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    Overclocking my Sony Vaio FE21S!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by catacylsm, Apr 8, 2009.

  1. catacylsm

    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Hey all,

    Im no longer using my FE21S

    7600go
    1GB Ram
    T2400 Processor @1.83 Duo
    160GB HDD

    Now it was hitting 100 and eventually powering down (Mind you this was after 4 years of having the heat sink uncleaned) so i eventually decided to open it up and clean, boy was i covered in dust :).

    Anyway after that i began to run some test etc etc,

    Idling it was doing 17degrees c on 1 core, 20 on the other (Nice ey??)
    And then i ran wprime32 1000 mode (took a while) but ran the CPU at full, max temparature was 67-70, which i must say is also very nice, so i think theres room for OC in this well built machine, problem is i cant seem to find any program with the FE21'S Mobo support.

    Can anyone suggest how i can ramp up fsb speeds and that, i think the margin for cooling is nice to be honest.
     
  2. catacylsm

    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Problem solved (Y)

    Used set FSB to ramp my CPU up to the max (80C highest temparature) Dam Sony, bloody cooling is beaut.

    Managed to kick out

    an extra 400mhz or so aswell as an extra 105 to the fsb.

    In my oppinion thats pretty great.

    Will ramp up GPU using ntune now and see if sony's cooling can cope with more then just the CPU


    Complete a Wprime32 in 41 seconds.
     
  3. TZ300

    TZ300 Notebook Evangelist

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    What tool did you use ramping up fsb?
     
  4. catacylsm

    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    its known as setFSB, its very handy however you need your mobo ISC code (unless its another type of code)
     
  5. homstead_us

    homstead_us Notebook Consultant

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    Thats pretty cool but sounds scary since this is my main comp lol, good find though.
     
  6. catacylsm

    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Hehe, its done the job very well, not become unstable or had any error at all, and a massive performance gain which im very happy about :)