Is my friend right about his point at overclocking in laptops?

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So I recently overclocked my laptop using MSI Burner and usually the tempreture rises 60C-70C while playing games, (But with no games it is at 50c - 54C) however, he told me that you cannot overclock your laptop. and that it's a fake overclock, and told me it just burns your laptop from inside, I told him that shouldn't the gpu get damaged only if the tempreture is like 85C-100C he told me it's 60-70C for laptops, Basicly he is saying:
1-Overclocking in laptops is not a real overclocking
2-It can burn your laptop at 60C-70C

Is this actually true?
 

Brandon-

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You can overclock a laptop but you will get about a 5% increase in performance... you shouldn't overclock it, there are too many risks of overheating and frying the GPU or any other components near it. Laptops are usually already overclocked.
 

mike1996

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this is a very flexible topic i will explain as i go
1-it is a real over clock
2-depends on the laptop some may melt and burn other components at high temp and i would not recommend over clocking it
2 continued-you mentioned gpus only get damaged at a certain temp this is not inherently true. Basically silicon is a semi conductor and the more volts and higher temp you stress it with the faster the semi conductor stop being a semi conductor and becomes a conductor witch kills the chip.

its really about what you are comfortable with the higher temps and volts the short life it will have
 

mike1996

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most laptops are actually under-clocked compared to there desktop counter parts
 

Brandon-

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Weird, was reading an article where they are usually overclocked in the store before sold, makes sense though that they get underclocked to decrease temperatures.
 

Brandon-

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"fake overclock" hah.
 

Seemly

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The highest i ever got was 73C. that's after 1.5 hour of playing gta v

 

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Yea but I wouldn't expect 5 years of gaming even without overclock since the gpu is a medium-high end gpu. that's the reason i overclocked.
 

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Just tell me things i should be aware off and i will be fine