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Normally. Its not even recommended especially in a laptop due to cooling even if it is possible.

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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2 minutes ago, MarcusIsBored said:

My CPU is a (according to Windows) "Intel Core i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz  2.30GHz"

As far as I know that is a locked chip, where intel doesn't allow you to overclock it. You can go into intels XTU and increase the powerlimit, but that is most likely locked by the Manufacturerer.

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2 minutes ago, Mephi00 said:

As far as I know that is a locked chip, where intel doesn't allow you to overclock it. You can go into intels XTU and increase the powerlimit, but that is most likely locked by the Manufacturerer.

Thanks for the info! At least my laptop runs a lot of triple-A games pretty well.

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overclock a laptop is recommended? Either he has watched too many content with flagship inch-thick laptops, or he thought "undervolt" and "overclock" are the same things which I gurantee you, they aren't.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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On 2/19/2020 at 9:05 AM, MarcusIsBored said:

My friend has been recommended if that I overclock my laptop’s CPU. I decided that I want to overclock it, but I don’t know how to. Does anyone know how?

What CPU do you have? Also, the VRMs and the cooling probably weren't made for overclocking and the BIOS probably doesn't support it unless you have a really expensive gaming laptop.

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Here is an Asus Zenbook with the same Intel Core i7-10510U CPU.

https://i.imgur.com/NQHgK5G.png

 

Hitting almost 4.3 GHz on all cores during a full load stress test is incredible for a CPU that has a 15 Watt TDP rating.  These CPUs do not support overclocking but in the right laptop, you can adjust them to increase performance significantly.  

 

On 2/19/2020 at 1:24 AM, Mephi00 said:

You can go into intels XTU and increase the powerlimit

As far as I know, Intel XTU does not support their 10th Gen low power U series CPUs.  

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On 2/19/2020 at 10:03 AM, NZgamer said:

I've never seen an Intel laptop with a K series CPU in it.

Some laptops DO have K chips and can be overclocked some.

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I think the spot where it wanted to set the power limit to about 53 watts was a relic from when I'd had an i3-6100 in the laptop.  I didn't reinstall Windows or XTU when I swapped in the i7-6700K.  Also it won't let me set the multiplier above 35, I have to use the per-core turbo or whatever in the lower part of XTU to overclock.

 

 

On 2/19/2020 at 12:08 AM, NZgamer said:

Most laptop manufacturers disable overclocking in the uefi.

 

On 2/21/2020 at 7:15 AM, ZzLy said:

Also, the VRMs and the cooling probably weren't made for overclocking and the BIOS probably doesn't support it unless you have a really expensive gaming laptop.

Interestingly, mine has NO OC options in the BIOS (and also has the old-style white text on blue background, even though it's a Skylake 6th-generation Z170 chipset).

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On 2/19/2020 at 12:24 AM, Mephi00 said:

You can go into intels XTU and increase the powerlimit, but that is most likely locked by the Manufacturerer.

So, I HAVE to use XTU to overclock my laptop.  My power limit isn't locked, but I don't like setting it much over about 112 to 116 watts or so.

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Idk if I'd be able to "hack" an i9-9900 into my laptop, but I wonder what clock speed it might run at with that power limit, or maybe 105 watts or so... (Am maybe considering it sometime later, also leaning toward the non-K as long as I can at least run all cores at up to the single-core turbo; and if not, limited by temperature not vendor lock.)

 

 

 

On 2/19/2020 at 12:08 AM, Martin2132 said:

Normally. Its not even recommended especially in a laptop due to cooling even if it is possible.

The cooling in my laptop limits me to about 4.5 or 4.6 GHz or so for normal OC.  I can hit 4.7 briefly and sometimes pass a Cinebench run though, but it's straddling a fine (~5-10mV) line between too low voltage for stability vs too-high voltage resulting in thermal throttling.

 

 

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