseeable future. I can't fault the guy too much though. PC's are my passion. If I had more available money I'd probably have built another few just to have them as spares, lol.