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Overclocking

  • 07-12-2010 8:39am
    #1
    denballs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 837 ✭✭✭


    Have we got an oc forum?.......or can anyone point me in the direction of how to learn how to oc a oem bios laptop...........is there any easy to use software or any way of accessing the motherboards original bios page?

    {sorry if i didnt giv much info but i will answer any relevant questions if asked}


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  • #2
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    You're not going to be able to OC a laptop unless it's high end (Dell XPS or Alienware). What model do you have? Best way of getting more performance is to upgrade the RAM to the max.


  • #3
    denballs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 837 ✭✭✭denballs


    Confab wrote: »
    You're not going to be able to OC a laptop unless it's high end (Dell XPS or Alienware). What model do you have? Best way of getting more performance is to upgrade the RAM to the max.

    i have 4gb ddr2 ram..........thats not the problem........its the AMD 2.1Mhz dual core thats not cutting it.........


  • #4
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Moved to the Overclocking forum.


  • #5
    wildefalcon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭wildefalcon


    I believe there are utilities out there that allow you to do this. They run from windows and allow you to select the voltage, multiplier etc. I don't know if they run on non-Intel chips, though.

    I would add the caution that if you OC your laptop you run an increased risk of overheating the machine. Laptops are hard enough to cool as it is.

    If you do go this route then I'd suggest physically modifying the laptop to increase cooling.

    An alternative would be to fit a faster hard disk or a faster processor. The hard disk is quite a bottle neck. The faster spinning disks, and faster bus connectors do help, along with the bigger caches.

    What OS are you running? If Vista then an upgrade to Win 7 would be a better use of time.


  • #6
    wildefalcon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭wildefalcon


    Oh, and the BIOS for laptops tend to be very locked down, and to open them up requires a LOT of skill and specialised tools.


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  • #7
    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    even if you can OC the laptop CPU, its really a false economy.

    Your laptop may overheat, shutdown, be unresponsive, throw up errors etc etc.

    And you're not going to be able to OC it far enough to notice much of a boost anyway.

    Exactly why do you need to OC it anyway? What is it thats going slow?


  • #8
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    If its a Phenom2/Athlon2-based CPU there are software tools that can modify the p-states - and a lot of people have had success in undervolting their CPUs, so a small frequency boost with a small voltage drop might be possible if you were lucky. But a 7200rpm HDD and Win7 are also a good idea, as is getting 4GB of the fastest RAM you can for your laptop. You can't OC a mobile CPU the same way as a desktop due to critical heat issues :o


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