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    This might sound a bit dumb...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by morgan-X65, Oct 17, 2007.

  1. morgan-X65

    morgan-X65 Notebook Consultant

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    How do you overclock a laptop? I have seen threads where people say things like:

    "save your money, don't get a 7700 CPU, get the 7500 and OC it"

    On a desktop with a decent M/B you can change the voltage, FSB, multiplier, etc.

    But on a laptop the BIOS has none of these options so how do you overclock one?
     
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  2. notyou

    notyou Notebook Deity

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    The only way to do it on a BIOS locked laptop is OCing through Windows by changing the FSB. There are a bunch of programs out there, use google to find them since there are a lot. Note that the MB may not currently be supported so you'd have to wait for a future release. And most importantly, if you do find software that works, make sure that you set it NOT to start when Windows starts (until you get it stable at least and don't care if you lose battery life).
     
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  3. John Ratsey

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    There are utilities such as Clockgen which can manipulate the timing chip. However, this doesn't work for all chipsets (in my experience ATI but not Intel). So, if you get one of the cheaper Samsung notebooks then you can try overclocking (on one occasion I took the T2250 in an R20 up to 2.6GHz) but I doubt it you will get much joy with the X65.

    However, unless you are running CPU-intensive applications which take minutes or hours to run, you will never notice the difference between a T7500 or a T7700.

    John
     
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