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    ulv and ssd

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mas5acre, Apr 29, 2006.

  1. mas5acre

    mas5acre Notebook Evangelist

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    does a ulv processor work on any pentium m compatible notebook? If it does i think it would be cool to stick it in a uniwll 259somethin-e hybrid notebooks with an ssd drive for ultraportabity and just overclock the thing when i want to game. WHERE CAN I BUY AN SSD DRIVE AND ULV PENTIUM M? The reason i think it would be cool in this hybrid is cuz of its intel gma and its geforce 6600.
     
  2. ivar

    ivar Notebook Deity

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    afaik, it is impossible to stick in the ulv processors. Moreover, it may have a little sense if you have some good luck. You can achieve what you want with the usual Pentium M processor by undervolting it (using rmclock or notebook hardware control) and deleting the highest speedstep levels of your PM processor (when you want to use it as if it were ULV).

    According to my experience with my Pentium M755 2GHz, at the lowest speedstep level
    it was possible to undervolt it below the specification of the ULV processor at the same clock
    speeds! Moreover, when I received a notebook with 1,2GHz ULV processor and undervolted it,
    the results were the same as those for my PM 755 at the lowest speedstep levels!

    Note, the undervolting potential is an individual property of a specific processor,
    and it depends on your luck if you succeed in the same way as I did.

    See for more details here:
    http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=70943&page=75 #1118

    Hope it helps.