Keep stock speed or Overclock it

[MAGP]

Hi all,

 

I am the kind of person that likes to keep my stock speed just the way it is. However; when the cpu is not good enough for the new generation games or programs then i oc.

 

Here is my question i bought an old Dell Latitude E6420 with i5 dual core at 2.4ghz with turbo boost. While ocing a laptop may not be the best idea i would like to give it a try even if i have to plug a portable fan to help it keep it cool.  If i OC it to 10% of stock speeds will that affect the turbo boost by causing any conflict with it or will it scale it to its maximum speed when need it.

 

E.G:

stock 2.4, with turbo 2.9ghz.

OC  10% 2.6 <==== will turbo boost still scale it to 2.9 if needed or will it stop working.

 

Thanks for your time.

 

P.D: I have oced only core2duo and core 2 quad cpus and amds.  This would be my first time with i3,i5 and soo on.

[Chris_R.]

If you still have that Dell Latitude, and you haven't formatted it or changed the motherboard, since it is a Dell "Locked Bios" system you may not be able to overclock at all.

 

Check your bios settings to see first before you do anything. Because I have a dell desktop and there is zero options for oc'ing. From what I've heard before Dell locks the bios down pretty hard to prevent overclocking or tampering.

[Lord_Karango17]

Laptops generally have locked down bios' that dont allow for tweaking of the base clock, and multipliers.

 

Gpu overclocking is usually the only thing you can do on laptops.