Can I overclock integrated graphics?

[flya00]

My PC specs are:
Intel Core i5-4200U
Intel HD Graphics 4400
8GB RAM
750GB HDD
My pc is a Dell Inspirion 17R 7737.

[Jeremy]

Er.. No. Even if you could it wouldnt do much. If you want to game on a pc, best bet is to build your own.

[Arya]

I'm afraid not. As Roach said, even if you could overclock it would make virtually no tangible difference to performance. Integrated Graphics just suck.

[Cathulhu]

Even if you could, overclocking a turd will only make it a tiny bit faster turd.
Laptops do not have OC potential anyway. They already have cooling issues without OC, with OC you may encounter less performance due to thermal throttling.

[vadim]

You need to check whether do you have 2 DIMMs in your laptop or 1. IGP gains a lot from dual-channel mode. Much more than from any possible overclocking.

[Arya]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Even if you could, overclocking a turd will only make it a tiny bit faster turd.
Laptops do not have OC potential anyway. They already have cooling issues without OC, with OC you may encounter less performance due to thermal throttling.

Right. Overclocking extracts extra power from your existing parts, and you rarely get more than a few percent improvement. Overclocking something like an Integrated Graphics chip would be pointless, there's such little power to start with that even a mechanically-impossible 100% overclock + liquid nitrogen kit would still be disastrously underpowered for gaming.

[Nyarlathotep]

OMG NO! That's your motherboard the thing is soldered to! No air, no water, no way! Overclock the CPU before you do that, at least you can monitor that temp. Wait, this a laptop? Don't do anything, besides RAM upgrade and SSD.

[flya00]

Okay

I am building a PC soon.
I'll just overclock my gpu with MSI Afterburner.

[Mossy Snake]

Originally posted by flya00:

I am building a PC soon.
I'll just overclock my gpu with MSI Afterburner.

You're actually going to attempt it?

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[-=SOF=-WID99]

umm you do not have a GPU.... your vid chip its built on to your CPU

Intel HD Graphics 4400

.. so yea overclocking it = add heat to the CPU and possibly fry it ..so wave bye bye to your PC and your files when yea hear the lil pop (if it makes one ) and the stinky smell a cpu makes when it frys ..but it'll probably throttle quite a bit before that point , and blue screen or lock up .. by then the damage will be done , and no Dell will not fix it under warranty

[Jeremy]

Please dont try it man. Youre going to tear a hole in space and time.

[flya00]

Okie Dokie

[flya00]

How about overclocking a Radeon HD 7500M it is also in a laptop and it is not integrated, though that PC burns my hands when I pick it up after 30 minutes of being active.

[Areso]

Just buy a Tower-PC with true discrete graphics. Even aged 750 Ti will be much better all of those above.