Intel to launch unlocked Skylake-K processors for laptops

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MSI, ASUS and EVGA Skylake-K overclocking laptops were shown off at IDF 2015.

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It's a interesting concept i think there would be diminishing returns. I think overall for skylake SKU's your better off with using the turbo boost as and when needed. Overclocking is best left for Desktop CPU's just my opinion. But it be interesting to see what they come out with later this year

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Originally Posted by NitrousX

It's a interesting concept i think there would be diminishing returns. I think overall for skylake SKU's your better off with using the turbo boost as and when needed. Overclocking is best left for Desktop CPU's just my opinion. But it be interesting to see what they come out with later this year

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That said some 900M series gpus on laptops are capable of overclocking much but that's going to make your laptop into a time bomb

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Originally Posted by NitrousX

It's a interesting concept i think there would be diminishing returns. I think overall for skylake SKU's your better off with using the turbo boost as and when needed. Overclocking is best left for Desktop CPU's just my opinion. But it be interesting to see what they come out with later this year

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while you might not want to push 5Ghz, you could give yourself a couple hundred and probably even lower voltage at the same time, as long as they aren't priced at a ridiculous premium it should be fun to play with. I just wish someone would figure out a better cooling solution.

Aren't the Unlocked mobile variants of Intels i7 CPU's just the MX versions? because I have seen vendors provide options for overclocking the i7-4930MX CPU in laptops

Could they rig up a standard cooler with some kind of integrated peltier cooler attached to a heat pipe leading onto a transfer plate on the chassis? That plate could be cooled externally using a suitable docking station. That could perhaps permit greater heat transfer (and therefore OC) for a docked state, throttling back when undocked and on the move.

Maybe not though, lots of heat transfer interfaces in there - might not be responsive enough. And IIRC Peltier gobbles energy too, so definitely not one to try on batteries.

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Originally Posted by NitrousX

It's a interesting concept i think there would be diminishing returns. I think overall for skylake SKU's your better off with using the turbo boost as and when needed. Overclocking is best left for Desktop CPU's just my opinion. But it be interesting to see what they come out with later this year

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while you might not want to push 5Ghz, you could give yourself a couple hundred and probably even lower voltage at the same time, as long as they aren't priced at a ridiculous premium it should be fun to play with. I just wish someone would figure out a better cooling solution.

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I doubt you could push 5Ghz even if you wanted to, most Skylake samples so far can't do 5Ghz even on a desktop with water-cooling.

Intel if you read this no one cares. Who overclocks a laptop?

Give me the chip on a MATX board with a couple of gigabit network ports, ECC RAM support and USB 3.1c.