4700/4800/4900MQ Overclock-able or not

[Alpha3031]

Is the Haswell MQ (Edit: assuming I have proper cooling) series overclockable or not(Edit: that particular laptop also has the option to use the MX CPU but that puts me way above budget so not considering it)? Which should I get? The 800 is $200 extra and the 900 is $500? Why can't I make this both a poll and a question?

 

[jacobian]

funny thing, overclocking seems much more complicated on a laptop

What's funny about this? Most hardware coming from name brands, be it laptops and desktops, are relatively closed and proprietary. You can run into locked proprietary bios, non-standard motherboard and power supply form factor, etc. Overclocking is mostly a DIYer thing that begins with a dedicated "overclocking" motherboard, something you don't get from brand PCs.

 

[Beetlebox]

The nice thing is that with sidestep technology is that when you are not doing anything, the CPU may be idling at a low frequency, even when overclocked.

You mean speedstep and that is old for power saving. With higher C-States the processor is actually stopped and with C6 power gating will switch off voltages to the cores.

 

[Alpha3031]

Now, how can I close this thread?