okay so have a great tweak here for people that really want to push and get
maximum performance out of their eighth generation Core i5 i7 and 8250 and the
8550 you CPUs you can push them to perform just like the core i7 seven
thousand seven and at HQ now this is a quad core 45 watt processor that is
typically found in gaming laptops so it's quite a feat here that we're able
to get now this particular CPU which has 15 watts to perform all that kind of
speed there so the maximum turbo of the CPU that I have here the i5 8250 is four
point sorry three point four gigahertz now in order to do this little tweak
here we need to download Intel's Xtreme tuning utility so download that
install it then reboot your system once you have rebooted open it up and go
over to the advanced tuning the core panel here and there's a couple of
settings here we want to change the order to get the maximum benefit out of
the CPU to really push it hard so go long to the turbo max power here
now by default this will be on 15 that's the default stock setting so you want to
increase this to something like 35 or even 40 watts here's what I'm going to
go with so this in turn will what it allows the CPU to do is consume more
power hold those turbos at 3.4 on all 4 cores for as long as it wants this is
how it can perform just like the i7 7700 HQ so we go up to the core voltage
offset this can also be set to - point one volts so this is under volting it to
help lower temperatures a little bit it will also probably help out with better
life - slightly now mileage will vary on this particular setting some CPUs can
only go to point zero 9 others could do 0.1 1/5 if you get a blue screen you
have under vaulted too much so just tone it back on that so apply that
and now you can see that what in turn happens is it's holding that boost you
can see here this is a previous test that I did holding those cause at the
three point four and the cooling at least on this particular laptop which is
charmese me notebook pro didn't go over 60 degrees with my ambient temperatures
here of 25 degrees Celsius so impressive results this is great this is amazing
this means I can encode my 4k videos so much faster now the benefit of how fast
this is really well I did a few benchmarks to get a gauge on just what
kind of performance we're seeing so running Cinebench r15 I got a score here
of 571 C B okay that's not too bad considering the type of processor but
it's not really that impressive now with that TBD increase to 40 watts
it's gone all the way up to 736 which is a massive 29 percent boost there and
that actually got a better score than my gaming laptop with the i7 7000 HQ so
really good results on that but we can also go step further and overclock the
GPU so this model has the NVIDIA MX 150 and what I've done here is add one
gigahertz to the RAM now you're probably thinking that's a huge amount to add to
the round but they tend to underclock the RAM to the speak of the RAM they can
actually perform a lot faster but it's they do that for battery saving so what
I'm gonna do here is just add that and I've tested it out there are zero
artifacts when gaming and pushing it hard I don't see any glitches or
anything so that's a safe setting and you can also tweak up the core clock
here of only put 60 you can put up to 61 100 even but you don't really get much
benefit from that at all so that in turn boost performance and I ran some tests
here again so this is the stock score of heaven five hundred and eighty seven and
now once that was overclocked the GPU and the CPU as well it is now seven
hundred and seventy which is not an amazing score this is not a gaming
laptop but even so that went up around 31 percent boost
there which is really impressive to now in another benchmark this is fire strike
stock score 2916 then with a boost with the overclocking
it goes up to three thousand three hundred sixty four so that's only a 15
percent increase on that one so not so impressive now the other thing you can
do is in the Nvidia control panel is make sure you set the power management
mode here to maximum performance that will ensure you're going to get the
maximum power use out of the GPU even when you're not on power so it perform
on battery just like it was on power giving you maximum frames per seconds
another recommendation there so here we go with those settings there we can get
the CPU to perform really impressively as good as that i7 7700 HK which is to
me that is pretty amazing and there seems to be really no negative impact on
this at least on my model the cooling can handle it which is great but if
you're gaming with that tweak I'm not too sure you probably shouldn't do that
tweak when gaming at the same time then it will get pretty hot but just keep an
eye on thermals so your mileage will vary from unit to unit different laptops
as well like the Dalton's burns that have the same CPU thank you so much for
watching this video here and best of luck with your under volting adding more
wattage to the T the P setting and overclocking your GPU now we'll be back
with more videos on the me notebook Pro here I'll have a gaming review coming up
also my full review I'll test out video editing 4k video editing and encoding
and many other things including battery life and all that so I hope to see you
back then bye for now