Overclocking/BIOS Question

Ok, i know there's various overclocking guides etc. etc. My first question is:Why would Asus lock their bios? They have an overclocking tool on the desktop(all be it crappy).

Second question is, since Asus' little program OCs up to 370Mhz from what i hear. So Since well the CPU in my lappys not what i wanted even at the weakest. I was wondering if achieving a 2.26Ghz CPU from a stock speed of 2.13Ghz that easy to do.

I'm on an Asus G50Vt-X5 btw.

 

Well, you would have been better off asking the ASUS stuff in the ASUS section, but generally, the BIOSs have limited options for the end-user, because they might end up frying the motherboard or the components while overclocking.

Proprietary overclocking software usually have a certain limit to which you can raise the frequency, without overvolting. And stuff like SetFSB and all are not what an OEM would advise you to use.

Some BIOSs may have a multiplier overclock for extreme CPUs, but raising the multiplier by 2x-3x will probably get you like a couple of extra frames/sec when encoding videos....

Getting to 2.26GHz will be very easy, I guess, if you've got the tools to overclock the FSB.

You can do the math yourself: (Rated FSB/4)*(Highest Multiplier) = (CPU frequency)

Overclocking the FSB will overclock the RAM as well, and the math related to it is a bit hard :|

 

Ok on the SetFSB program there's a thing listing my type of Motherboard yet i can't find out what i have... :/ so yeah any help there?

 

You need to know the PLL no. printed on the clock generator chip on the motherboard. You can either google the PLL no. for your notebook, or open it up and look for the clock gen chip.
You can also try each PLL in the software one-by-one, and see if any of 'em work. This is risky for the stability of the system though.

 

ok since i can't find it i'll start a thread looking for this

 

bump on any helps with the pll