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    How do I overclock a Toshiba a210-11p?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by duniedunie001, Apr 11, 2008.

  1. duniedunie001

    duniedunie001 Newbie

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    I bought a Toshiba a210-11p laptop last year to play games on (naturally).

    But to my dismay when I seen the requirements for Crysis, I nearly had a fit!!! 2.8ghz of processing power. I mean what kind of a machine could have that!! :mad:

    Anyway here's the specification of my laptop:

    Tohiba Satellite A210-11P:
    AMD Turion64 X2 TL-56 (1.8Ghz),
    2GB RAM (DDR2 667mhz),
    ATI Radeon HD 2600,
    200GB Harddrive.

    As you can see i'm struggling to run Crysis on this computer!!! :(

    My Question is very simple: How in the name of RAM do I get more Ghz out of my processor (i.e. by overclocking) but without putting it into a meltdown or worse?
     
  2. SmoothTofu

    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    Actually, the 2.8GHz specification is for Pentium 4 processors. Your Turion 64 x2 should have no problems handling it sufficiently. I don't think that's a bad setup for Crysis, probably around medium settings/1280x800?
     
  3. Steven87

    Steven87 Notebook Consultant

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    Without overclocking, I play Crysis in DX9 in Vista at 1024 x 768, with everything on low appart from shaders, sound, water and physics on medium. That gets a smooth framerate for the first 2/3rds of the game. I set shaders to low once in the Ice levels and later levels (which are more demanding). And I set water to low once on the aircraft carrier because medium water without medium shaders doesn't render the water correctly in some of the areas of the ship.

    Overclocking enables me to keep the first settings I said when later in the game and it runs very smoothly for the first 2/3rds of the game. For the first 2/3rds, Medium shadows are fine with the overclock, but I prefer just to set the settings and leave them. With the overclock and first settings I said, I get an average of around 34/35 fps in the GPU benchmark (in the Crysis folder) and that's running in DX10 which is quite a bit slower than DX9 (probably at least 5 fps average in Crysis with the ATi HD 2600).