Do I have a decent overclocker?

[BluJay614]

So, I got my new laptop, opened it up, cleaned it as best I could without canned air(first image is just what I was able to get off the heatsink for the gpu). Unfortunately, i'm the process, I either killed one of the 8GB SODIMMs or it decided to die on me. Luckily, I had a 4GB stick from the last laptop I could salvage, so I'm only down from 16GB to 12GB (I'll live for now). 

Anywho, once I got that done, I reran Unigine Heaven and Valley, and temps came down ~10C. I popped open Afterburner and found it won't let me adjust the voltage, power limit, temp limit, or fan speed. Even messing around with clock speeds was kinda buggy at times. The highest I could get it to accept and actually be stable with was +100MHz on the Core, and +200MHz on the Memory. 

Here's the settings I used for each benchmark:

Heaven

API: DirectX 11

Quality: Ultra

Tessellation: Extreme 

Stereo 3D: Disabled

Multi-Monitor: Disabled

Fullscreen: ☑ 

Resolution: 1920x1080

Valley

API: DirectX 11

Quality: Ultra

Stereo 3D: Disabled

Monitors: Single

Anti-aliasing: x8

Fullscreen: ☑ 

Resolution: 1920x1080

 

Vsync was off for both benchmarks. Power setting was set to high, laptop was plugged in, no perifrials where plugged in, and only Afterburner was left running. 

 

Heaven

Stock (1038 Core 2505 Memory) 

877

Max temp: 70C

Avg FPS: 34.8

Max: 74.5

Min: 18.1

OC (1138 Core 2705 Memory) 

954

Max temp: 78C

Avg FPS: 37.9

Max: 81.1

Min: 18.7

 

Heaven

Stock

1512

Max temp: 71C

Avg FPS: 36.1

Max: 66.5

Min: 20.0

OC

1640

Max temp: 71C

Avg FPS: 39.2

Max: 72.8

Min: 21.2

 

System specs:

i7 4720HQ

GTX 970m 3GB

12GB DDR3 1333

120GB 850 EVO

1TB 7200rpm HDD

15.6" IPS panel

[RoyalGamer1]

No point in overclocking a laptop. Unless you like having an oven on your lap