Overclocking help

[SPACECOWB0Y]

Hi,

I am new to the world of PC. I had been using mac for the past 7 years. Can some one please help me set up my Asus ROG G751JY for overclocking? What are the best settings? I have a i7-4720 and 32 gigs of ram. I am running windows 10 64bit. Please let me know what other information you need to help me out. Thank you.

[SPACECOWB0Y]

I would also like to ask, do I need a program for overclocking or do I just make adjustments in bios?

[Nate152]

Hello SPACECOWBOY

Welcome to the ROG forum.

it's not recommended to overclock a laptop because it doesn't have sufficient cooling for overclocking but you can overclock the gpu using any of these three programs.

Asus GPU Tweak, EVGA Precision X, MSI Afterburner.

[SPACECOWB0Y]

Thanks Nate152,

Wow, bummer on the cooling issue.

Which of those three programs do you recommend for overclocking GPU?

[Nate152]

It has different skins, I choose the gaming skin.

[SPACECOWB0Y]

Hey, I set up afterburner. I agree, from what I read it seams to work better than evga precision x. What settings do you use? I am on a gtx 980m 4gb.

[GamingLAD]

Nate152 wrote:
Hello SPACECOWBOY

Welcome to the ROG forum.

it's not recommended to overclock a laptop because it doesn't have sufficient cooling for overclocking but you can overclock the gpu using any of these three programs.

Asus GPU Tweak, EVGA Precision X, MSI Afterburner.

Like Nate152 said overclocking a laptop CPU can end in tears quickly, or at least a very warm lap!

I have a fangbook gaming laptop for travel and it heats up like crazy, so bad that I have a small laptop cooler which keeps the temps down to OK levels.

[Nate152]

I personally use MSI Afterburner for gpu overclocking, it has on screen display to show information about your gpu, clock speeds, temps etc..

If you install HWInfo, Afterburner can show cpu temps as well.

[Nate152]

My settings won't be the same as your settings and overclocking your gtx 980m is trial and error. Start up a game then alt+tab out of the game and increase the core clock 10MHz, alt+enter to return to the game, keep doing this until the driver crashes then back it off 10MHz - 20MHz. Once you get the maximum core clock do the same thing with the memory clock, increase it until the driver crashes or you get artifacting then back it off 10MHz - 20MHz.

Click apply each time after raising the clocks.

[SPACECOWB0Y]

Ok, I will do that. Thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it. What is a good temperature to keep it below? Also, how did you set your avatar? I don't see an option to upload on the edit avatar section under settings. I like your flaming reaper.