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Any chance it could be overclocked?
Maybe. I can find that out. I'm not too knowledgeable about hardware components.
If you have any helpful guides on how to resolve this, it'd be tremendously appreciated.
If it's an all in one chances are that overclocking is not enabled in the OEM bios. What brand and model is it? You might be able to get a cheap 1L PC for under $200 on Amazon refurbished, like a Thinkcentre tiny is one of my favorites. I haven't looked in a few but it might be worth a look if you could borrow enough until first payday.
It is an HP All-in-One 24-dd0xxx
Hmmm... I checked this UserBenchmark for what CPU might be in it, non of the listed are 1.65GHz (and of the i3 that is listed, it has a boost of up to 3.40 GHz). What CPU do you have in it?
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Update: Through some power settings, I manage to bump up the processor speed. I reached back out to the recruiter to see if we can proceed. I will let you all know how this goes.
good luck
Good to hear. I would like to subscribe to updates to this ongoing issue. I'm willing to bet that the computer nerds of the fediverse can figure something out. If the CPU is thermal throttling a big fan pointed at the machine can help too!
Can you check what the actual CPU model is? All but one of the processors listed for your model have a base clock at or above 2GHz, and all of them have a boost clock well above 3GHz.
Laptops have low base frequency, even intel cpus released in 2026 have base clocks sitting around 2GHz. They can temporarily reach higher clock speeds (boost or turbo) when they need more performance, which means the base clock speed can be lower.
afaik a 400 mhz bump is totally doable. Without a decent cooler it’s not a long term solution but hopefully you can just spoof the spec check or work the job long enough to afford an upgrade.
As far as steps go it depends on what bios (motherboard) and cpu you have.