How do you overclock the CPU or gpu in a laptop

[Legolessed]

Is it possible to overclock the CPU in the dell latitude e6430? I also was wondering if there was a way to overclock the intel HD 4000 graphics.

[Megah3rtz]

You don't overclock laptops. The heating is usually already very poor and overclocking just makes things worse. 

[Legolessed]

1 minute ago, Megah3rtz said:

You don't overclock laptops. The heating is usually already very poor and overclocking just makes things worse. 

Ok. What about overclocking the intel he 4000 graphics?

[Granular]

The multiplier is definitely locked. You can maybe bump the base clock a bit, but the gains would be marginal and stability would suffer.

[Megah3rtz]

1 minute ago, Legolessed said:

Ok. What about overclocking the intel he 4000 graphics?

 

3 minutes ago, Megah3rtz said:

You don't overclock laptops

 

[Joseph Hartness]

5 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

Is it possible to overclock the CPU in the dell latitude e6430? I also was wondering if there was a way to overclock the intel HD 4000 graphics.

Not recommended, you can damage your components, not to mention you could get a blue screen.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

Ok. What about overclocking the intel he 4000 graphics?

Can you even oc an igpu?

[Mira Yurizaki]

I don't believe Dell even lets you touch the clocks in their BIOS.

 

OP, I know you've been wanting to stretch out the performance of your laptop, but a laptop is a closed system (especially from a major system builder) and you can do very little upgrading or improvements to it. I don't know what your story is with it, but if you just bought it recently, you're going to have to live with the fact you bought a business oriented machine that's more or less a potato for gaming.

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Can you even oc an igpu?

Yep, but dependw on board and chip. 

[Emberstone]

To reiterate what others have said, you can't/shouldn't overclock anything in a laptop unless it is an enthusiast device with an HK processor and has adequate cooling. Usually these will come with their own overclocking software or pre-determined overclock profiles specially configured for the laptop in question. You would know if you had something like this, because it likely would've cost you over $2000.

 

The cooling systems in laptops are often designed specifically for the exact hardware and configuration installed. You shouldn't mess with it if you value the life of your device.

[aisle9]

10 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

Is it possible to overclock the CPU in the dell latitude e6430? I also was wondering if there was a way to overclock the intel HD 4000 graphics.

There are a very, very, very few overclockable laptop CPUs out there, maybe just one, and I've only even heard of one laptop built around one. Basically, overclocking a laptop is an awful idea. Their cooling is terrible for the most part, and I can almost assure you that the cooling on your Latitude falls into that category.

 

I believe you can overclock the HD 4000 iGPU with XTU, but I do recall several testers who'd tried it saying that it was a terrible idea, with a high voltage draw, lots of excess heat and stability issues in exchange for an extra 3-4 FPS. If you really want to cook your system's guts in exchange for a few frames that mean jack spit when your system is only pulling down 20 FPS anyway, be my guest.

[Legolessed]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yep, but dependw on board and chip. 

An i5 3340m

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

An i5 3340m

If suggest getting a quad core or i7 for that system I'd you want a fast we cpu. If you can a faster gpu get the version of the board with a dgpu. 

[Legolessed]

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

If suggest getting a quad core or i7 for that system I'd you want a fast we cpu. If you can a faster gpu get the version of the board with a dgpu. 

The reason I want to overclock is I play terratech and the main thing that increases performnce is single core speed and your graphics card

[Legolessed]

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I don't believe Dell even lets you touch the clocks in their BIOS.

 

OP, I know you've been wanting to stretch out the performance of your laptop, but a laptop is a closed system (especially from a major system builder) and you can do very little upgrading or improvements to it. I don't know what your story is with it, but if you just bought it recently, you're going to have to live with the fact you bought a business oriented machine that's more or less a potato for gaming.

I bought it over a year ago for $100. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

27 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

I bought it over a year ago for $100. 

Still, it doesn't change the fact it's a business oriented laptop that was not meant for gaming in the first place.

[Legolessed]

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Still, it doesn't change the fact it's a business oriented laptop that was not meant for gaming in the first place.

Of course it wasn't built for gaming. Gaming laptops are a waste of money. I was just going to do this as a fun project. 

[Mns7]

You can oc both, cpu and integrated gpu. You need bootloader and usb (rufus) to unlock hidden bios options and change that. I successfully oc my dell e6430 i7-3720qm processor to 4ghz turbo, from 3.6ghz. Keep in mind, i have cooling mod from copper small heatsinks, what are attached to my main cpu heatsink and cooling pad without under-lid. To avoid bsod and other crashes or oc ever further then 4ghz, you also need power brick "overclock" (at least 5 % oc). This maintain regular and higher voltage (it's not harmfull to system, i'm using power oc for about 2 years). I'm gaming on this pc using egpu (gtx 1060) so i have disabled dgpu and igpu, but using the same usb with bootloader, you can achieve igpu (hd 4000) 40% oc.