m11x r1 still relevant?

5-10 months down the road when i decide to "upgrade" i could sell my modded R1 for $500 easily. at 2ghz of course.

 

Pin cutting won't work with my PLL, sadly.

 

You have an SLG so the only pin cutting mod you can do is the 1.73Ghz mod. This is 1.73Ghz true speed, as in real 266x6.5, not the mistaken 1.73Ghz of the early days by faulty reporting. ajslay did it and has some positive results from 3DMark.

 

Hmm, last I read only the resistor mod would make any difference.

So assuming it leaves the multiplier at 6.5 all the time then?

 

It works like stock 1.3Ghz but at 266mhz FSB so RAM runs at 1:1 (1066mhz). Speedstep, voltage and multipliers are preserved. Doing this mod will remove the 1.3Ghz clockspeed with overclock mode off and replace it with 1.73Ghz.
Only catch is that RAM has a chance of being unstable at CL6 1066mhz. Not much can be done except get new RAM if that occurs as the R1 will not boot with higher timings then CL6.

 

the extra 130mhz is noticeable. and its worth it if you have the right ram. also the 2ghz mod isnt very hard, you just need a little practice before doing it and you need to find a soldering iron with a small enough tip. and a 10k resister.

 

Trust me, I botched one mod that required soldering a very small pin in the past and will never try something like that again.

 

that sucks. well im going to do the mod here in the next few weeks, and il try to do a video on how to do it.

im only 17 and have pretty stable hands, all should go well. but the 1.73ghz mod is easy. all you do is cut pin 2. done.

 

Right, that's why I want to do only the 1.73GHz mod, but leery because of possibility not working because of the RAM not performing at CL6. And that would mean buying RAM that worked at CL6 or soldering that pin back together, which I'm not ready to do.

 

true, this is the ram i have, and its 100% stable.

 

Oh, that's good to know. I guess when I get up the courage to do it I will. Heck might as well.

 

yup thats what i said haha. im just having trouble finding a small enough soldering iron.

 

I'll probably just stick with cutting the pin. 1.73GHz is a free boost without much work as long as RAM can handle it.

 

I was just thinking back to point of this post though, Funny how they're on to R3 and they still sell the R1. Obviously it makes them some decent money. Still a great little machine. Got mine refurb (actually I think it's new) for $500 with SU7300, 4GB, 500GB HDD. Funny thing is I swapped out the 4GB for 8GB and 500GB HDD for 120GB Intel SSD.

 

yeah it must be, im surprised the r2 isnt being sold anymore. and yes it is a great little machine, best iv ever owned. had an hp mini 311 before this. overclocked to 2.4ghz, and it still didnt compare to the speed of the m11x processor.

 

Yeah, I considered the Mini 311. I wanted to go inexpensive as it's my second and "backup" laptop and doesn't get used a whole lot. But for $500 I couldn't pass up the deal and glad I got it. It can play most games I play (except BFBC2) reasonably well.

I will have to use it exclusively though for close to two weeks soon because my Sager laptop has to go back for a motherboard swap because of the Intel SATA recall. We'll see how it really performs then, because I put a solid six or more hours/day on my current laptop between basic desktop apps, some VM work, web stuff, and gaming.

Plus because they continue to sell it, hoping we'll get one more solid set of driver updates, primarily video drivers, before they let it go. I may most likely get an R3, even refurb from the Outlet, when and if prices drop < $600 down the road. Give my current M11x to my 16 y.o. niece. She'll be happy as a clam.

 

i play BFBC2 with no problems. the extra 130mhz boost helps a lot actualy.
my r1 is also my main machine, it does andything and everything i throw at it with no trouble at all. im going to wait til january to upgrade to the r3 i think, (tax return) and i hope i can get it for less then $700. got my r1 for $628 total brand new.

the hp mini 311 is still a worth companion tho. nvidia ion (9400m) and an atom n270 at 2.4ghz still feels speedy. cant handle the high end really demanding games, but it can still play a few new select titles while overclocked.

 

What tweaks, if any, have you done with bfbc2. I can set everything to low, run DirectX 9, and still get horrible slowdowns, and average maybe 20 fps. I've got a pretty clean install, really nothing on in the background. I've tried stevenxowens tweaks but nothing made much difference.

I wish I could run at 1024x576, but there's no option for custom resolutions in the Dell drivers, and don't think Bad Company 2 will run at anything less than 800x600 anyhow. I just prefer running with full widescreen.

 

20FPS? That's pretty good. I averaged in the mid teens with my R1. Have you tried 1024x600?

 

Maybe I will. I've used 1280x720 but that isn't much less than 1366x768.

I guess I'm just used to the super smoothness of my desktop and laptop.

 

all i did was the network throttling tweak, and turned down shadows. and i run all my games at 1024x768

also my windows 7 installation is pretty heavily optimized, with 1 chrome tab open i have 31 processes going.

 

my r1 is still relevant to me

 

Too bad there's no way to actually overclock the CPU further without physically tinkering with the hardware.

 

thats true, but the hardware mods arnt all that bad. there most of the time 20-30 minute jobs. and you dont have to mess with software everytime you turn on your computer.

 

Apart from the fact that I haven't used a soldering iron in more than 10 years, I really doubt I will be able to precisely cut a pin or solder a resistor onto the board without screwing up something else (more of a software person rather than a hardware person). I also extended my warranty cause of the dodgy hinge, so it's kinda like I've wasted my money if I just go on and void it.

 

thats true, im the hardware type. im still in my upper teens and have a really steady hand for this type of thing. if you have an ICS pll, you can just cut a pin for the TME unlock, then use software to overclock.

 

Same here. I think I can manage to cut a pin, but soldering those tiny components, forget it. Although I think I will wait until I get my hinge replacement before I do the mod. I know they will do it outside of warranty, but just don't want to take that chance.