I have a Ryzen 7 7700HQ with turbo boost and all cores running at 3.8 gigahertz, right?
I have a Ryzen 7 7700HQ with turbo boost and all cores running at 3.8 gigahertz, right?
hi, I was wondering if it's safe to turn the turbo on for my Intel i7-7700hq and set all cores to 3.8ghz. i know there are risks and i have plenty of cooling space. i tried using throttle stop to raise the limit to 38gigahertz, but it still only lets me get to about 3.4ghz. why isn't that working? anyone else know how to fix this or other ways to do it? also, my laptop is a Lenovo Legion Y520 with an NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti and 16gb of RAM (i can't attach the picture so i'm just typing). please help! thanks in advance
As much as the motherboard and BIOS let, there isn't much of that to say. It doesn't matter what you want; it's only what the system allows. There are no switches to unlock every core for turbo mode. If there is no switch on, nothing can be turned on. You might think about traveling around the world. Some people believe walking everywhere makes life better for everyone, even if your body isn't built for it. But if you lack legs, then anything else doesn't matter. Similarly, if you cannot swim to cross oceans or reach places, those dreams are useless too. If there is nothing in the BIOS that permits all core locked turbo settings, then your desires remain pointless. The 7700HQ is a CPU that cannot be unlocked. Your Lenovo Legion Y520's motherboard does not support overclocking.
I'm thinking about giving up on you because of these reasons. Heat, power caps, a locked core CPU, and a locked BIOS motherboard. You can turbo boost to 1 core at 3.8GHz, 2 cores at 3.7GHz, 3 cores at 3.5GHz, and all 4 at 3.4GHz. This is done so you don't overheat the laptop or burn up the battery from too much power draw. You have a laptop that is already pushing its limits for heat management. OC won't give you many gains and will only make more heat and problems. My advice, leave it alone.
Yes, I know it, but I really want to try it too. Could you give me some advice or help?
You miss the mark. What you want to do and what your computer actually allows is two separate things. The laptop stops you from running an all-core turbo because it protects itself from intentional harm. It is just a laptop, so there isn't any room for extra heat. You think you have headroom because of how many apps you run, but the laptop only looks at the worst case and says no, not even close. Try running Prime95 with small FFTs and AVX turned off instead. That puts 100% CPU load in a flat scenario. Even then, if it survives that test, maybe you have some headroom, but it is really doubtful without overheating eventually.
As much as the motherboard/bios will allow, which is next to nothing. It doesn't matter what YOU want, it's what the bios allows. There are no switches to allow all core turbo, if there's no switch then there's nothing to turn on. You might want to walk around the world. It might be your right to walk around the world, everybody might agree that it's better for humanity that you walk around the world, but if you have no legs, then what you want doesn't matter. If you cannot walk on water to cross oceans then what you want doesn't matter. If there's nothing in the bios to allow all core locked turbo settings, then what you want doesn't matter. 7700HQ is a LOCKED cpu. The motherboard in your Lenovo Legion Y520 does NOT support OC. The Bios on that motherboard is LOCKED and does NOT support OC. Throttle Stop failed because the laptop will NOT allow OC settings. So wanting OC and getting OC is 2 entirely different things. You can lock all cores a 3.4GHz with Throttle Stop, because that is NOT OC. You can lock all cores at 2.6GHz, because that is NOT OC. You cannot lock all cores at 3.8GHz because that IS OC. As far as I know, you can undervolt the cpu to increase boost performance, which will raise fps, and you can OC the gpu through Afterburner but the cpu locked core OC is fail.