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I love the outrage over this - it doesn't really matter and you still have a product that actually does what it's supposed to.
I think if you are trying to squeeze 5% additional performance out of a gaming laptop, then you probably made the wrong choice to buy one in the first place.....
I have a gaming laptop with an 870M in it. I can play everything I want to play on it even Battlefield 4 with a high level of graphical detail and it runs nicely. The thought of overclocking it has never crossed my mind, and to be honest, it runs pretty hot already and I could probably do without the scorch marks on my desk.
Does anyone here really game on a laptop? I have a fairly decent AMD laptop at work (which coincidentally I have never tried to OC) and have played a few of my steam games on it but even though the frames were fine and the settings were quite high, it never felt like it does playing on my Desktop.
I hate... lamp!
Gregster I'm kind of shocked at this statement, my 980M SLI setup is only scoring 10% less than your dual titan setup (on the list you curate), if that's not worth gaming on why is anyone bothering at all?
For air cooled dual card setups on an enthusiast website I am getting 31st with my notebook, beating out many 970 SLI desktop setups? Are you going around telling 970 owners to stop messing around with their cards because they are too low end to bother?
So according to nvidia my system needs more fans?
Also two 330w power supplies is not enough?
The fact that most people think overclocking a laptop will decrease its lifespan is the most concerning thing.
Simply increasing the clockspeed does LITTLE for temperatures or power use. You're looking at maybe a 2-3 degree rise on temps which can easily be tamed with a cooling pad or better thermal paste.
I've seen countless comments when I've googled for information on overclocking laptop GPUs: "OMG DONT OC THE LAPTOP YOU NOOB UR GONNA DESTROY THE WORLD"
The fact that so many people think adjusting a clock offset and not touching voltage does anything for heat/power use is simply disturbing.
In fact, why aren't people chastising NVidia for not putting a power limit in mobile GPUs like desktop? Or allowing me to undervolt my mobile GPU so I can figure out the lowest possible voltage for stock clocks?
My girlfriend's laptop has a 760M and I run it at +100 boost clock. It's FREE PERFORMANCE!?!?!?!!!!!?!
If I do something to my 760M that it doesn't like, the driver crashes. That's basically all. Worst case, I corrupt Windows if I'm SUPER unlucky, but almost a 0% chance for hardware damage.
Want a laptop ? want to OC it ? dont spec an Nvidia part. Simple.... now run along.
So ignoring the companies supplying Nvidia 980m based laptops which advertise overclocking as a feature, the people that bought these laptops and had that advertised feature removed at a later date through a driver update?
All well and good making every mobile part they sell FROM NOW ON not able to overclock AND advertising that fact AND making sure no partners advertise it as a feature.
How would you like it if Nvidia remove overclocking on your Nvidia card now after selling it to you with a variety of overclocking features?
The real question is, why have they now started to lock down overclocking and were actively having it advertised as a selling feature before.... problems with dying 980M's in laptops? Not like Nvidia have a history for getting thermal spec on materials wrong which killed 100's of millions worth of laptops is it.
who the hell OC's their laptop anyway
Does anyone here really game on a laptop? I have a fairly decent AMD laptop at work (which coincidentally I have never tried to OC) and have played a few of my steam games on it but even though the frames were fine and the settings were quite high, it never felt like it does playing on my Desktop.
I don't understand why people buy "gaming laptops" anyway. My laptop is capable of gaming, but I appreciate that I can't play the biggest AAA titles at the settings and FPS I would on my PC. And who the hell wants to overclock a laptop? I thought most people used a laptop when travelling/not near power sockets, so you want lower power consumption. If you game full time on a laptop...then please, do yourself a favour and buy a desktop. You're paying more for the laptop.
People need to stop QQing about every small change. Nvidia obviously feel that overclocking the part is going to do more harm than good. At the end of the day, most people will overclock it, and then complain to the manufacturer when it dies, who then have to deal with Nvidia.
As for the guy above, who posted the GPU-Z photo...why do you run a gaming laptop 24/7? Makes no sense...
Want a laptop ? want to OC it ? dont spec an Nvidia part. Simple.... now run along.