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    Overclocking my Dell.

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by tsavs, Oct 8, 2011.

  1. tsavs

    tsavs Newbie

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    I have a AMD Athlon II P340 Dual-Core Processor on my Dell Inspiron, do you think I could overclock it? Or will it just overheat too much?
     
    tsavs, Oct 8, 2011
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Depends on your laptop... you should find out if you can overcome the technical aspects of overclocking on a laptop before worrying about how much headroom you have.
     
    Commander Wolf, Oct 10, 2011
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  3. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Which Inspiron do you have? It would be potentially easier replacing it with a CPU that has faster nominal clock speeds than finding a way to overclock it. P340 is AMD's Socket S1G4, so pretty much any modern AMD CPU (Athlon II X2, Phenom II X2/X3/X4) will work. That is what I did for my brother's Inspiron M5030. It had an AMD Sempron V160 which I quickly replaced with a Phenom II N620 2.8 GHz dual core, straight swap.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Oct 11, 2011
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