Overclocking Laptop?

CPU or GPU

be VERY careful with GPU overclocking, a mate ruined a £1600 sli xps laptop this way, there is just a very small margin for additional thermal capacity in the cramped chassis of a laptop
 
Not unless you have a laptop with overclock options available e.g. some of the MSI ones. This is marketed as a special feature so if you don't know about it, you won't have it.

Or you have a 400mhz FSB Pentium M, which can be pinmodded to 533mhz and a nice overclock.

But otherwise no.

Graphics cards can be overclocked but I really wouldn't recommend it as they will die eventually and they are expensive and inconvenient to replace.
 
If you do manage to overclock your laptop, think seriously about cooling.

I had an Alienware Area51 laptop and cooling was a major issue, always is with high performance laptops. Nowhere for the hot air to go!
 
I undervolt my laptop :) knocked a good chunk off temperatures and the battery life is increased a tad as well.
 
I tried Folding on my laptop. It nearly melted, I'm not going to even try overclocking it. :D
 
Netbooks such as the Asus EEEpcs seem to fair pretty well the 701 4g surf hits around 1.1Ghz from 900mhz.

The Eeepc 701SD im using can be clocked upto 960mhz with the asus software and under folding hits around 65-69 degrees.
 
Perhaps you could overclock a laptop when the 32nm cpu's are out on them...but the manufacturers will just use the 32nm to their advantage by having a thinner laptop so overclocking will probably cause heat issues still.
 
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