I have an i5 clocked at 1.6Ghz, anyway to get it up to at least 2.6?
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I'm guessing it's in a laptop, in which case I'm not aware of any as they are probably locked when it comes to OC capabilities... and it'd surely overheat if it was clocked at 2.6GHz. There's a reason the base speeds of ultrabook CPUs are below 2GHz and they only turbo to 2.5-3GHz for single-core applications.
SchizTech
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Besides that Hiebson says, the i5 (desktop or laptop) has a "Turbo Boost" feature which will bump up the clock speed to higher than the base speed depending on load and temperature. With current generation chips the Turbo boost is tuned pretty aggressively; if this the i5-4200U that has a turbo boost of 2.6GHz IIRC.
dextermat
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Hi,
+1 hiebson, even if you could overclock it in a laptop, you would just be asking for trouble.
If it's a desktop cpu, if it doesn't have a "k" then you cannot overclock it.
Also, because it's frequency is low, I doubt you could hit 3 ghz with it anyway. Would be better just to buy a new one.
+1 hiebson, even if you could overclock it in a laptop, you would just be asking for trouble.
If it's a desktop cpu, if it doesn't have a "k" then you cannot overclock it.
Also, because it's frequency is low, I doubt you could hit 3 ghz with it anyway. Would be better just to buy a new one.
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