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    U150 Overclock?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by altarity, Mar 18, 2010.

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    Recently picked up a U150 with the su7300 Core 2 Duo chip. I've seen that ASUS and Acer both have ULV laptops that can overclock the su7300 to 1.73ghz. Does anyone know if this might be possible on the U150? (or any of Lenovo's ulv laptops for that matter)

    Not really sure what I'd use the extra speed for, but I'm interested in the possibility.
     
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    What PLL is in it? Likely Lenovo have TME enabled requiring a hardmod. See here. Good news is the Alienware M11x overclock is simply changing the BSEL pins on the CPU from 200->266Mhz, so could theoretically just change the FSLx pins on the PLL (which are tied to BSEL) to do the same.
     
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    Thanks. I googled real quick to see if I could find out what clock chip was in the laptop and didn't find anything. If, as seems likely, the clock is locked at the hardware level, i don't think I'm too interested in taking an iron to my my new lappy. I'm pretty satisfied with the speed, and was mostly interested to see if there was an easy software mod.

    Thanks again.
     
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