can't overclock the 7970m

Avinoam73

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i've heard that the 7970m overclocks pretty well, and i've been trying to OC it but without succes. i'm usng msi afterburner 2.2.0 and i've unlocked the sliders but whenever i press apply after i overclock it nothing changes.on afterburner it looks like i've done it but i can't notice any changes. if anything, i get worse performance.
what am i doing wring here?
thanks.
 

mr1hm

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there are other programs out there but, are generally very similar to each other. there are possibilities of overclocking without software like BIOS modding but, i don't think it's recommended for laptop GPUs.
 

mr1hm

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other than Afterburner, there really isn't much but, off the top of my head, your choices would be EVGA Precision X or Sapphire TrixX.

if those programs don't allow for overclocking either, then i'd say the laptop manufacturer has locked the clocks from going any higher.