Overclocking and Undervolting my 5060 HP Omen 16 Laptop?
I have an HP OMEN 16-AM0353TX with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU and Intel Core Ultra 7 255H I’m trying to understand how people are tuning these laptops.
Right now I keep it in Balanced mode in OMEN Gaming Hub because Performance mode pushes my CPU temps way up. In Balanced the CPU sits around ~82°C while gaming, but in Performance it jumps to 90–100°C, which I’m not a fan of. What confuses me is that I notice very little performance difference between the two modes, just higher temps.
A few things I’m also unsure about:
- Should I keep OMEN Gaming Hub installed, will this mess up my power options if I remove it?
- Should I be undervolting or overclocking, and would that actually help CPU temps?
- If I undervolt, does that stay applied after restart, or do I have to set it every time?
- If I use the laptop for other things like Photoshop or normal work, do I leave the undervolt on or turn it off?
- Which apps do I get?
- Is it always trial and error with these sorts of things or is there a guide for my setup that you know of or could assist with?
I mostly play Arena Breakout, Arma, BF6 and online sort of games! Getting around 60fps on low settings, sometimes pushing to 90 but it often dips and stutters.
The screen is 2560×1600, but I actually run Windows at 1080p because most games don’t run great at the full resolution. I’ve tried DLSS as well but it never seems to make a huge difference.
Ideally I’d just like lower CPU temps without losing performance, so I’m trying to understand whether undervolting or overclocking is the right direction here.
Any advice from people who’ve tuned OMEN laptops would be appreciated.