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    Is this the best I can get out of $500 P-7811FX?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by hellboy911, Jan 29, 2011.

  1. hellboy911

    hellboy911 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys, I had recently bought/Traded my i7 920/ ASUS RIIE/ and Corsair Dominator DDR3 6GB kit for this little laptop.

    * came with X9000, P8400, 9800 GTS 512MB, stock 4GB DR3, 7200 RPM HDD, 1900X1200 LCD Screen, and a huge Targus Power Brick.

    As soon as I got the 7811FX, i dissembled it completely. Replaced the stock P8400 with X9000 that came with it and applied ICD7 on CPU/NB/GPU. Also threw out the stock HDD and put in an Intel X25-M 80GB G2 SSD from my desktop build :D

    now the good stuff.... overclocking :D :D

    I this is the best i could get. 14x199= 3.2GHz @ 1.2125v :(

    I was hoping to get something like this, or at least get somewhere close to that Voltage with lower clock, but i was no where close.
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    This is what i was ultimately able to manage:
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    If i dropped the Vid down 1 notch to 1.200, the Intel Burn Test would fail after 4 passes at Maximum Stress Level I'm sure if i lowered the Stress Level it would probably pass the test.

    If i raise the Multiplier to 17x with no stress testing program running, the laptop would just BSOD and restart. I don't know if its something about the 17x multiplier or this X9000 is crappy.

    I mean, i did get ~400 Mhz in boost from 2.8GHz stock to 3.2GHz at 1.2125V. I was hoping to get a bit more at that high Vid and temps. or able to read the 3.2Ghz overclock at 1.2000V.

    Do you guys think this CPU has any more juice left? whats the safest max temp on this CPU's? i'm hitting 83*C max under HW Monitor and a scorching hot 89*C under RealTemp. I don't know witch one to believe.

    Is my overclock good? any suggestions on improvements? I do plan on doing RAID-0 with another Intel 80GB G2 SSD ( if intel every comes out with new Firmware that supports TRIM with RAID-0) or go with 2x OCZ Vertex's in RAID-0 and just use GC (Garbage Collection) instead. Only other thing left to do is overclock the GPU.

    but mainly at this moment... i want your guys opinion and thoughts on this CPU overclock and the temps. What's the Max *C this little X9000 can handle?
     
    hellboy911, Jan 29, 2011
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  2. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    I can't speak for the x9000, I have the x9100. Ouit of that though I get too 3.99GHz but not running linpak etc. For stable linpak etc I can do 3.45 GHz.

    Be sure to have max temp for HWMonitor at 105c, default is 100c and this will cause an improper reading...........
     
    TANWare, Jan 29, 2011
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