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    Old school: Pentium M overclock and Sentia M3200 upgrades.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by whitrzac, Sep 9, 2013.

  1. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    I needed a small, cheap, cool looking laptop for car ECU tuning... The m3200 was the only thing that fit the bill :rolleyes:

    Now the fun begins, it's no m9750 with dual ATI 3850s/7600g, but I can tweek on in nonetheless

    First up, its coming with a pentium m 740... :mad:
    With pentium Ms being dirt cheap, what's the best one to grab for a pinmod?
    I highly doubt the 755and 765 would work, but has anyone tried? :rolleyes:
    So far it looks like the 735($5) or 745($10) is the best pick, but with 780s only being $30...


    Memory is DDR2...
    2gb?
    3gb?
    More?


    Surprisingly it has a SATA HDD jack :eek: so it will get a cheap SSD and probably an IDE bluray drive. Just cause...


    I haven't been around for a while... Are there any decent express card USB 3.0 devices?
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    I haven't heard of Pentium M supporting more than 2 GB of RAM, though I think some people have gotten the laptop BIOS to recognized 2 GB of DDR2 sticks, but I don't think the chipset can actually handle more than 2 GB.
     
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    Qing Dao Notebook Deity

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    Get a pair of the fastest 1GB DDR2 sticks you can find. Also why wouldn't a 755 or 765 work? But you don't want those anyway. Stick with a processor with a C0 stepping. See here: List of Intel Pentium M microprocessors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Looking at the processors available, you should probably get a 745 or 745a, but make sure it is a C0 stepping. That is the C0 stepping processor with the highest multiplier. You can do a pin mod to get 533Mhz FSB, which would give you 2.4Ghz. If it has any more headroom you can then try overclocking the FSB with software.
     
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    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    I don't think a pentium M could be run that fast(2.66/2.8ish) without a significant voltage bump...
     
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    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    I got it today... I could have sworn the HDD was SATA...

    Any recomendations on putting an SSD in it?

    native PATA SSD or SATA SSD + adapter?
     
    whitrzac, Sep 12, 2013
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