Overclock MSI laptop through BIOS?

I'm very seriously considering buying a MSI X370. Problem is, it's a mere 1.6 Ghz APU. The graphics I don't care about but I do Photoshop, Virtual Machines and very occasional video encoding. This review shows the E350 getting a lousy 13 fps during x264 encoding and I currently get about 40 from my P8600.

If I can overclock the E350 to 2.2 or even 2.0 Ghz, I'd go for it in a heartbeat. Is there a modded BIOS or other solution that allows this to be done without software?

Thanks in advance.

 

Anyone?

I was under the impression that MSI's laptop BIOS is not nearly as restricted as most other manufacturers. Maybe there is someone here on the forums that does MSI BIOS mods?

 

There is such guy. His nickname is Svet. He used to do such moded BIOSes for GT725 in order to overclock quad core CPUs. Here you are asking for a moded BIOS of netbook that obviously none of us has. And I think that you want too much of 13 inch laptop. Especially when it is not desined to do that.

 

Thank you for the person's name, I'll contact him for further questions. Yet, if a computer was not destined to reach above it's stock clockspeed, then why is overclocking so successful among users?

Are you aware there are 13" laptops out now with 2-3 times the CPU power (and that will increase further when OC'd) as the X370? Sandy Bridge and Arrandale chips in models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, MSI and even Macbooks will run rings around the E350 while still giving decent to very good battery life. The X370 seems like a great little laptop but I'm having a hard time getting past the CPU being such a bottleneck, especially when it's so close in price to significantly more powerful models.

Still, all I'm asking is if it's practical to get it up to around 2 Ghz. No harm in asking, if no one ever asked anything, they'd never learn.