Inspiron 1720 overclocking

Hey guys.

As most of us have found out, there is no in-built way to overclock. I would like to take my T7500 (Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz) to new heights. I've searched for Intel 965 software overclocking tools to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

i wouldn't suggest overclocking with a laptop

 

Overclock the video card. You won't get far with the cpu.

 

how do you overclock the gpu?

 

RivaTuner... any GPU monitoring software

i agree with aaa... its usually the GPU that's the bottleneck in gaming... if u want to overclock the CPU for the purposes of faster videoencoding (CPU intensive tasks), then i dunoo

 

ive noticed that rivatuner v2.24 has problems overclocking the 8600m gt with the WHQL 185.85 drivers? anyone else agree?

 

The Inspiron 1720 cannot overclock the CPU, neither through BIOS nor a Windows-based PLL tool, like SetFSB.

 

Even if it were possible, when you overclock a desktop you tend to make sure it's got enough cooling to cope with the added horsepower. This is a whole lot more difficult when it comes to a laptop, and perhaps more important because of the small space.

I'd highly recommend you stop looking to overclock your CPU. To be fair I don't know why you'd want to anyway.

Back when we all used single core processors that were measured not in GHz but in MHz then absolutely I can see the need to overclock. For the vast majority of people though, your CPU wont get utilised fully anyway; so why overclock for?

 

Rivatuner has never worked for me on any laptop that I have owned. It will display temperatures and basic information but there is no overclocking option.

I had great success with ATITool and overclocking the 8600m GT in my friends laptop and the 8400m GS in my laptop. Nvidia nTune works also, however getting it to set the clocks at startup or when you open a game is a little more difficult.

 

The 1720 has the GM965 chipset and thus able to support T9300, T9500 and X9000 processors. The 1720 is able to take up excellent cooling with the 8600M GT @ 65*C even when overclocked and handles the X9000 well at just 60*C max. (See sig)

Yes I am not so sure why Riva hasn't been able to overclock lately, (well Riva has yet to be updated as yet in a long time though) You may want to try using Nvidia's GeForce drivers and enable performance service instead to do an overclock.

 

cpuid tells me i have t5450 socket p, 65nm chip. will the t9300 still go in this motherboard? inspiron 1720

 

The T9300 is also socket P, and has the same power draw. Only difference is it's a 45nm 800 FSB processor, which is still totally supported by the GM965.
@SomeFormOfHuman, the X9000 is not guaranteed to work. That processor was never offered as an option, and has higher TDP than the T-series processors. There may not be BIOS support at all, or the motherboard may not be able to cope with the higher power draw. The T9500 (2.6GHz/800 FSB/6MB L2/45nm) is the highest-end processor that I think will work for sure on the 1720.

That said, there are people who have had success with the X9000 on laptops that weren't designed for it, so it's not completely impossible, but it's a risk. There's no guarantee that it will work, and until you actually try, there's no way to be sure.

If I were you, Madmonkee, I'd play it safe and stick with the T9500 or T9300. Either one should be way more than you need anyway.

 

Dude, I have the X9000 and I OWN the X9000 under my hood with BIOS A09 and it runs at 60*C max. It's NOT a risk, and its perfect under it. It's just expensive and wasteful because the X9000 is a OC'ing processor, and in terms of default/stock clock wise the X9000 runs at stock 2.8GHz, you're not getting what you pay for in comparisons between the T9300 @ 2.5GHz and T9500 2.6GHz processors for a mere 200-300MHz difference. Sorry to be offensive, but I hate it when people have yet to try it and start to assume rumored things that don't even work out it be.

My Inspiron 1720 is currently using the T9300 because I need to do some preliminary tests on the X9000 on my 1720 for over 2 months before handling it over to my M1730, which runs almost the same temperatures on the 1720. The T9300 came with the 1720 when I ordered in February last year.

And for over 2 months it runs very well with maximum temperatures @ 62*C and that's 100% CPU usage for over 12 hours rendering a 3ds Max scene without coolers. Idle temperatures are at 40*C @ 2.8GHz with Speedstep disabled.

If not why'd you think I have it under my sig?

Moreover, yes, Bang per buck CPUs for the 1720 would be the T9300/T9500 processors. It runs a GM965 chipset, and it's capable of doing so.

Sorry if I sound a little mean, but I just thought I'd like to clear things up.

Oh yeah, I'm sure you know that the 1720 has access to all 6GB RAM max due to BIOS limitation.

Peace.

 

Hey, I'm not trying to spread rumors or lies here, I'm just pointing out facts: the X9000 is theoretically perfectly compatible, but since Dell does not officially support that processor on the 1720, the only way to find out one way or another is to try it. And that's what you bravely did. Seeing as it works in yours, it's now safe to say that the X9000 will indeed work.

Kudos for having the balls to try it without knowing for certain ahead of time. I was actually considering the X9000 for my Studio 1535 (also PM965 chipset), as an upgrade from my old T5750 (2.0GHz/667 FSB/2MB L2/65nm), but since nobody else had ever tried it, I just didn't want to risk being the first and finding out that it doesn't work. So, I ended up getting the T9500 at the expense of 200MHz, and it's been fantastic ever since.

 

Double the speed of SATA to 3GB:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4910697#post4910697
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8GB RAM:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=305464

COULD THE 1720 take a QUAD-core intel processor is there anyone which it could handle? could it take the x9100 too?

thanks

 

could the 1720 run with the QX9300 ? http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=36727&processor=QX9300&spec-codes=SLB5J