Dell Inspiron 7559 Overclocking, It's great...

[Mnky313]

After experimenting with overclocking using MSI afterburner and attempting to overclock using Intel XTU (which doesn't seem to be possible with the i5-6300hq), then settling for undervolting it, I managed to get the i5 to run at 2.8-2.9Ghz all the time under load, while maintaining a very reasonable 80 degrees C or below (without elevating the laptop, elevating it dropped the temps down to 67 degrees for sustained load, but still 2.9Ghz), and the 960m to overclock to the max allowed +135Mhz, boosting up to 1324MHz and sustaining that even under a 30 minute full GPU, CPU, FPU, cache, and memory stress test in aida64.  I am genuinely amazed by the overclocking/undervolting potential of this laptop... anyone have anything to add... (here are some images:) [just an addition, this boosted the 3DMark Firestrike scores by more than 10%, stock (with high performance mode active) it got 3896, with the overclock and undervolt it got 4325!]

[Mnky313]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Holy crap. How loud does it get?

Quite loud under the stress test, but playing games (far cry 3) for example it doesn't seem to be any louder. I would say audible in a place like a library, but could barely hear it sitting a foot from it with earbuds in writing this.

[Pendragon]

7 minutes ago, Mnky313 said:

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I'd say you should probably repaste it just for acoustics. It's not hard and the 7559 is easily accessible. Doesn't void warranty either. Also use Throttlestop to undervolt. How much -x mv are you getting on Skylake? Should be around like -120mv. XTU is a pain to use. 

 

Also test using OCCT+Unigine Heaven and not just games. Games are super inconsistent. They're good for testing usability because even when your rock solid benchmarking it can still crash for games, but to test temps and max clocks you should always use benchmarks. 

 

Run those two benchs with hwinfo and msi afterburner to moniter. task manager is terrible. LOL. 

 

^super nitty gritty if you want to min max.

[Mnky313]

3 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

I'd say you should probably repaste it just for acoustics. It's not hard and the 7559 is easily accessible. Doesn't void warranty either. Also use Throttlestop to undervolt. How much -x mv are you getting on Skylake? Should be around like -120mv. XTU is a pain to use. 

 

Also test using OCCT+Unigine Heaven and not just games. Games are super inconsistent. They're good for testing usability because even when your rock solid benchmarking it can still crash for games, but to test temps and max clocks you should always use benchmarks. 

gonna run Heaven tomorrow, getting kind of late. as for advise on repasting, might get around to it. and yes, you guessed exactly -120mv, stress testing -135mv as we speak, well as we type...

[Mnky313]

12 minutes ago, Mnky313 said:

gonna run Heaven tomorrow, getting kind of late. as for advise on repasting, might get around to it. and yes, you guessed exactly -120mv, stress testing -135mv as we speak, well as we type...

Holy S***, Undervolted at -135mv, it is running at 2.9Ghz constantly, and only 60 degrees!, how is it doing this!, my desktop doesn't even sit at 55 under barely any load! (fx-4350 overclocked to 4.9Ghz with Hyper 212 EVO)

[Pendragon]

4 minutes ago, Mnky313 said:

Holy S***, Undervolted at -135mv,

Wats ur stress test. And also push higher. I've seen -180mv chips. Very few, but some. Maybe you'll have a golden one. 

[Mnky313]

17 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

I'd say you should probably repaste it just for acoustics. It's not hard and the 7559 is easily accessible. Doesn't void warranty either. Also use Throttlestop to undervolt. How much -x mv are you getting on Skylake? Should be around like -120mv. XTU is a pain to use. 

 

Also test using OCCT+Unigine Heaven and not just games. Games are super inconsistent. They're good for testing usability because even when your rock solid benchmarking it can still crash for games, but to test temps and max clocks you should always use benchmarks. 

 

Run those two benchs with hwinfo and msi afterburner to moniter. task manager is terrible. LOL. 

 

^super nitty gritty if you want to min max.

alright, running Heaven with Rivatuner running tomorrow, ill update later, probably around 3pm est tomorrow. 

[Mnky313]

1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

Wats ur stress test. And also push higher. I've seen -180mv chips. Very few, but some. Maybe you'll have a golden one. 

using Aida64 extreme, CPU, FPU, and Cache, alright, pushing it to -150mv.

[Mnky313]

16 minutes ago, Mnky313 said:

using Aida64 extreme, CPU, FPU, and Cache, alright, pushing it to -150mv.

WTF IS THIS THING MADE OF, leaving it for over an hour at -195mv, It's looking good so far!

[Pendragon]

57 minutes ago, Mnky313 said:

WTF IS THIS THING MADE OF, leaving it for over an hour at -195mv, It's looking good so far!

Use OCCT. http://www.ocbase.com/

If you get -195mv stable I think that's the highest I've heard of. 

[Mnky313]

On my way to school, I'll run a test there, but I had left it for 15-20min on -195mv, stress test in occt

[Mnky313]

Alright, set it to -200mv as a test,it crashed.  loaded back in, set it to -195mv again, crashed. loaded back in, set it to -190mv, crashed. loaded in, set it to -185mv, stable. alright then...

[Edit] Seems to be stable at -185mv, but I don't know why 195mv was stable enough yesterday to run a 15min stress test, but crashed immediately today...

 

[Pendragon]

5 hours ago, Mnky313 said:

[Edit] Seems to be stable at -185mv, but I don't know why 195mv was stable enough yesterday to run a 15min stress test, but crashed immediately today...

 

 

-185mv is solid. You can probably hit like 45C max load on ur CPU if you use liquid metal (not recommended for beginners). It'd be cool to see.

[Mnky313]

51 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

-185mv is solid. You can probably hit like 45C max load on ur CPU if you use liquid metal (not recommended for beginners). It'd be cool to see.

Ran heaven, got 968 I think, somewhere around that, below 1000, that was without any cooling pads or elevation, testing it again in the next 30 min with cooling improvements, IN heaven the GPU boosts up to 1337MHz, and it stays there the entire time.

 

[Mnky313]

7 hours ago, Pendragon said:

-185mv is solid. You can probably hit like 45C max load on ur CPU if you use liquid metal (not recommended for beginners). It'd be cool to see.

Sorry for the late reply, but ran Heaven, seems stable at -175mv, it works on -185mv, but only crashes after the CPU/GPU have stopped being under load, weird...

whatever, ran Heaven on medium no AA, no Tessellation, got a score of 1653.

[64ashg]

On 3/18/2017 at 5:58 AM, Mnky313 said:

Sorry for the late reply, but ran Heaven, seems stable at -175mv, it works on -185mv, but only crashes after the CPU/GPU have stopped being under load, weird...

whatever, ran Heaven on medium no AA, no Tessellation, got a score of 1653.

here stable at -170 mV on the cpu and +120 core gpu and +310MHz memory

Your values crashed my hitman in dx12, but gta 5 ran fine. Seems like you did win a silocon lottery.

But this system is one hell of a overclocker.

This config is giving stable results till now

[TheDankKoosh]

I wish haswell undervolted this well, 4720hq gets hot and can barely sustain boost ;(

[Pendragon]

6 hours ago, TheDankKoosh said:

I wish haswell undervolted this well, 4720hq gets hot and can barely sustain boost ;(

Haswell couldn't even keep proper turbo clocks LOL. Unless you got the extreme editions the HQ versions were a nightmare. 

[TheDankKoosh]

Just now, Pendragon said:

Haswell couldn't even keep proper turbo clocks LOL. Unless you got the extreme editions the HQ versions were a nightmare. 

It's one reason that I can't wait to get my new clevo, tired of hot and shitty processors. At least kaby can sustain boost and undervolt well.

[Pendragon]

5 minutes ago, TheDankKoosh said:

It's one reason that I can't wait to get my new clevo, tired of hot and shitty processors. At least kaby can sustain boost and undervolt well.

Oh you got one? Which one did you get? Where did you get it from? Specs? Hype. 

[TheDankKoosh]

59 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

Oh you got one? Which one did you get? Where did you get it from? Specs? Hype. 

(Getting), and I will be getting the P670HS-G from hidveloution, sadly since I will be spending a little extra and getting a 1070 equipped laptop, I won't be able to get a 7820hk. But I think that the 7700hq will be fine.

[Pendragon]

24 minutes ago, TheDankKoosh said:

7820hk. But I think that the 7700hq will be fine.

Hmmmm, why not get it from LPC? They offer better prices. HID is for the ultra-high-end enthusiasts. Granted HID has some tier 1 customer service unless you're getting their custom GS63VR or the DTR's I don't feel justified in paying the price premium (granted the premium dropped from 100 to like 30 because they now offer OEM Windows but still you know, money is money). Just my opinion. 

[TheDankKoosh]

On 3/20/2017 at 11:16 PM, Pendragon said:

Hmmmm, why not get it from LPC? They offer better prices. HID is for the ultra-high-end enthusiasts. Granted HID has some tier 1 customer service unless you're getting their custom GS63VR or the DTR's I don't feel justified in paying the price premium (granted the premium dropped from 100 to like 30 because they now offer OEM Windows but still you know, money is money). Just my opinion. 

Actually, LPC has terrible prices for the config that I want. I'm going fairly minimum by getting no ssd or any other addons and the price from HID is like 1650.

[Imglidinhere]

On 3/16/2017 at 10:24 PM, Pendragon said:

I'd say you should probably repaste it just for acoustics. It's not hard and the 7559 is easily accessible. Doesn't void warranty either. Also use Throttlestop to undervolt. How much -x mv are you getting on Skylake? Should be around like -120mv. XTU is a pain to use. 

 

Also test using OCCT+Unigine Heaven and not just games. Games are super inconsistent. They're good for testing usability because even when your rock solid benchmarking it can still crash for games, but to test temps and max clocks you should always use benchmarks. 

 

Run those two benchs with hwinfo and msi afterburner to moniter. task manager is terrible. LOL. 

 

^super nitty gritty if you want to min max.

This machine runs so cool at stock, I'd only repaste if something was genuinely wrong. Even if it IS a bad paste-job at the start, the temps are still too low to warrant even opening it up unless I'm adding another drive. Not broken, so why fix it?  

[64ashg]

Has anyone considered overclocking the display? the philips ips panel goes till 96hz in my case, people have managed till 106hz..