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so first up sorry for the thread necro not sure whats up with the thread most of the links are broken but I managed to piece enough together to make this work I am not the happy owner of a E6430 with i7-3740QM now running at 4.0Ghz fresh links to the tools since there appears to been some drama that resulted in breakage (why can't people just get along ffs) UEFI Tool https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases I used NA A56 IFR Extractor https://github.com/LongSoft/Universal-IFR-Extractor/releases and to anybody that needs it here is the pre extracted IRF for a Dell Latitude E6430 BIOS A23 the latest and probly last bios as of this posting DELL 6430 BIOS REV A23 IRF_.zip as well as a minimal efi shell efi shell a minimal grub based cli with the setupvars tool efishell.zip dell.zip contains the python script for extracting uefi images from dells updater .exe (YOU MUST USE PYTHON27 To execute this script! dell.zip but in case you didn't want todo what i had to and spend 3 hours trying to navigate flamewars and broken links it boils down to this get the IRF table for your laptop boot to a efi shell config your desired vars remember you need to make sure the following are disabled TDP lock disabled config lock disabled TDP config up ENABLED then you can set your desired TDP and multis remember things are in hexadecimal so you need to remember to convert for example setup_var 0x25 0x28 will set the one core turbo multi to 40x here is a handy converter to make it easy https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-binary.html?x=0x28 Same goes for tdp and other things you need to set be prepared to open your device and disconnect the cmos battery should you mess up and cause a no boot