Hi first of all i would like to tell you my situation and a bit about my doubts hopefully you will understand what im trying to say, also pardon my english im not a native English speaker.
Anyway i have a clevo p1510sm i7 4700mq and a gtx765m with 16gb of ram, and the other day i was checking out gcard and cpu temps and i noticed that under heavy load the temperature of both the gcard and the cpu was never above 63 without the fans ever breaking a sweat, you could hear them working more than on idle or regular workload but they were never at max capacity. which lead me to remember that i read or saw somewhere that overclocking laptops is not a good idea because they overheat easily, however these temperatures in my system and the fact that the fans werent even working hard suggests to me that this is not the case.
I am aware that to overclock you need the cpu and gpu to come unlocked and other requirements. but if that were the case and i have overclocking ready parts on a laptop would it still be a bad idea to try to overclock it?
Also, most laptops don't have overclocking features in the BIOS. Mobile chips are manufactured to have higher heat tolerances but it does affect the lifespan of other components.
the motherboard would be affected the most since it has very limited cooling. Most laptops have cooling focused on the CPU and the GPU if it has one, and the motherboard is left to being passively cooled. So pumping more power through the motherboard than what it was designed to take would affect it's lifespan drastically. Whereas in a desktop there are fans and such providing airflow to the motherboard so that passive cooling is much more effective.
also your battery will run out of power sooner needing a recharge, meaning your batteries life is shorting cause you are increasing the the discharge, charge cycle.
I assume anyone who is overclocking a laptop will have it plugged into the wall for any kind of heavy use. Hell I keep my laptop plugged in whenever I can even if all I am doing is taking notes in class.
true this, besides in the end batteries are replaceable they may or may not be cheap but degrading your battery faster is really not something that concerns me, because if im going to game ill be running high performance mode and be plugged in otherwise my battery will be dead in a very short time
its not a question of getting a desktop or not, i have my reasons for having a laptop atm besides i never said i wanted to overclock my laptop i just asked a question on why it isnt a good idea
You are talking about increasing heat generation in an already hot environment, one that is much more tightly designed for specific power consumption and heat generation. Therefore by increasing clockspeeds you are increasing temperatures in an environment that GENERALLY does not have the tolerance for an increased temperature. So IN GENERAL, its not a good idea.
That being said, I see no reason, with the temperatures you have post, that you should not overclock your GPU.
its what i thought, frankly im very surprised with the efficiency of the cooling solution on my machine it is a bit louder than regular laptops but it keeps the full notebook so much cooler than a regular consumer laptop
If it's within your temperature and power constraints (which from your post seems like it is), id say go for it. Couldn't hurt to try, and you could probably get a reasonable overclock. But also keep in mind that laptop OEMs usually lock down voltages and don't give you very much to play with in the bios.
With the A6/8-3*** series mobile APU's overclocking is as simple as point and click using the K10STAT utility developed for the K10 series processors (which these APU's are derived from). Check out my post on OC'ing my laptop, no problem at all.