Should I overclock, or stick with turbo boost?

Hi, I'm a new member, and I just recently received my m11x (It's amazing), and I had a quick question about overclocking, to anyone who has actually done it.

Basically, what I'm wondering is this: could a high enough overclock (or, let's say a middle ground one, somewhere right in the middle of the 134-166 mhz limit) be better than the stock clock with turbo boost enabled? My computer is handling everything with ease, but I'm wondering if it could run even better if I overclock it.

That about does it.

 

I personally haven't found a reason to overclock

you say you're handling everything with ease, so why bother? Just a thought

 

I overclock my core i5 to around 156, i have noticed between 5-10 fps increase on Borderlands and a couple others. My comp does feel warmer during everyday tasks though. Test it, and feel it out for yourself

 

Yeah just play around with it. I have mine at 166 the whole time it's on power, turbo on too.

 

I've also found no need to OC, but I suppose its personal preference, as well as what frame rates you're getting on the games you play. At the moment I'm playing CS and whilst I've no idea what the actual frame rates I'm getting are, its fast enough.

 

Overclocking will cause your computer to run hotter, and it will decrease battery life. The performance you get depends on what you are doing with the laptop.

In almost every situation, overclocking will not yield any noticeable performance benefits. When you run games, you are bottlenecking on your GPU, so overclocking the CPU won't help. When you load applications, you are bottlenecking on your hard drive or SSD, so overclocking the CPU won't help there either.

The only situation where overclocking the CPU would help is if you were running something that bottlenecks on the CPU, like video encoding. On top of that, you would also need to be something that is multi-threaded that bottlenecks on the CPU, because Turbo Boost will kick in on single-threaded CPU-bound activities.

 

Actually, I don't really see any difference in discharge rate when I'm OC'd.

 

Most of the time I keep Turbo and OC disabled. Only when I play games I enable my Turbo. I only OC and Turbo enable the settings when I play SC2. Although, some games like NFS: Shift don't require any sort of changes to the settings, the GPU does most of the work. I guess it really depends, everyone above is right with the heat, it does significantly increase. Definitely only change those settings on a table rather than your lap!

 

I'm not sure what it is that people who are disabling turboboost thing they're gaining.

 

stupid question... how do you turn on turbo boost?

 

It's on by default, unless you turned it off. And you turn it off in BIOS --> Advanced.

 

Play GTA 4 or its addons and you will see ;-)

 

inside your bios and its suppose to be on by default

 

Turning it off temporarily for the very rare game that might see some benefit is one thing. People leaving it off as a rule is quite another.

 

Turn Turbo Boost off if you want to turn your i5 540um into an i3 330um. You could possibly save battery life, reduce heat and performance.

 

I tried it a couple of days and didn't see much in the way of battery life, but performance did suffer. (i7)

I don't think it's worth it to disable turboboost.

 

Perhaps, I just leave it off anyways when I do work. Since turbo is activated during more demanding things, I am not sure sometimes if it turns on during watching a movie or w.e. I don't know exactly how it works or if it kicks in the wrong time, so I just have it off 90% of the time.

 

In my opinion, there is no obvious difference after oc,i7-640um is really enough for common using.Turboboost maybe a fine way to incease your laptop performance,you can get a balance between battery life and effective gaming experience.Optimus wants to do it ,too.So that's the reason why dell brought us M11x