i7-4700MQ Overclock Help

[chidoughboy]

I have prema bios v2 on sager p150sm. Anyone with an i7 4700mq have any stable numbers they use for overclocking the CPU. It seems the general consensus around here is to use Intel XTU to overclock the CPU and to not do it in the bios.

[Spellbound]

I believe the 4700MQ is limited to 200Mhz OC.

As for the voltage it will be different on every CPU. Use trial and error to figure out the voltage for your CPU.

[MrAngry]

Most likely you'll run into temperature and then power delivery problems long before being unable to run OC'd with stability.

BIOS overclocking depends on the BIOS, whether it has all the options you need and/or can recover easily when bad settings are used.

Software overclocking is temporary and good for experimenting but may not be able to offer all the features a BIOS could.

XTU is fine if your looking at an extra 2 bins and maybe some bclk for a ~300MHz increase but not suitable for running higher bins.