Laptop overclocking adventures

[theonetruewill]

I scoot about at the moment (50cc)but I want to get my full Motorbike licence at the end of September; screw cars!

Also, looks like my brother and sister have f*cked my laptop's hinge

 

[kwchang007]

I scoot about at the moment (50cc)but I want to get my full Motorbike licence at the end of September; screw cars!

Also, looks like my brother and sister have f*cked my laptop's hinge

lol at least you have a scooter, I have a.....bike What's wrong with cars? The car I want is 17k brand new, and it's got nice stuff. (scion tc). Not to mention, I'm not going to be driving that much so gas won't kill me. (hehe we have cheap gas compared to you, but it's still expensive).

That sucks, what happened to the hinge?

 

[theonetruewill]

I'll take a picture at some point- but basically there is a crack along the back of the hind near the screw. Small but I can see the strain it's getting from opening and closing.

The fuels here is just ridiculous. To fill up my scooter it's £5 ($10) whereas to fill up the Volvo completely it's about £40 ($90), and the VW Polo it's about £25 ($50). That's why I don't want a car. It would be too expensive.

ON a plus though take a look at my 3D06 score (5793!) in Alcpone's compilation; man I love this card! It's beaten a X1900XTX I think Also cleaned the cooler as it had a tonne of dust in it and replaced the thermal paste with some AS5. The load temps have dropped 9*C!!!(now 65*) OK now for some more Voltage for an even higher oc!

 

[kwchang007]

I'll take a picture at some point- but basically there is a crack along the back of the hind near the screw. Small but I can see the strain it's getting from opening and closing.

The fuels here is just ridiculous. To fill up my scooter it's £5 ($10) whereas to fill up the Volvo completely it's about £4 ($90), and the VW Polo it's about £25 ($50). That's why I don't want a car. It would be too expensive.

ON a plus though take a look at my 3D06 score (5793!) in Alcpone's compilation; man I love this card! It's beaten a X1900XTX I think Also cleaned the cooler as it had a tonne of dust in it and replaced the thermal paste with some AS5. The load temps have dropped 9*C!!!(now 65*) OK now for some more Voltage for an even higher oc!

Ah ok, that's not good.

Gas (petrol to you Brits) is $3 a gallon (1.5 pounds). To fill up my dad's minivan it costs $50 (25 pounds). That's horrible for Americans, when we got the van two years ago I think it was around $35 (~17 pounds). My mom's car is now $30, and that's like 12 gallons or something like that. It's quite expensive for insurance.....~$1500 (750 pounds). Oh is GB still on customary, or have you guys moved to metric?

Man, you go have fun, I'm stuck here doing ap (ap=advance placement, basically a college course) summer hw.

 

[theonetruewill]

Mostly metric- but we know a gallon. Sucks for you about the course

 

[kwchang007]

Mostly metric- but we know a gallon. Sucks for you about the course

ahh ok yeah it sucks, lol.

 

[Xander9791]

I've got a compaq v3016 with a t2050 1.6ghz. I've found a clock generator that reads 1598. I try to move the slider and I do, but I don't see any clock changes after hitting apply. My temp is 65 celcius and voltage 1.2625 running at 12x multi with F@H running. What's up? Thanks. good article.

 

[Xander9791]

BTW I've got 667 ram running at 533 so I have enough headroom to get to 2 Ghz ram wise. The FSB is 533.

 

[theonetruewill]

I've got a compaq v3016 with a t2050 1.6ghz. I've found a clock generator that reads 1598. I try to move the slider and I do, but I don't see any clock changes after hitting apply. My temp is 65 celcius and voltage 1.2625 running at 12x multi with F@H running. What's up? Thanks. good article.

This does happen. So far I can't quite work out how to fix it. I believe it's locked in the BIOS and is unchangeable. However, I can suggest some solutions. Try another program with the same pll generator. Also make sure that speedstep is off. If still no changes see if you can up the voltage any further in NHC- while it's unlikely just try it. Use CPU-Z to see if any actual changes have occured.

 

[kwchang007]

This does happen. So far I can't quite work out how to fix it. I believe it's locked in the BIOS and is unchangeable. However, I can suggest some solutions. Try another program with the same pll generator. Also make sure that speedstep is off. If still no changes see if you can up the voltage any further in NHC- while it's unlikely just try it. Use CPU-Z to see if any actual changes have occured.

Uh oh. So I thought that was because you didn't have the right pll..... DAMN YOU DELL!

 

[theonetruewill]

Damn it- I keep wanting to upgrade to a cheap Core 2 but now I'm being pulled towards a Q6600.....

 

[kwchang007]

Damn it- I keep wanting to upgrade to a cheap Core 2 but now I'm being pulled towards a Q6600.....

lol, you're never going to get a really nice overclock unless you got something like a Ultra 120 extreme. Then again....it is a quad core . Why not wait for Phenom? Btw, how is your motherboard problem thing now.

 

[theonetruewill]

lol, you're never going to get a really nice overclock unless you got something like a Ultra 120 extreme. Then again....it is a quad core . Why not wait for Phenom? Btw, how is your motherboard problem thing now.

I've got a Scythe Ninja which I'll add dual 120mm fans onto. Why not wait for Phenom? I'll tell you why; remember how everyone kept saying wait for AMD/ATi's next GPU offering it'll pwn the G80? Yeah well that failed big time. The HD2900XT is crap considering it came almost 6 months later. Although it's not a useless card and is performing better in DX10 games. The Motherboard is a flipping nuisance but I may be pushing it too hard. It is only a budget 570SLI. Maybe it can't handle the sort of speeds I;m expecting it to. My memory is holding my overclock back at the current moment- but I don't want to downclock it to 667 speeds (after oc) as the loss in performance is noticeable.

 

[kwchang007]

I've got a Scythe Ninja which I'll add dual 120mm fans onto. Why not wait for Phenom? I'll tell you why; remember how everyone kept saying wait for AMD/ATi's next GPU offering it'll pwn the G80? Yeah well that failed big time. The HD2900XT is crap considering it came almost 6 months later. Although it's not a useless card and is performing better in DX10 games. The Motherboard is a flipping nuisance but I may be pushing it too hard. It is only a budget 570SLI. Maybe it can't handle the sort of speeds I;m expecting it to. My memory is holding my overclock back at the current moment- but I don't want to downclock it to 667 speeds (after oc) as the loss in performance is noticeable.

Buy a 2x1gb set of Crucial Ballistixs . Then wait to see how Phenom preforms. Well buy the Crucials, unless you think you want to move to ddr3 if you jump to Intel. But I would wait, only one thing can happen with quad cores-prices go down. Unless K10 really sucks.

 

[theonetruewill]

Buy a 2x1gb set of Crucial Ballistixs . Then wait to see how Phenom preforms. Well buy the Crucials, unless you think you want to move to ddr3 if you jump to Intel. But I would wait, only one thing can happen with quad cores-prices go down. Unless K10 really sucks.

True- I agree with your logic.
Also, I want the Crucial Ballistix trust me. I really want them- it's just I'm not sure if the extra overclock is worth the £80 it's gonna cost me.

 

[kwchang007]

True- I agree with your logic.
Also, I want the Crucial Ballistix trust me. I really want them- it's just I'm not sure if the extra overclock is worth the £80 it's gonna cost me.

If you want to move to a Core 2 and decide to go with P35 to get a nice fsb, you'll be loving the D9's. They should be able to take you to the 2000 fsb barrier. Then some after that.

Even more off topic: Why'd you British save the French in the World Wars?

 

[theonetruewill]

Even more off topic: Why'd you British save the French in the World Wars?

Because we love them
Yeah, true those D9's are pretty cool...you bstrd! Persuading me to part with my money You should be in sales;

"Well yes sir, you could have the Boxter, I mean don't get me wrong it's a great car.... But the 911 Turbo just has something extra don't you think?....Oh well i don't know it probably not the sort of car the average man could drive anyway. Very fast, very powerful- it would need an exceptional driver. But then again you do have that racer look about you sir"

"Yes, yes I do don't I"

"Absolutely sir............................... Shall I prepare the 911 for delivery?"

 

[kwchang007]

Because we love them
Yeah, true those D9's are pretty cool...you bstrd! Persuading me to part with my money You should be in sales;

"Well yes sir, you could have the Boxter, I mean don't get me wrong it's a great car.... But the 911 Turbo just has something extra don't you think?....Oh well i don't know it probably not the sort of car the average man could drive anyway. Very fast, very powerful- it would need an exceptional driver. But then again you do have that racer look about you sir"

"Yes, yes I do don't I"

"Absolutely sir............................... Shall I prepare the 911 for delivery?"

lol XD loving the French

ehh you forget I work at a fast food restaurant . But when I turn 18 I'll go looking for a job at a dealership and use you as a reference . On another note, a woman just called in response to a flyer I sent out a couple of weeks ago for IT. I might have a customer . $40 for setting up the computer (getting up connected to the printer, interent) and $20 for installing Anti-virus and ms office. Now as long as she calls after she gets fios......

Oh and for the cars.....in America it'd be
"well the standard Corvette has 400 hp and it's got lots of umph. But then you have the z06 version, a car to make any man drool. But it is 505 hp and only the best manual drivers can drive it. "

"Ah but I can't drive a manual transmission"

"It saves you gas , no gas guzzler tax"

"I'll take it"

 

[Orange_Crusader]

First off, cool forums and awesome thread, glad I found it since there's so little on the web that saw on overclocking notebooks.

Phew, just read/skimmed over every page in this thread, spent an afternoon looking up what I can do with my Compaq v6210 notebook, a AMD Turion 64 mobile at 2.0gHz. Weighed the risks, and downloaded Prime95 and ClockGen, and ran Prime95 to benchmark it, tested fine for 30 min. Started ClockGen, but got into a problem.. it's an nvidia geforce 6150 card (cruddy, I know, but I don't run any spectacular games or anything, so hey), so it's automatically detected, and I can't pick the model manually. Defaults to a 'nvidia 6100' Ok, cool, close enough, except it clocks it at 800mHz. :\ and I can't change that at all, obviously. Don't want to mess with clock settings with it at the wrong readings, so it sits in limbo right now. Anyone got ideas? :\

 

[theonetruewill]

First off, cool forums and awesome thread, glad I found it since there's so little on the web that saw on overclocking notebooks.

Phew, just read/skimmed over every page in this thread, spent an afternoon looking up what I can do with my Compaq v6210 notebook, a AMD Turion 64 mobile at 2.0gHz. Weighed the risks, and downloaded Prime95 and ClockGen, and ran Prime95 to benchmark it, tested fine for 30 min. Started ClockGen, but got into a problem.. it's an nvidia geforce 6150 card (cruddy, I know, but I don't run any spectacular games or anything, so hey), so it's automatically detected, and I can't pick the model manually. Defaults to a 'nvidia 6100' Ok, cool, close enough, except it clocks it at 800mHz. :\ and I can't change that at all, obviously. Don't want to mess with clock settings with it at the wrong readings, so it sits in limbo right now. Anyone got ideas? :\

Thanks for the compliments.
I'm a tad confused by when you say Geforece 6150. Do you mean the Integrated graphics or do you mean the motherboard chipset. I presume the graphics so if you want to change that use RivaTuner. If you want to oc your processor, download Notebook Hardware controls and set to Max Performance. Another way to do this is by using Rightmark Clock Utility. This will get rid of Speedstep (Intel) or in your case Cool 'n' Quiet (AMD). This should allow the processor to run @ full speed for the overclocking which should help. Can you exaplain a bit more on exactly what problem with clockgen you are having as I am wavering on the fact that you may be trying to discuss the chipset (nforce etc). Geforce = graphics, and then nforce = motherboard chipset.

 

[kwchang007]

Yes what the one said. Cool n' quiet will drop speeds. Also 800mhz...sounds like the speed of the HTT connection. Coincidence? or does that represent HTT?

 

[Xander9791]

You guys responded so quickly I thought that the forum somehow lost my post because I didn't see it initially! Thanks. I really kinda doubt the voltage is much of an issue even moving up that little amount. I'm gonna check with CPUZ. It's not as if the CPU is slow either. I was running Spybot SD adaware and F@H at the same time and it took a little over 5 minutes to scan. Pretty nice. For whatever reason doubling my memory to 1.5 Gigs really noticeably improved overall system performance. I was shocked. I expected it with even multitasking but it was apparent with less than 500MB page file usage. Odd.

 

[kwchang007]

You guys responded so quickly I thought that the forum somehow lost my post because I didn't see it initially! Thanks. I really kinda doubt the voltage is much of an issue even moving up that little amount. I'm gonna check with CPUZ. It's not as if the CPU is slow either. I was running Spybot SD adaware and F@H at the same time and it took a little over 5 minutes to scan. Pretty nice. For whatever reason doubling my memory to 1.5 Gigs really noticeably improved overall system performance. I was shocked. I expected it with even multitasking but it was apparent with less than 500MB page file usage. Odd.

More ram is always better. Especially since your on integrated graphics. Btw, is your HTT 800mhz.

 

[Xander9791]

What is the HTT? Do you mean FSB? The FSB isn't 800mhz, it's 533.

 

[kwchang007]

What is the HTT? Do you mean FSB? The FSB isn't 800mhz, it's 533.

I thought turion used HTT? Hyper transport?