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03-30-2019 03:59 AM
Sorry but you dont overclock a laptop processor. They are not designed to handle the heat increase like a desktop is, with rare exceptions.
Your model has an Intel® Core™ i7-8550U cpu. Those cpu's are locked by Intel. Not overclockable.
03-30-2019 04:23 AM - edited 03-30-2019 04:30 AM
Hello.
1. For the CPU, forget it. Only way to make it go faster is to keep it up on it's turbo boost longer. That you can only achive with better cooling. See if you can force the fan(s) manually.
2. For the GPU, Nvidia i am sure has an overclocking program where you can alter the speed up. but again, cooling is of essense or the GPU will throttle/burn up.
3, The hard drive, if you're on a mechanical one, throw it away for an SSD one, this is the most performance gain you will get, on the whole, not in games or FPS...
4. The RAM, if you have one module installed, install a second one of the same value, that will give a 10-30% boost on the CPU and GPU.
Besides the hard drive and RAM, all written above will most likely DESTROY your laptop.
03-30-2019 04:29 AM
Can you be more specific as to why or what you are doing that you need more cpu performance?
Are you trying to game or such and need more fps? You cannot manually increase the cpu speed.
Its also not designed to handle graphics card overclocking either. Again, laptops are not designed for this.
You can increase your overall performance that model can give with upgrading to an M.2 drive. It will boot Windows faster and programs will load quicker.
You already discussed that here... https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Upgrading-Questions/m-p/707139...
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