overclocking my duo

i have a 1.6ghz core duo. ive heard that all the duo chips are the same, just different clock speeds. There would be no harm in overclocking mine to about 1.83 or so would there? or even 2.0?

 

They are the "same" only in the way that a rubber stamp puts out the "same" picture every time. Sometimes it's a very good picture, other times, there are a few spotty lines and such. The ones with spotty lines are clocked down lower so they work, and the ones with cleaner lines are clocked up and sold at a premium. Sometimes a premium one is clocked down because there's more demand for the cheaper ones, but that's a risk you take when overclocking. There's no guarantee that yours is exactly the same as a 2GHz Core Duo.

Also, how do you propose to do that? I believe that Intel locks down the multipliers of their chips pretty well, especially on their own chipsets, so you'd have to resord to bus overclocking, which isn't necessarily possible But I'll let someone else sound off on this.

 

lol....i thought i read it somewere, and was thinkin about giving it a try thats all. if its that hard, its not worth it

 

What software are you considering? Notebook BIOS doesnt seem to have any options on it.

 

Heh, good analogy.

 

As above, just because it's essentially the same CPU design doesn't mean that it'll run as fast as the top-end ones. In a desktop PC with a decent mainboard it'd be easy to do the relatively small overclock from 1.66Ghz to 1.83Ghz, but laptop BIOSes tend not to have the options. To overclock on a laptop would need a lot more work, and it'd also be a bad idea in general (more speed = more heat and less battery life).

 

I made a thread like 3 days ago.


Nothing, clockgen didnt work at crashed my laptop.

 

You can easily overclock core duos in a desktop motherboard configuration. Laptops are harder to overclock, but there has been some success with clockgen and some models (Toshiba comes to mind).