Laptop for College

[theworminator]

Hm...8500-9000 on 3dMark06? So you can probably playing just about anything short of Crysis on high. My guess at least, I can't back this up 😛

 

[Enginerd]

With the brand new laptop, i'm kinda wary of overclocking. I would like to overclock, because I know it gives great *free* performance benefits, but i'm just afraid im gonna ruin a brand new laptop. (If anyone is wondering I have already checked with gateway and the BIOS are unlocked.) Is there a *safe* range anyone could recommend that would not cause any damage or degradation, on both the cpu and gpu?

 

[theworminator]

Well, there's /always/ going to be degradation, but you just want to minimize it to a point where it's irrelevant because you'll have replaced your laptop by then. I have about a 10% overclock on all my components, which I'm guessing is alright. Hopefully I won't run into any problems. If you're really wary, 5% maybe? You won't really see much benefit from such a small OC I think.

 

[Enginerd]

In the past, I have only done overclocking on a desktop. What sort of thermal and vcore limit should i look for, since it is a laptop? (I know that mobile processors are rated higher in thermal spec.(around a 100C, i think)) Thanks in advance.

 

[theworminator]

I didn't touch any voltages, I just upped the FSB with Clockgen. In terms of thermal, a mobile CPU has a max temp of 100 degrees celsius, so it depends on how good your chassis is at cooling. Mine's pretty sweet, and even overclocked it only hits like 50-55 degrees when playing games.

 

[Enginerd]

Just arrived off the UPS truck! Can't wait to benchmark. Give you the results when I get them, probably over the weekend.

 

[Maziar]

Hope u will enjoy this beast

 

[frozenlead]

how ironic, i just got an np5793, and i'm majoring i aeronautical engineering. ha!

 

[dmacfour]

The graphics cards are pretty safe to overclock, I do it with my 8600m gt. I dunno about mobile CPUs though.. I've been told it's pretty dangerous.

 

[lostandwandering]

The graphics cards are pretty safe to overclock, I do it with my 8600m gt. I dunno about mobile CPUs though.. I've been told it's pretty dangerous.

Heat is more of an issue with laptops so in that regard yes it is more dangerous. Most laptops also don't give you the options in the BIOS, so you are forced to use software utilities which I have found rarely give a stable OC. setFSB wasn't able to produce a stable OC past 2.19ghz which is pathetic on a 2ghz stock CPU. My 7950GTX OC's rather easily on the other hand.

 

[theworminator]

Yeah, it's heat mostly. Depends on your cooling system, I know my system runs pretty cool for a gaming laptop, so I OC'ed it a bit for fun. I got a stable overclock from 2.16 (original) to about 2.4. After that, Windows was fine, but 3DMark06 wouldn't run. I chickened out at 2.5, in which Orthos wasn't posting errors, and everything except 3DMark06 was fine.