Overclocking gtx 860m?

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Im new to this whole overclocking thing and just seem intrested, but anyways
my specs are

nvidia geforce gtx 860m
i7 4710hq

could i also overclock my cpu?? how much and what programs should i use?
With the default settings, i play mostly LoL and get steady 60 FPS on max.
 
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It is in general not recommended to overclock laptops, since they have little spare room for the extra cooling that is needed. It is not possible though on the cpu to overclock.

The gpu should be able to overclock some, you can try it with MSI afterburner or similar program.
 
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Dear Von M!

Personally I do not recommend to overclock your system if you can enjoy gaming with your laptop. I only did it for testing the capabilities of my CPU/GPU duo in my Asus G551JM.

If you insist on doing so, you should use MSI Afterburner like bootcher said or nVidia Inspector which I use. The most important thing is to do it step by step, increasing the clocks only a bit at a time. After that you should test the settings with a benchmark. If it is stable (there's no crash), you're good. If not, you should change back to the last stable settings.
The GPU core overclock should be limited to +135 MHz which means +10% FPS rate most. I got about that much of advantage with +135 MHz core and +280 MHz memory clock with some undervolting. That also meant 2 or 3 °C more heat.
You may be able to do more with a custom bios for your GPU but I don't know much about that, and never tried it because I consider it too risky.

CPU overclock is possible for 4710HQ. You need Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU) for that, but what I read about laptop overclocking, people mostly use it to undervolt the CPU and cache to reduce the heat it generates because it has even less impact on gaming performance than the GPU OC. You should do this step by step just like GPU OC with stress testing for some 5-10 minutes between the steps. For me, a -70 mV undervolting on both CPU and cache got about 3 °C temperature reducement under stress tests.

Hope I could help.
 
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What did you end up doing with it? I'm currently just running mild +135 core +100 mem without touching fan or voltage. 83-84c, about 2 degrees more than stock.
 
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i went to Asus folder and changed the clock.ini file and also changed some things in VGATOOL

in the clock file i changed top value to 1150 and lower value to 900
in VGATOOL i changed core clock to 1097, mem clock to 2777 and voltage to 900

 
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I know this has been forever but I don't have an Asus and in MSI Afterburner it does not let me change the voltage from .837. Would it be okay to just leave it there? In EVGA Precision it will let me adjust max voltage to around 1.193.

Also, did you do any CPU overclocking/undervolting? I have an I7 4720HQ and am hesitant to do anything with it.
 
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