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Yes, definitely! Your laptop is generally constrained by how much heat it can push through the heat sink. If you get "lucky" you have a CPU that can remain stable at lower voltages. So it's effectively the same as an "overclock" because your laptop can turbo the core speed up for longer (or forever). Your laptop rarely runs at maximum turbo all day. It can only do that for a few hundred ms usually. It'll basically just hold the clock speed at whatever it can before hitting some specific temp (85-95c). When you undervolt, the frequency that it can "hold" at that temp threshold is higher.
parent freeqaz 6 years ago

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