[SOLVED] how much should i overclock gtx 960m (laptop card)

[Rkbot]

Hello there. I have a GTX 960m in my laptop

Can anyone please tell me what would be the best and safest overclocked core clock and memory clock for this GPU?? thanks in advance

 

[Darkbreeze]

None. Unless you want to see it fail early. Laptops have precisely calibrated cooling systems designed to ONLY be capable of handling the CPU and GPU hardware in it's manufacturer intended configuration, nothing more, and often barely even for that.

Overclocking ANYTHING in a laptop, is a direct recipe for an early hardware failure. Which is a warning practically everybody ignores and then ends up back here two months later crying about how their system is throttling itself even under normal conditions now, or doesn't work at all anymore. So...................

 

[Rkbot]

Ok. So I don’t know if u can help with this but when playing games im no where near even 90% gpu usage and sometimes my frames start dropping. I searched my bottleneck percentage and it’s 17% because the CPU is better than GPU. Since overclocking isn’t an Option, what should I do to get my full GPU usage

 

[geofelt]

Gaming laptops are notorious for thermal throttling.
That is because of the need for small and light coolers.
Even if you could overclock the graphics chip, your fps limitation will more likely be because of heat and cpu thermal throttling.

 

[USAFRet]

Ok. So I don’t know if u can help with this but when playing games im no where near even 90% gpu usage and sometimes my frames start dropping. I searched my bottleneck percentage and it’s 17% because the CPU is better than GPU. Since overclocking isn’t an Option, what should I do to get my full GPU usage

That "percentage" is a useless number. Pure snake oil.

Your performance is lacking, because it is in a laptop and overheating.

 

[Darkbreeze]

What is the ACTUAL model of your laptop, including any sub model, CPU model, etc.?

Bottom line really, is that laptops are terrible choices for gaming. A console is a better choice for gaming, much as it pains me to say that, than any laptop. Any halfway decent desktop, is better by far than any console or laptop. It doesn't matter how capable a laptop is, they ALL can only fit a very limited amount of cooling hardware under the hood, so they all have about the same cooling capabilities no matter if the marketing department bills them as "gaming laptops" and the design department shoves more and more capable hardware into the limited dimensions of the chassis, or not.