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    Post your experiences in undervolting your Dell.

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by loesjoel, Jul 2, 2006.

  1. loesjoel

    loesjoel Notebook Consultant

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    I'm about to try undervolting on my E1505 for the first time with NHC to see what kinda of results I'll find. In someone's guide here he says most computers can be undervolted .200V safely. Has that been your experience? Also, if I undervolt, will I my processor be less powerful, as in, will I still have equal performance in games when underclocked vs. normal settings?

    I'll post my results here in a bit!
     
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    I've just dropped everything by .200V (or as far down as it would go if it was less than .200V from the lowest voltage) and it seems to be passing all the 30 second checks. I'll run a full check after this and let you know later this evening how it went.
     
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    mZimm Notebook Evangelist

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    I'd recommend testing with Prime95 for full stability at least a few hours, I usually do overnight.
     
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    Well I used NHC for several hours checking the system and everything worked fine. The settings are as such:

    6x .9500
    7x .9500
    8x .9500
    9x .9500
    10x .9750
    11x .9750
    11x .9750
    11x .9750

    I spose I should see if it still works while doing some gaming. Soooo, does anyone else have experiences to share?

    The results:

    Duo Core T2400 1.83 GHz
    Clock 999 MHz
    Multiplier 6x
    Voltage 0.9500 V
     
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    Everything held up fine with an hour or so of Call of Duty 2. So I give this set up the thumbs up. Do you think the 10x and 11x's could be pulled down to .9500 V?

    Wow, taking a look at my mobile meter, my temp has dropped from about 41 C to 29.5 C since I've stopped playing. That's the lowest temp I've ever seen on this! The fan just stopped at 28.5 C. We'll see where it idles.
     
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