Can you overclock Laptop i7 6500U CPU

[diddies]

What is the best way to overclock a CPU or even can I? I have downloaded the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to attempt to do it but it won't let me. I have an HP Envy with an i7 6500U with a Intel HD Graphics 520 as well as the Nivida Geforce 940M. The cpu runs at 2.5.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Gam3r01]

No, and nor would you want to.
Its a 15w processor, your laptop will not be able to handle the heat nor voltage.

 

[Solidboss7]

@Gam3r01 please don't jump to the conclusion of "no" immediately just because you read on the internet it's bad to overclock laptop CPU's. It is so far from the truth. I've overclocked my I7 4710HQ 2.5GHz that turbo boosts to 3.5GHz to a steady 3.7GHz for over a year now and haven't had a single problem. I've also gained about 5-10fps on average by doing so in Tge majority of games I own(over 150)

To the OP - there may be a setting in your BIOS (hitting F12 at startup to get into these settings) that has to be changed from no to yes in order to get the frequency bars not to be greyed out in Extreme Tuning Utility

 

[Gam3r01]

An "HQ" series processor is much different than a "U" series. Your processor has over triple the TDP of the 6500U, so a slight increase in power consumption and heat would not register nearly as much on the system.

 

[Solidboss7]

An "HQ" series processor is much different than a "U" series. Your processor has over triple the TDP of the 6500U, so a slight increase in power consumption and heat would not register nearly as much on the system.

This u series (skylake dual core) CPU can already turbo boost to 3.1GHz with one core in use and up to 3.0GHz with both cores in use, which in turn means he could set clock speeds manually to at most 3.1GHz and be fine. It is highly unlikely that he would experience anything out of the norm in doing so and might gain a small performance boost in some instances. This specific processor can and has been overclocked.

 

[Gam3r01]

Setting clock speeds to turbo levels is not overclocking.

 

[Solidboss7]

Setting clock speeds to turbo levels is not overclocking.

Setting clock speeds to turbo levels on an Intel CPU is definitely overclocking. If you have 2 cores running at 3.5GHz while those two are the only active cores and then when the other two cores are active they all drop to 3.3GHz, then setting clock speeds to run at 3.5GHz on all 4 cores instead of 3.3GHz you in turn have overclocked your CPU and will get better performance. Now typically there is a little extra leeway so that even though your CPU is only rated at max turbo boost of 3.5GHz, you can actually overclock it to 3.7GHz first core, 3.6GHz with two cores active, and 3.5GHz with 4 cores active. Turbo boost is not always going to be active so if you manually set your clock speeds to constantly stay at what they'd be at if turbo boosted then you've overclocked your CPU. Pretty easy concept to grab. Actually, call it whatever you want, at the end of the day the goal is improved performance and that is what we are talking about here. This can easily be shown on my Firestrike scores that were substantially increased after doing what I have described in this thread, and have also shown through while gaming.

I read over and over and over and over again in many different forums that my CPU shouldn't be overclocked and overclocking CPU's in laptops is bad because temps...blah blah blah....I and many others have proven otherwise. I'm not saying the performance gains if this guy overclocked his CPU are going to be as noticeable as mine, but it wouldn't hurt to try and see if it's worth it. If it's not than its about 5 seconds to revert the changes....