Aorus x5 965m SLI Laptop Overlock

SteezusChrist · August 3, 2015

I recently purchased the Aorus x5 laptop about a month ago, they claim that the new x5 is the fastest 15.6" laptop in the world. If you don't know the specs they go as the following, 5th Generation Intel i7-5700HQ, 16gb of 1866 DDR3, Nvidia 965m SLI, 2x M.2 256GB SSD Raid 0, 1TB Hard drive, 2880x1620 IPS 3k Display. I was curious to see how well this laptop ran an to have an accurate comparison, I hooked it up to my 2560x1440 korean monitor to compare against my i5 3570k overclocked to 4.4ghz and EVGA Gtx 780 overclocked to 1250 mhz gpu clock desktop. I used 3DMark Firestrike Extreme as a quick comparison and my laptop surprisingly won at a score of 4429 and my desktop at a 4304. I then downloaded EVGA Precision X on my laptop and tinkered with the gpu clock offset while running 3dmark as a quick test, I was able to gain an additional +135 mhz(the max they let you go) and run a full 3dmark test without crashing or visual inconsistencies. After each test I would immediately check the gpu temps and the hottest gpu ran at 56 degrees celsius which does not seem bad at all. The best score I achieved on FireStrike Extreme ended up being 4710, that's 216 away from their "Gaming PC Oculus Rift Recommended PC." I will run a 24 hour burn in test on Prime 95 to make sure it is 100% stable but does anybody see anything wrong or alarming that I'm doing to my laptop. I've built well over 20 desktops and yet this is my first laptop so my info may be a little rusty. I don't know what recommended temps are for laptops either.

SkywardKkalox · August 3, 2015

Due to high thermals overclocking on laptops is NOT reccomended.

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D2ultima · August 3, 2015

While normally two 965M cards should be so cool you couldn't force them to overheat even if you wanted to, that laptop may not be capable of dealing with both the CPU and GPU heat it could put out. Even the Aorus X7 throttles with 970M SLI at stock in certain gaming scenarios.

If you aren't playing anything that overheats it, go ahead with your OCing. The GPUs will throttle at 87c anyway, whether you're OC'd or not.

Due to high thermals overclocking on laptops is NOT reccomended

Hi, please leave the year 2005.

SteezusChrist · August 4, 2015

While normally two 965M cards should be so cool you couldn't force them to overheat even if you wanted to, that laptop may not be capable of dealing with both the CPU and GPU heat it could put out. Even the Aorus X7 throttles with 970M SLI at stock in certain gaming scenarios.

If you aren't playing anything that overheats it, go ahead with your OCing. The GPUs will throttle at 87c anyway, whether you're OC'd or not.

Hi, please leave the year 2005.

Thank you for you're beneficial response, I've been messing around in GTA V with almost max settings and it seems that they are running pretty after an hour of playing around 55-60 degrees, the cpu can get a little toasty and when I was maxing it out on Prime 95 I got it up to 92 degrees celsius.

D2ultima · August 4, 2015

Thank you for you're beneficial response, I've been messing around in GTA V with almost max settings and it seems that they are running pretty after an hour of playing around 55-60 degrees, the cpu can get a little toasty and when I was maxing it out on Prime 95 I got it up to 92 degrees celsius.

With GTA you might be running into a CPU bottleneck, though even though my 780Ms are far better cooled they don't get hot in GTA for me even when at a GPU bottleneck point. I think GTA V got a bit more optimized too lately; last time I tried it for just testing purposes (was after a month of not playing it) it ran a lot better than before.

You probably ran into a power limit with Prime95 rather than a temp limit, considering the HQ CPUs. Anyway, if they work for you, go ahead. Hopefully you got one of those legendary sets of golden chips.