Hi there, I was wondering if it would be safe to OC my laptop, as I have an HP Envy Laptop? I hope I’m posting in the proper forum. Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA.
System Spec:
Ram 16GB DDR4-2933 SDRAM
Geforce RTX 2060
i7 10750H @2.60GHZ-5GHZ
Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 512GB
Am I missing anything?
Overclocking laptops is a pain as you hit thermal throttling before the overclocking even helps. I wouldn’t bother.
There are ways to avoid thermal throttling such as adjusting core voltages but in my experience, I have gotten little performance gains vs the effort to find stable settings.
To add to what @wizhippo said, cooling in laptops is notoriously bad. I wouldn’t chance overclocking one.
If anything, give undervolting a go. Not sure if you’d be able to do it with your CPU after some Intel patches, but give it a go with Intel XTU anyway. For the GPU you could use MSI afterburner to undervolt. This usually lowers temps so that the CPU and GPU can boost higher and give a few extra fps at the same temps. A word of warning though, overclocking and undervolting will most likely void any sort of warranties on the laptop