However, notebook vendors may be able to differentiate their products by providing better cooling, which will allow users to push the chips even higher. Why not just ship all notebooks overclocked to the max? Because of subtle manufacturing differences, two copies of the same model processor may have different maximum overclocked speeds. During a brief demo, the chipmaker turned a laptop with the chip up to 4.2 GHz, using a software utility. Now, with Skylake, Intel is releasing an overclockable Core i7 processor for laptops, the Core i7-6820HK, which is designed to run at up to 3.2 GHz in turbo mode, but can be turned up way beyond that. Overclockable Laptopsįor many years, desktop PC enthusiasts have been able to overclock their CPUs, pushing them to higher speeds than they are specced for, by tweaking some settings. MORE: Laptops With the Longest Battery Life 3. The new GPUs can also drive up to three distinct 4K monitors at once, allowing for quite a productivity setup. Intel also says that its current-generation Intel 500 series graphics chips are fast enough to beat more than 80 percent of discrete graphics cards on the market, making the Intel chips good enough for people who aren't hardcore gamers.
