Can't overclock GPU with MSI Afterburner

[Outrun1986]

I want to overclock my Radeon but all the sliders except core clock and memory clock is grayed out.

And even worse, I can't even move the core/memory clock sliders. If i type in a new value for it no matter what, it will just reset back to 0.

I have the latest graphics drivers, my card is still supported by AMD, and MSI Afterburner detects it. So this is not your average "your graphics card is just outdated blablabla" issue.

I've only posted here because Tom's Hardware doesn't really help and I would like help from an alive community, not dead from like 2013 or something.

Screenshot: http://prntscr.com/i8z2hh

[Arya]

I'm sorry, but that isn't going to work.

That's a notebook GPU. Even if you could overclock it(I'm skeptical) you wouldn't get any benefit. There isn't enough Cooling Margin for a decent overclock, and there isn't enough power to get a good yield.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Wolfie님이 먼저 게시:

I'm sorry, but that isn't going to work.

That's a notebook GPU. Even if you could overclock it(I'm skeptical) you wouldn't get any benefit. There isn't enough Cooling Margin for a decent overclock, and there isn't enough power to get a good yield.

^This.

Never want to overclock on laptops in general, because most were designed a certain way for cooling, and trying to overclock will increase the heat generated, and if it gets too hot it will force shutdown to protect itself, or it will damage itself becoming useless, which is why most manufacturers make sure overclocking is disable to pervert users from trying to overclock.

Even if someone had a laptop that allow them to overclock they will experience issues such as sudden shutdown, system throttling, performance issues, or etc...

[xSOSxHawkens]

Wolfie님이 먼저 게시:

I'm sorry, but that isn't going to work.

That's a notebook GPU. Even if you could overclock it(I'm skeptical) you wouldn't get any benefit. There isn't enough Cooling Margin for a decent overclock, and there isn't enough power to get a good yield.

Notebook GPU's can be overclocked, and with some systems it has little impact on heat and a signifigant impact on performance.

My travel gaming rig is an old Asus ROG G73SW with Nvidia GTX-460m graphics and I can use Afterrburner to overclock it from 650Mhz core to 900Mhz core without issues for most games, and 850 core without issues at all for any games or applications. Memory see similar substantial overclocks.

In games it offers between 30 and 100% imptorvement, depending on title, and makes the system *just* powerfull enough with the OC to play BF1 @ native 1600*900 without too many issues at all.

As for heat, on my system it raises core temps by ~10c for max OC, and sees load temps in the low 80's instead of low 70's, all of which is fine for a 400 series chip. It is worth noting however that my specific laptop has pretty decent cooling, with physically seperated heatpipe and fin assembelies for CPU and GPU, with each venting independent of the other on opisote sides of the system.



As for the OP, have you checked to see if WattMan is available in the defualt radeon drivers? Afterburner will work with Radeon cards, but its a bit limmited on them normally, even on the desktop platform. You might try other third party overclocking tools, though I am not sure what ones are out there anymore, specialy for third party AMD besids afterburner.

You might try what this guy recomends in post two, though it requires a bit of registry edditing...

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2728756/amd-radeon-m265-overclocking.html

[Big Boom Boom]

Some notebook GPU has bios locked, it's normal.

Tom's hardware is a lot more active than Steam. Their moderators are more active and give answers from times to times.