Laptop overclocking adventures

[frankie827]

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...)

i was thinking about building a new pc
my dads 4 y/o dell 8200 is a pos lol
256mb rdram 64mb geforce 4 ti(agp) 2.53ghz p4 533mhz fsb
aka un-upgradeable....well almost

 

[kwchang007]

i was thinking about building a new pc
my dads 4 y/o dell 8200 is a pos lol
256mb rdram 64mb geforce 4 ti(agp) 2.53ghz p4 533mhz fsb
aka un-upgradeable....well almost

our dell desktop is better than that....e510, 3ghz p4 ,1 gb of sdram ddr2 553 mhz (i think, i know it's one gb) ,intel integrated graphics and a sound blaster live sound card (that's the best part)

 

[frankie827]

lol
god my moms laptop is 7 or 8 years old
it started with an 800mhz p3 128mb ram(upgraded to 256mb but i dont think windows knows that it is 256mb of ram ) 40gb hdd and it came with windows millenium edition (aka the most buggy os ever) we upgraded it to xp later on it also has a 16mb ati card not integrated it was an agp
its still working well......kinda
but i was thinking of giving my mom my 6400 and maybe getting a new laptop with either an nvidia 8 series gfx card or an ati 2k series gfx card, preferably not dell lol...i have to admit though, that there service is amazing......except when you have to attempt to talk to the indian customer support people

 

[kwchang007]

lol
god my moms laptop is 7 or 8 years old
it started with an 800mhz p3 128mb ram(upgraded to 256mb but i dont think windows knows that it is 256mb of ram ) 40gb hdd and it came with windows millenium edition (aka the most buggy os ever) we upgraded it to xp later on it also has a 16mb ati card not integrated it was an agp
its still working well......kinda
but i was thinking of giving my mom my 6400 and maybe getting a new laptop with either an nvidia 8 series gfx card or an ati 2k series gfx card, preferably not dell lol...i have to admit though, that there service is amazing......except when you have to attempt to talk to the indian customer support people

lol that's an old laptop. ahh that'd be a nice new laptop if you got it. dell's tech support sucks, they run in circles. when i had my bad hdd i had to spend 1 hour talking to them (internet chat) to get a new one, even though i already had the error codes from the dell diagnostics -_- but the online talk is much better than actually calling.

 

[theonetruewill]

Sorry guys for the delay in posting. Exams are making me very busy. Yeah, a new system would be great Frankie.

 

[frankie827]

just call me steve-o lol
apparentley some one took steve0827 so i chose frankie827

 

[theonetruewill]

just call me steve-o lol
apparentley some one took steve0827 so i chose frankie827

OK steevo. Why frankie in particular, why not steevoXXXX

 

[kwchang007]

Sorry guys for the delay in posting. Exams are making me very busy. Yeah, a new system would be great Frankie.

YAY you're back, lol. Yes a new system would be awsome. I ran my x1400 at the max stable overclock, and downloaded lost planent (dx 9 of course) and at the lowest settings id get around 15-16 fps. maybe 17-18 in some of the higher parts....i was like NOOOOOOOOOOOO x1400 sucks sooooo baddddd

 

[theonetruewill]

YAY you're back, lol. Yes a new system would be awsome. I ran my x1400 at the max stable overclock, and downloaded lost planent (dx 9 of course) and at the lowest settings id get around 15-16 fps. maybe 17-18 in some of the higher parts....i was like NOOOOOOOOOOOO x1400 sucks sooooo baddddd

Imagine what my X600se is like on Oblivion and FEAR. Yeah, now you know why I got a new system. But I still love my laptop. Never again have I been able to get such an INSANE oc on a vid card (and a laptop card at that!)! Changman we need to organise you a new system, bro, one with which you can buy cheap and oc the shell out of!
X600se mobility Radeon 256MB hypermemory
358/552MHz effective
to
477/640MHz effective

although @ present
7600GT
560/1.4Ghz effective
to
652/1.7Ghz effective (although I may have damaged my card a tad!)

 

[kwchang007]

Imagine what my X600se is like on Oblivion and FEAR. Yeah, now you know why I got a new system. But I still love my laptop. Never again have I been able to get such an INSANE oc on a vid card (and a laptop card at that!)! Changman we need to organise you a new system, bro, one with which you can buy cheap and oc the shell out of!
X600se mobility Radeon 256MB hypermemory
358/552MHz effective
to
477/640MHz effective

although @ present
7600GT
560/1.4Ghz effective
to
652/1.7Ghz effective (although I may have damaged my card a tad!)

x1400 overclocks well, about 100 mhz core and 50 mhz vram. dell said they can give me a 7900 gs go. but it doesn't fit, someone tried that, id have to cut the wired network connection and part of the northbridge heatsink.

 

[frankie827]

how much is the 7900gs?
i might be willing to take the risk......or not lol

 

[kwchang007]

how much is the 7900gs?
i might be willing to take the risk......or not lol

i think around 350 us...something like that. also, youd have to underclock to prevent overheating etc. if you give it a try, keep us updated

 

[theonetruewill]

i think around 350 us...something like that. also, youd have to underclock to prevent overheating etc. if you give it a try, keep us updated

Actually just as importantly your Motherboard wouldn't be able to give it enough voltage to be stable either as DELL laptops aren't designed to take an upgrade (as with almost all others). The BIOS would just send regular voltage, however undercolcking it would make it stable at a lower voltage (eg Powerplay on ATi mobilities - you know what I mean guys).

On a more off the topic note - ahhhhhh the weekend. NO more exams for a little whiloe, should be able to post more frequently

 

[kwchang007]

Actually just as importantly your Motherboard wouldn't be able to give it enough voltage to be stable either as DELL laptops aren't designed to take an upgrade (as with almost all others). The BIOS would just send regular voltage, however undercolcking it would make it stable at a lower voltage (eg Powerplay on ATi mobilities - you know what I mean guys).

On a more off the topic note - ahhhhhh the weekend. NO more exams for a little whiloe, should be able to post more frequently

yeahhh. i think the motherboard is basically the same as the e1705, or the routing of the channels. like the hdd is in almost the same place,, same with cpu, gfx, nb, optical, etc. it's really close, excpet the e1705 has the second vent/fan. so you would have to underclock for the heat. i bet you could flash a e1705 bios to the board and be fine, but don't take my word for it, i may be wrong.

 

[theonetruewill]

yeahhh. i think the motherboard is basically the same as the e1705, or the routing of the channels. like the hdd is in almost the same place,, same with cpu, gfx, nb, optical, etc. it's really close, excpet the e1705 has the second vent/fan. so you would have to underclock for the heat. i bet you could flash a e1705 bios to the board and be fine, but don't take my word for it, i may be wrong.

Yeah check that!

 

[kwchang007]

Yeah check that!

lol im good. i don't have the money to waste, but it's somewhere in another forum, it's like e1505 video card modding. i wonder if it would be possible to take a x1600 for something like that from an asus laptop (seeing that asus provides the base notebooks for dell). oh well, a guy can keep on wishing....

 

[nflesher87]

Hey guys guy wanted to fill you in:

I finally found a program that efficiently monitors/controls the fans of my macbook pro!
It's called smcFanControl and it's freeware
My cpu fans were only running at max 4000rpms when they're rated max is 6000! you'd think they'd crank up when temps were exceeding 90C but nooo so this program has different profiles you can set and I cranked it up to 5500 rpms which isn't too loud but keeps the cpu down to a much more manageable 70C!

 

[kwchang007]

Hey guys guy wanted to fill you in:

I finally found a program that efficiently monitors/controls the fans of my macbook pro!
It's called smcFanControl and it's freeware
My cpu fans were only running at max 4000rpms when they're rated max is 6000! you'd think they'd crank up when temps were exceeding 90C but nooo so this program has different profiles you can set and I cranked it up to 5500 rpms which isn't too loud but keeps the cpu down to a much more manageable 70C!

dang 70C on high? i get 60 C on low ~2500 rpm (that's where i keep it the whole time)

 

[nflesher87]

well the macbook pro has the thinnest design of any laptop and like no air circulation lol I checked with a "genius" at an apple store and they were like yeah it's not great to run at 90C 24/7 but that temp is normal for the core duo and macbook pro(it'll shut off at 100C) so I'm pretty content at 70C since mine's 50C idle

 

[theonetruewill]

OK thanks for the info nflesh, mind if I post the fan utilitiy on the first page? I'm going to put a list and links of useful applications. Yeah, macs are always hot, style over practicality, no offence.

 

[kwchang007]

OK thanks for the info nflesh, mind if I post the fan utilitiy on the first page? I'm going to put a list and links of useful applications. Yeah, macs are always hot, style over practicality, no offence.

too bad that's true. macs really do look nice. hey, i know this is off topic, but do you guys have something that would be a good bday gift? (about 200 american maybe 250. or i could combine with my christmas gift and get something about 500-600)

 

[nflesher87]

OK thanks for the info nflesh, mind if I post the fan utilitiy on the first page? I'm going to put a list and links of useful applications. Yeah, macs are always hot, style over practicality, no offence.

go for it, glad I could be help

 

[theonetruewill]

too bad that's true. macs really do look nice. hey, i know this is off topic, but do you guys have something that would be a good bday gift? (about 200 american maybe 250. or i could combine with my christmas gift and get something about 500-600)

What as in a present for you?

 

[kwchang007]

What as in a present for you?

yeahh, parents have no imagination lol. i was thinking ....1200 for a computer would be nice (too expensive, but one can hope)....but then i was like....they're not going to do that, i just got my laptop in like november. then i thought about a gfx card for the desktop, but that's a netburst and it would run like crap anyways. they offered a ps3 for a combined bday and christmas gift, but right now i don't want one since they don't have many good games out for it, and i have just fallen in love with computer gaming *sigh* im so picky, lol.

 

[theonetruewill]

yeahh, parents have no imagination lol. i was thinking ....1200 for a computer would be nice (too expensive, but one can hope)....but then i was like....they're not going to do that, i just got my laptop in like november. then i thought about a gfx card for the desktop, but that's a netburst and it would run like crap anyways. they offered a ps3 for a combined bday and christmas gift, but right now i don't want one since they don't have many good games out for it, and i have just fallen in love with computer gaming *sigh* im so picky, lol.

Why don't you pool your money and ask them too help fund you with a project desktop build that can be built over time. Therefore they're more likely to shell out more in the long run and you get yourself a cheap desktop. The prices you can get at the moment are ridiculously low for the performance. You could get a better one than mine for $600. I can help with the planning if you want.