Laptop Overclock Problems?

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My friend has a HP Envy 15 x360 and we want a bit more juice. We only want to overclock the graphics MHz. The stock graphics is 1000MHz with x11 ratio. We tried to do 15x @ 0.18 Voltage boost but it crashed upon opening a game. Is there just not enough voltage?
 
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While it may be that you're drawing too much current from the motherboard, I'd be more concerned with how much thermal headroom you have. Getting around HP's BIOS to overclock isn't too difficult (some software can do that) but finding a way to cool overclocked components (that barely stay cool at stock clocks) seems to be the biggest problem. Check your temps, I'd figure that's the problem. Overheated components will reduce their life expectancy dramatically.
While it may be that you're drawing too much current from the motherboard, I'd be more concerned with how much thermal headroom you have. Getting around HP's BIOS to overclock isn't too difficult (some software can do that) but finding a way to cool overclocked components (that barely stay cool at stock clocks) seems to be the biggest problem. Check your temps, I'd figure that's the problem. Overheated components will reduce their life expectancy dramatically.
 
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