4700HQ overclocking

[roryh86]

Greetings.

I thought I'd start this thread with the hope of talking about something positive on this board, as it seems everybody's complaining. I'm happy with my G750JW, I actually love it. Very sleek design, quality materials and quite a beast for its low price. I can't understand all the negativity here to be honest. I haven't noticed issues with my screen, but I plan on replacing it with a AUO B173HW01 V5 anyway, from the reviews I read it sounds very worthwhile for an $80 investment.

Anyway, I've been scouting the internet trying to find any information about Haswell mobile overclocking, specifically our 4700HQ but to no avail. I understand that it will most probably require a modified bios. I don't plan on setting records here but I'd love to see if we can get this thing clocked to a 4800MQ. Would like to hear your opinions on whether this will be possible 😄

[hmscott]

Magnetone wrote:
Hi,
hmscott patiently helped me in another topic, so i i now am brave enough to ask more questions to all you experienced users.
as a new owner of a g750jx out of curiosity i ran a 5 minute intel extreme tuning whilst monitoring temperature via hwinfo64 and my results kind of reflect ultimazlitezjc's results:
From my amature point of view the throttling begins as soon as a cores temperature exceeds 80° celsius, which is way too low for throttling to kick in, right?Can the 209 BIOS be the cause of such behaviour and what other useful testing can be done?
Thank you all for your help
Max

ultimazlitezjc hasn't come back yet, so we don't know how it resolved...

But, it is a weird problem. I guess the only other time I have heard of this is with Power Limit Throttling. If it isn't temperature that the protection is throttling on, it must be something else - which I think only leaves power limit issues.

Do you throttle while running the Intel XTU 5 minute stress test while on battery?

There is a little blue wrench icon in the top right corner of each quadrant, including the quadrant with the sensor meters, like CPU Throttling - click that wrench and scroll to the bottom of the list, and check the "Power Limit Throttling".

Do another run of XTU Stress 5 minutes, and check to see if in addition to CPU Throttling, that the Power Limit Throttling also is kicking in.

I wonder if this anomaly started with the new release of XTU, that added Power Limit Throttling monitoring?
http://hwbot.org/newsflash/2500_xtu_v4.4_released___app_profile_pairing_and_throttle_monitoring_feat...

You might try downloading the previous version of XTU, 4.​3.​0.​11, uninstall the current version, and install the rev older version and see if you are throttling under that version's 5 minute stress test.

[Magnetone]

the g70jx is always plugged in, so no testing is done while on battery.

here are the results XTU 4.4.0.4 :


Hopefully those were the additional values and curves you are refering to.

thanks

Max

[Magnetone]

i installed XTU 4.2.0.8 and what can i say.
Not even the slightest throttling, constant temperatures, never above 89° celsius:



Your fundamental knowledge is astonishing.
So i guess that the versions of xtu > 4.2.08 cause some unexpected behaviour.


Thanks in advance and i hope i can get back to you, because there are more questions than answers ;).

Regards,

Max

[hmscott]

Magnetone wrote:
i installed XTU 4.2.0.8 and what can i say.
Not even the slightest throttling, constant temperatures, never above 89° celsius:



Your fundamental knowledge is astonishing.
So i guess that the versions of xtu > 4.2.08 cause some unexpected behaviour.


Thanks in advance and i hope i can get back to you, because there are more questions than answers ;).

Regards,

Max

Magnetone, thank goodness it was the new version of XTU causing the problem.

You might feedback your experience to Intel support with XTU so that they can fix that. 🙂

It doesn't happen to me on my G750JH, it runs the 5 minute stress test with the temp in the low 70's and doesn't throttle.

I hope ultimazlitezjc comes back and sees this thread... you might want to PM ultimazlitezjc and let him know it might be the version of XTU causing the problem, and not his laptop. 🙂

Lastly, this is a generally important find to all the G750 owners, this might also be a problem on other models besides your JX. If you start a thread with a descriptive title, like XTU 4.4.0.4 causing Throttling on JX, with your post showing the difference in runs on both versions like above then an Asus / Moderator can make it a sticky so noone else gets bit by this XTU release.

Good job sticking through to a solution Magnetone 🙂