W3V Pin-Mod Success! 1.7 Overclocked to 2.26Ghz

As most of you know, a few weeks back there was a huge HEATED debate/discussion about pin-modding and overclocking with laptops in general in this forum. Click here to read the previous thread.

On the thread, I mentioned that I would have the guts to actually mod a W3V once I get my hands on it. Well well, to those of you that were skeptical, read it and weep!

Its been about 4 weeks since I got the laptop once I cracked open the box, the first thing I did was overclock! I know, i'm pretty insane I've been running this laptop overclocked since I got it, and it's been rock stable all this time. Abeit a little warm (65-70 at full load) but nothing alarming.

Anyhow here are some pics of the process. NOTE! This is not a tutorial, and please don't blame me if you mess up your own laptop by following this.



At first when I cracked open the laptop, I was surprised to see such a small heatpipe/heatsink. I was slightly concerned whether it was able to handle the heat generated from bumpng to 2.26Ghz.


Here is the warranty sticker off the heatsink! Oh well!! Bye bye warranty...


Having the Pentium 740 yanked out. Here is the Pin set in place ready for the new 1.7Ghz Proccessor that was pulled from my previous HP dv1000 laptop(that was overclocked). The processor ran 2.26ghz, no reason why it won't run here


The pin! Made this out of really thin copper wires found in speaker wire. Unwinded the braid and took a tiny piece.


Here's a small guide that I put together as to where to place the pin in the socket.


Ahh, Artic Silver 5... the good stuff!


Boot UP! It's all good! Notice the 2.26Ghz


And finally, screenshots.. with CPU-ID and NHC... 2.26Ghz goodness..




Well, I hope you all enjoyed what I've done. Yes, I lost my warranty for my Asus Ensemble laptop. No biggie, judging by the build quality with Asus I doubt I'll ever use it. *fingers crossed* It's been about a month, and everything is still in speedy tip-top shape!

Note: I'm not imposing anything here! I'm not going to try to convince you all to overclock, if you fear it, then look the other way. There is a chance that you can permanently damage your laptop by inexperience or mishandling. For Ensemble owners, you will VOID your warranty. I also believe that there are a lot of people that don't know and just not educated enough to take extra care to overclocking. So I won't encourage it. Overclocking is not a simple task, it's an more advanced technique that takes alot of research, experience and patience. It's not made for the casual computer user that doesn't know a thing about cpus, memory, and mainboards. Overclocking indeeds voids warranty, and if anything fails as of result of it, the user is liable for his/her own actions.

 

Sorry, don't have all the pics posted. Fixing the problem!!

 

Good job.

Now, I wonder how the heat will be

 

Wow! Great job... I love how your desktop theme is also of a "brushed aluminum" look. Haha...nice.

 

Whoa, nice job~! I'm not quite ready to do any pin mods, as I've been having too many problems with my baby to say bye bye to the warranty

I will do it in the future though, maybe when my warranty is over with and I know my baby is in good shape.

You're seriously into modding eh? I like that brushed aluminum mod for your dv1000.

Also I would like to know which programs you used to get your desktop the way it is, yeah a little off topic

I've tried some programs out there to make my desktop to look like that and they just screwed up my windows installation.

Cheers,
Mike

 

Yeah, I was worried about that at the beginning. Like I said, the heatsink was smaller than I expected. As well, I wish they actually made vents at the bottom of the panel rather than grabbing air from the keyboard. Without the back panel It's a little cooler, a few degrees lower for both idle and full load. But i guess it's all good engineering since it never reaches over 72 degrees celsius at full load even still with the back panel. At idle the temps sit around 52-55 degrees depending on the ambient temps. I know Dothans can handle up to 80-90 degrees.It's a little warmer than the usual 1.86ghz processor, but that's a given since it's a 2.26ghz.

 

posted pictures!

 

Yep! Pretty much really into modding stuff. Been like that since my first computer(486), and I don't intend to stop LOL.

Oh! for the desktop themes, I use UXtheme.dll. It's the least resource hog and uses the native Windows THEME manager to handle everything, so there's absolutely no problems at all with Windows or compatibility. You can find it here at this link http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=140707
Make sure you follow their instructions when installing.
Once installed, Then simply goto DeviantArt or WinCustomize and download any MS Visual Style.

As for the dock at the bottom, it's called Stardock ObjectDock. I customized my own and smply downloaded all the dock icons from DeviantArt(search for dock icons or images).

 

Awesome, more pictures~!

I'm sure this is a perfectly safe overclock, well if you could even call it that. I'm sure every single mobile processor from Intel can handle the 2.26 overclock.

This is not a tutorial you say in the disclaimer, but guess what, it is a nice little tutorial. hehe

I'm gonna do this someday, just when is the question. Also, heat shouldn't be an issue since your board is capable of handling a 2.26ghz processor.

Since it's not like a desktop overclock where you have to bump up vcore and stuff it's kinda like cheating on an exam. FREE MARKS~!

Hey maybe a sticky for this even though he says it's not a tutorial?

Of course with a huge warning label.

Cheers,
Mike

 

nothing special, i did it like 4 months ago.

 

It was just kind of funny, seeing how we had a long discussion of the "issues" with overclocking in the thread dvx1000 posted earlier.

 

Um... weren't you in the thread too?

 

That was gutsy, man. How far down in the socket did your wire go? Does it have to fit all the way down in the socket, or just touch the cpu's pins?

 

It doesn't need to go far down, just enough to make contact between the 2 pins. As far as gutsy goes, it's not at all. Check out this thread in Notebookforums.com http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=80879 , they have a thread stickied and it's been over half a year since they discovered the mod.

 

Hey, thanks for the link, I'll check it out!