Laptop overclocking adventures

[kwchang007]

ok well i have some wierd data here
with screenshots to prove it
my cpu went from 1600mhz to 1668mhz on its own
[img=http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4250/1668mhzta6.th.jpg]
[img=http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4250/1668mhzta6.jpg]
i also was able to oc my gpu using power strip 104mhz on the clock clock and around 50 mhz on the memory clock
w00t i gained an extra 10 fps in the css video stress test

[img=http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/7375/ocgpudq0.jpg]
the only reason im posting two links for each pic is because i dont no which will work

lol dell's are weird. that's all i have to say, i bet it's just the fsb flucating, nothing to be worried about, it's only 88 mhz, not that much of a difference. i can oc my x1400 from 432 core 391.5 mem to 526 core 441 mem. so that's 94 core and 49.5 mhz, so that's probably about right.

 

[theonetruewill]

lol dell's are weird. that's all i have to say, i bet it's just the fsb flucating, nothing to be worried about, it's only 88 mhz, not that much of a difference. i can oc my x1400 from 432 core 391.5 mem to 526 core 441 mem. so that's 94 core and 49.5 mhz, so that's probably about right.

Mine fluctuates about 8Mhz most of the time. Yours is a DELL and I doubt that the sensors are accurate so I'd ignore it, whatever happens it's fine, it's not doing any damage

 

[kwchang007]

Mine fluctuates about 8Mhz most of the time. Yours is a DELL and I doubt that the sensors are accurate so I'd ignore it, whatever happens it's fine, it's not doing any damage

you're talking about the cpu speed right? oh and sensors....i guess they're close enough 30 to 40 c cpu is not hot enough for me to feel the case on top and feel it. hdd at 30-35 is cool to the touch to, maybe off by a degree or so, but not to bad all in all.

 

[theonetruewill]

Chang I think I might write a proper article on how to overclock laptops, what do you think. And then post it on digg.com or something. If I do, could you be my proof-reader/information-integrity checker?

Also check this out
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=31119

 

[kwchang007]

Chang I think I might write a proper article on how to overclock laptops, what do you think. And then post it on digg.com or something. If I do could you be my proof-reader/information-integrity checker?

yuppp, hopefully other people to. im not the best at grammer etc, but i will try and make sure it is the best it can be. just pm or email the attachment in word to me. (yes im a ms junkie with the full office set but it is ms office 03 i think) just not before tuesday, i have a huge project do then....and im sure you could use the time too

EDIT: looks like a fun game. just don't get me addicted to soon XD finals are soon, and as always, i got to finish the year with straight a's...jeez asian parents...what do you know..

 

[theonetruewill]

yuppp, hopefully other people to. im not the best at grammer etc, but i will try and make sure it is the best it can be. just pm or email the attachment in word to me. (yes im a ms junkie with the full office set but it is ms office 03 i think) just not before tuesday, i have a huge project do then....and im sure you could use the time too

Thanks...and I have my GCSE exam on Tuesday....Oh shit, I have a GCSE on TuesdaY!!! HOLY MOTHER OF....CALM DOWN...just calm down

On a more on topic note I have full office too, lol. but its office 2000. Thanks

 

[kwchang007]

Thanks...and I have my GCSE exam on Tuesday....Oh shit, I have a GCSE on TuesdaY!!! HOLY MOTHER OF....CALM DOWN...just calm down

On a more on topic note I have full office too, lol. but its office 2000. Thanks

lol, what's a GCSE? hahahaha that's what im like before a test...lol. np it'll be cool, tpu article published on digg.com

 

[theonetruewill]

lol, what's a GCSE? hahahaha that's what im like before a test...lol. np it'll be cool, tpu article published on digg.com

GCSE is the major english exam for 16yr olds. (Oh dear, I'm halfway to 32) It is really important for a number of reasons the first being which universities you can get into.
I'm hoping for A*'s across the board.

 

[kwchang007]

GCSE is the major english exam for 16yr olds. (Oh dear, I'm halfway to 32) It is really important for a number of reasons the first being which universities you can get into.
I'm hoping for A*'s across the board.

lol that's interesting. im half way to 30 (almost) wait, 30...EWWWWWW OUT OF MY 20's?!?!?!?!?!? good luck on those, i just have a normal, old, hard spanish test.

 

[frankie827]

lol that's interesting. im half way to 30 (almost) wait, 30...EWWWWWW OUT OF MY 20's?!?!?!?!?!? good luck on those, i just have a normal, old, hard spanish test.

im halfway to 28 lol

but ya i can run bf2 with full settings at 800x600 with no lag
and at 1024x768 with a bit of lag
so ocing the graphics card really did help

 

[kwchang007]

im halfway to 28 lol

but ya i can run bf2 with full settings at 800x600 with no lag
and at 1024x768 with a bit of lag
so ocing the graphics card really did help

well...im halfway to 28 right now, but in a couple of weeks i'll be halfway to 30 lol, || that much closer to driving . oh sweet bf2 runs on a x1400 YAY!!!!! and i saw your system specs and thinking about the upgrade, unless they come out with a better gfx card for our laptop, or you need the cpu power, 1.6 is fast enough. i got my 2ghz c2d b/c of the deal, it was like spend over 1200 and get 30% off or something like that, amazing deal. then when i rma'ed my original 80 gb hdd i got a better one...i was soo surprised. now all i need is for a new vga to come out (i have been saying that alot, lol) and get that....

 

[frankie827]

well...im halfway to 28 right now, but in a couple of weeks i'll be halfway to 30 lol, || that much closer to driving . oh sweet bf2 runs on a x1400 YAY!!!!! and i saw your system specs and thinking about the upgrade, unless they come out with a better gfx card for our laptop, or you need the cpu power, 1.6 is fast enough. i got my 2ghz c2d b/c of the deal, it was like spend over 1200 and get 30% off or something like that, amazing deal. then when i rma'ed my original 80 gb hdd i got a better one...i was soo surprised. now all i need is for a new vga to come out (i have been saying that alot, lol) and get that....

the nvidia 7300 turbocache is a pos
i bought 1 from dell spare parts thinking it was better and i installed and played bf2 on full settings at 800x600 with sooooo much lag, so i put my x1400 back in and everything was fine
im actually thinking of buyinga 2.0ghz c2d but i dunno

 

[frankie827]

u have a nice monitor for it
u got the upgraded 1
i have the 1280x800 i was really hoping to get the 1 u have
but since this laptop is a free replacement from dell for my defective inspiron 6000, i didnt really get much of a choice

 

[theonetruewill]

im halfway to 28 lol

but ya i can run bf2 with full settings at 800x600 with no lag
and at 1024x768 with a bit of lag
so ocing the graphics card really did help

Frickin' awesome dude! Welcome to the club

7300 trubocache is crap. My advice , when you don't have the $$$ to go for a modern powerful card, don't opt for a modern crap card. get a good old one. 9800pro wouild pwn even the 7300GT. There's no competition. or get an X800 if you can. Yeah great, so a 7300 has shader model 3, but it you'll never be able to use it during games because it doesn't have the power, you'd be lagging like an X300se 32bit in FEAR.

 

[kwchang007]

Frickin' awesome dude! Welcome to the club

7300 trubocache is crap. My advice , when you don't have the $$$ to go for a modern powerful card, don't opt for a modern crap card. get a good old one. 9800pro wouild pwn even the 7300GT. There's no competition. or get an X800 if you can. Yeah great, so a 7300 has shader model 3, but it you'll never be able to use it during games because it doesn't have the power, you'd be lagging like an X300se 32bit in FEAR.

x1400 pwns 7300 go. by quite a bit to i believe. and doesn't the x1400 mobility have shader model 3?
@frankie, that is a nice replacment laptop imo maybe i'll have my die and then get one with santa rosa and dx10 j/k this is pretty good for a laptop. the c2d is quite fast, but once again, i have to complain about the low fsb....it's just not fast enough, the large cache helps, but still...way to low imo.

 

[theonetruewill]

x1400 pwns 7300 go. by quite a bit to i believe. and doesn't the x1400 mobility have shader model 3?
@frankie, that is a nice replacment laptop imo maybe i'll have my die and then get one with santa rosa and dx10 j/k this is pretty good for a laptop. the c2d is quite fast, but once again, i have to complain about the low fsb....it's just not fast enough, the large cache helps, but still...way to low imo.

Yes it does, sorry I misunderstood what he was saying. Best bet would be a X1600 mobility/Go 7600/X1800 mobility (ignore the X1700 - it's a 1600 with higher clock speeds)

Order of performance levels X600<Go 7300<X600 oc'd<X1400<X1600<X1700<Go7600<X1800.

But the X1600 is so small its able to be put into much thinner notebooks. And the X600 mobility overclocks like hell.

EDIT: Btw Chang, I just got Office 2007 to replace my old Office 2000. I'll tell you how it is when it finishes installing.

 

[kwchang007]

Yes it does, sorry I misunderstood what he was saying. Best bet would be a X1600 mobility/Go 7600/X1800 mobility (ignore the X1700 - it's a 1600 with higher clock speeds)

Order of performance levels X1600<X1700<Go7600<X1800.

But the X1600 is so small its able to be put into much thinner notebooks.

EDIT: Btw Chang, I just got Office 2007 to replace my old Office 2000. I'll tell you how it is when it finishes installing.

sounds sweet! unfortuantly for us e1505 people dell just doesn't want to offer a x1600...we will have to wait, or try to do something

 

[theonetruewill]

Wow! Office 2007 is shiny! They've cut down a lot using the ribbon style, I don't like that bit so much, but I think I'll learn to love it.

 

[kwchang007]

Wow! Office 2007 is shiny! They've cut down a lot using the ribbon style, I don't like that bit so much, but I think I'll learn to love it.

lol i like my toolbar. i even turned it back on in ie7

 

[frankie827]

just a reminder:
u cant open the word 2007 files with any version of word ealier than 2007 because 2007 saves
as .docx u hve to change it to .doc when u save

i used to have a 128mb ati mobility radeon x300 on my inspiron 6000 i alway knew integrated cards were a pos

ummmm....i went brain dead......if i can remember wat i was gonna say ill post it later

 

[theonetruewill]

just a reminder:
u cant open the word 2007 files with any version of word ealier than 2007 because 2007 saves
as .docx u hve to change it to .doc when u save

i used to have a 128mb ati mobility radeon x300 on my inspiron 6000 i alway knew integrated cards were a pos

ummmm....i went brain dead......if i can remember wat i was gonna say ill post it later

Thanks for the heads up with Word
The X300's are ony marginally better than the Integrated solutions in benches, but they win out in overall smoothness in games as they have a proper architecture. This is very basic gaming btw

 

[frankie827]

Thanks for the heads up with Word
The X300's are ony marginally better than the Integrated solutions in benches, but they win out in overall smoothness in games as they have a proper architecture. This is very basic gaming btw

well ya i guess there ok for basic gaming
but i mean i played css on almost high settings at 1280x800 with no lag
and then i was able to play bf2 on all low settings with no lag
and cod2 with....well i dont really know
but there was no lag

my old system was
inspiron 6000
1.6 ghz pentium m
512mb ram (upgraded to 1gb)
ati mobility radeon x300 128mb
60gb hdd
15.4" widescreen 16:10 1280x800
aka it was almost a complete pos after a year

ps. i dont know why i listed all of those things all i need waws the ram cpu and gfx card

 

[kwchang007]

well ya i guess there ok for basic gaming
but i mean i played css on almost high settings at 1280x800 with no lag
and then i was able to play bf2 on all low settings with no lag
and cod2 with....well i dont really know
but there was no lag

my old system was
inspiron 6000
1.6 ghz pentium m
512mb ram (upgraded to 1gb)
ati mobility radeon x300 128mb
60gb hdd
15.4" widescreen 16:10 1280x800
aka it was almost a complete pos after a year

ps. i dont know why i listed all of those things all i need waws the ram cpu and gfx card

dang i can see the whole out of date thing, lol.

 

[frankie827]

dang i can see the whole out of date thing, lol.

well hey, my 6400 is probably gonna be out of data if im lucky in a month:shadedshu
i mean with the release of the nividia mobile 8 series and the ati mobile 2k series both with dx10
and then intels 45nm processor, ugh i hate technology

 

[kwchang007]

well hey, my 6400 is probably gonna be out of data if im lucky in a month:shadedshu
i mean with the release of the nividia mobile 8 series and the ati mobile 2k series both with dx10
and then intels 45nm processor, ugh i hate technology

yeah i know how you feel man. same with my laptop, but im supposed to make it last until college :shadedshu that is not happening. i really want dell to roll out a dx10 card for the e1505 line before they retire it, but i know that's not happening. GRRRR maybe it's time to buy a decent video card for the p4 desktop (p4 feels so slow now...)