Overclocking an AMD-based laptop

[nj4ck]

Hey guys, I've recently purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E145 (very tight budget) for university-stuff. It hasn't arrived yet, and I'm already worried about the tiny little AMD E1-2500 CPU it sports.

Its a dual-core 1.4 GHz chip and while I think it should be easily enough for office, pdf, web browsing and creating presentations, I'm wondering if I could tickle a little more power out of it. I already bought a SanDisk SSD to swap out the original HDD with, but now I've been reading about people actually overclocking these CPUs. 

 

The overclock is software based and uses a tool called K10STAT. I've never done software-based OCing before, so I'm wondering, is this the type of overclock that only runs when the software is running, or does it actually alter the bios? I need the laptop to work, so I'm obviously not going to be stupid and let it zap itself into a fiery grave at 5GHz, I just want maybe 300-500 more MHz, depending on temperatures and power consumption. I also don't want to be altering any voltage settings, just see how far it goes at stock voltage.

What do you think, how risky is this? Does K10STAT alter the BIOS or force-apply the OC at windows startup?

 

I'd be happy to hear some opinions/experiences.

[lx_srs]

Friend of mine did a tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp_scVC0Gxg

 

@nj4ck Ask him in the comments, he'd love to help.

[Johannes_Lazor]

Most laptops have a locked BIOS so it is hard to overclock them without a code from lenovo in your case.

Overclocking through a third party software may be a bit risky.

Laptops dont have much thermal headroom so if you are gonna overclock it you should clock down the "CPU" and clock the "GPU" up if you are doing a overclock.

[nj4ck]

Friend of mine did a tutorial:

 

 

@nj4ck Ask him in the comments, he'd love to help.

Thanks, that should be helpful. 

[nj4ck]

Most laptops have a locked BIOS so it is hard to overclock them without a code from lenovo in your case.

Overclocking through a third party software may be a bit risky.

Laptops dont have much thermal headroom so if you are gonna overclock it you should clock down the "CPU" and clock the "GPU" up if you are doing a overclock.

Well, I will go through standard overclocking procedure, so of course I'll be working my way up in small steps and constantly stress testing and monitoring temps. I'm aware that I don't have much headroom, but since I'm not increasing voltages it shouldn't be too bad, I assume. And why would I OC the GPU, I want the laptop to be faster at office and browsing stuff, I'm not really interested in gaming on this device. As long as the GPU can handle 1080p video, I'm fine.

[harrynowl]

I could overclock my Dad's Lenovo with an A8 4500M using AMD overdrive.

[nj4ck]

I could overclock my Dad's Lenovo with an A8 4500M using AMD overdrive.

no sh*t? I thought that was just for GPUs... I guess I'll give it a try.

[harrynowl]

no sh*t? I thought that was just for GPUs... I guess I'll give it a try.

I got 2.4GHz from it from 1.9 or so, and an extra 190mhz on the gpu.

 

This is the actual application and not the thing in catalyst.

[Equlix]

Don't oc laptops.

It's just a bad idea.

[harrynowl]

Don't oc laptops.

It's just a bad idea.

without touching vcore it's fine