help with this laptop overclocking dilemma, should i or not?

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Kareem Ayman

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hi. i have a laptop, a Vaio E15 Series, i5 3230m, which is abseloutely fine, i'm also intending to change the HDD to a faster one sometime later and upgrading the ram with extra 4gb, but for the graphics card, apparently vaio had pretty limited options for it, the highest card was a 7650m. now with the clock thingy, the intel processor, i already put it on turbo boost mode, and it was running never faster, for the gpu, i want to overclock. now before i get into this subject, i wanted to say that i did this before and i got a HUGE difference in graphical performance, specialy in warface when the fps moved from 40 to direct 50-55fps which abseloutely surprised me with just a 100mhz. but then an error occured. i had a kernel problem. i have read about it and found out it's the kernel mode.i could've stuck into user mode and re-overclocked, but then i stumbled into a website saying that error could've happened because of regular overclocking, and it might not be that necessary or specific that it was the kernel mode, so i got worried and concerned.the question here, is the laptop safe to overclock? i mean only a extra 100mhz nothing more, from 500 to 600mhz.and if it is, is any program safe or i'll have to get stuck with a specific program? i was used to using msi afterburner and it was extremely easy to handle, the question is, if it is ever available safely to overclock, should i use the afterburner again? or should i use another program like gpu tweak? i want an answer for this really i don't know what to do i'm stuck in this, please help.should i re-overclock or not? if i can what settings should i stick to to make it as safe as possible with the most performance i could come up with? and also should i stick to the program i know or go for another easier and safer one?
thanks for reading this and please answer in the comments below.
 
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Darren Kitchin

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you can overclock them but laptops are more succeptable to heat damage due to their fine design. If you had a fan underneath it and can maintain temperatures no hotter than 55 then you should be fine, to test the stability and how hot it can get prime95 torture test can help determine stability. It should be run for no less than 30minutes, although you should test it for an extended period of time whilst ensuring the temps arent getting to high.
 
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so what i'm sure of with no tests at all, msi afterburner was checking the tempreature, the 7650m was running on full load with 54 degrees, and if helpful, it increases about like 9 degress when i overclocked. max was ever at 68 degrees and that's like the HIGHEST max degree. i have a good cooler master underneath fan and right now it seems pretty good.although i never tested it out with full load using turbo boost. although you didn't answer my question, are you sure it woun't cause any problems? i mean does its bios ok? going twice for the service center for the same error might get be suspicious over time :/ for the heat i will do the prime95 test, till then, please answer if its bios are ok with overclocking and won't cause any trouble, and i'm running on a win 8 OS so i hope that's not a problem as well. thanks :D
 
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ok so i did run it, the kombustor, the results were pretty good to me, since now it has turbo boost, a 6 degrees raise is brilliant :D the card went from 48 degrees to 60 in the first 15 minutes, and maintained a steady 60 degrees the next 16. it was on 99% load so yeah basically it might get near the 75 degrees after that 100hz but not more than that. it's relatively ok for my old laptop that reached 71 degrees using stuff only like internet explorer and on running a browser game it passes the 100 degrees point. this laptop is alive for 3 years though which means that anything below 90 degrees isn't actually bad.now still should the overclocking be safe with user mode or no? i just want to remind this is unofficial overclocking and it has nothing to do with unlocking the card has a limit of 670 mhz that i can push through from 500mhz, so i think this little extra thing is meant to be done if was meant to, exactly like turbo boost.still i'm worried the reason of the OC error was other than kernel mode, i just need to make sure it is so i don't screw up my laptop again.also want to find out if windows 8 will make a threat whatsoever so please answer that.
 
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thats pretty alright, my rule is never over 65 for a pc omponent and around 55-60 for a laptop. Sorry however prime95 is for the cpu not gpu so kombuster is a great app for that. In all honesty if you can run a 30 minute prime or 3d card OC with kombust you are doing well. hitting 60 for say 12 hour periods can be very deformative to hardware operations, but I guess you wouldn't reallt hit that category
 
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MSI oc program's are pretty damn alright.

overclocking is always going to reduce hardware's lifetime, from what info you have supplied so far I can't see it being an extreme issue where in a couple of weeks it would die if you were to permanently overclock it. If you do notice random system instabilities this could be because of the overclock.
Myself I believe that should be fine, you have a cooling solution implemented, the temperatures aren't really going too extreme, plus the amount of time you spend gaming on it doesn't sound like it will be much.
 
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wow, shortens hardware lifetime, think i will even underclock it XD. for the turbo boost does it do so as well? cuz if so i will remove it totally just tell me,please. thank you for your answer i think i will stick to battlefield 3 and let 4 go, that if i couldn't run it on beta, if i did, i WILL buy it. thank you for your patience and sticking for me :D still please tell me will turbo boost affect my cpu lifetime at all?
 
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