Laptop overclocking adventures

[theonetruewill]

ugh i was bored today
so i opened up my dads dimension 8200 and tried to take the heatsink off
well, with the lightest touch part of the tab broke off
so i turned it back on and it still worked but it soooo slooow so i opened up the case again and i finally managed to the half of it that still clipped on to fit in place
so my problems fixed
computers hate me lol

Is it your first time doing it? (don't be offended if it wasn't - and don't feel embarrassed if it was). If it was then I suggest getting a small guide on how something works before touching it. I broke my mum's printer because I didn't do that.

If that wasn't, meh! It happens all the time. Old components, especially plastice are brittle. Secondly, IT'S A DELL! IE----> CHEAP PARTS.

 

[kwchang007]

Is it your first time doing it? (don't be offended if it wasn't - and don't feel embarrassed if it was). If it was then I suggest getting a small guide on how something works before touching it. I broke my mum's printer because I didn't do that.

If that wasn't, meh! It happens all the time. Old components, especially plastice are brittle. Secondly, IT'S A DELL! IE----> CHEAP PARTS.

my dell and me get along fine also, the coolers for dell are actually pretty decent right now (even though they have a lack of sensors, etc). they use btx, which i think is best for cpu cooling. and how'd you break a printer, lol.

ps. do you have a thing for asian chicks?

 

[theonetruewill]

my dell and me get along fine also, the coolers for dell are actually pretty decent right now (even though they have a lack of sensors, etc). they use btx, which i think is best for cpu cooling. and how'd you break a printer, lol.

ps. do you have a thing for asian chicks?

IN answer to your first statement. As a general rule Dell's have ineffective/bad/non-exitant cooling. Recently that might have changed in the US, but not here. IN the UK it is truly appalling. My mate (has an XPS desktop) has temps in the very high 50's to high 60's. He's got an E6400...... at stock speeds. For a performance machine that's just shoddy.

In answer to your question; my friends have often asked that and I deny it. But let's put it this way:
First, why do you think I'm not asian myself. Many chinese friends of mine have used english names so that lesser english folk can actually pronounce their names.

Secondly, my first crush/love (not sure on the second word- ...liked her for 3-4yrs and hoping I still don't. I thought about her every single hour, of every waking day and no that's not an exaggeration. Now it'd more like daily, since I basically went on a rebound with her best friend-....damn that was detailed) was Korean. Hottest girl I've ever seen and she is truly gorgeous.

Thirdly, In most cases I find English girl's boring and bland. Curly Brunette's are nice but blonde's are boring. Asian girls (imo) don't look boring.

Fourthly, asian girl's are hot.

Fifthly, Some are EXTREMELY hot (my fricking avatar...... ).

Sixthly, I have no idea why I've said all of this so openly on a public forum.

Lastly. Of course I don't have a thing......................................

Oh and oops. Printer + screwdriver + 1a 3yr (EDIT: 13yr) old thinking he was being clever is not a good combination. Especially when's he's balanced a coke can on the printer as well.

 

[kwchang007]

IN answer to your first statement. As a general rule Dell's have ineffective/bad/non-exitant cooling. Recently that might have changed in the US, but not here. IN the UK it is truly appalling. My mate (has an XPS desktop) has temps in the very high 50's to high 60's. He's got an E6400...... at stock speeds. For a performance machine that's just shoddy.

In answer to your question; my friends have often asked that and I deny it. But let's put it this way:
First, why do you think I'm not asian myself. Many chinese friends of mine have used english names so that lesser english folk can actually pronounce their names.

Secondly, my first crush/love (not sure on the second word- ...liked her for 3-4yrs and hoping I still don't. I thought about her every single hour, of every waking day and no that's not an exaggeration. Now it'd more like daily, since I basically went on a rebound with her best friend-....damn that was detailed) was Korean. Hottest girl I've ever seen and she is truly gorgeous.

Thirdly, In most cases I find English girl's boring and bland. Curly Brunette's are nice but blonde's are boring. Asian girls (imo) don't look boring.

Fourthly, asian girl's are hot.

Fifthly, Some are EXTREMELY hot (my fricking avatar...... ).

Sixthly, I have no idea why I've said all of this so openly on a public forum.

Lastly. Of course I don't......................................

Oh and oops. Printer + screwdriver + 1a 3yr old thinking he was being clever is not a good combination. Especially when's he's balanced a coke can on the printer as well.

ahhhh i see now asian girls are hot....too bad i don't know any my age . dang....we to spill out your whole life...of course if you want to know mine, you know where to look. ahh 3yr old, nvm i thought you meant like...now, lol. so wait, are you asian? lol, im obviously asian (or am i not....)

 

[theonetruewill]

ahhhh i see now asian girls are hot....too bad i don't know any my age . dang....we to spill out your whole life...of course if you want to know mine, you know where to look. ahh 3yr old, nvm i thought you meant like...now, lol. so wait, are you asian? lol, im obviously asian (or am i not....)

It was supposed to say 13yr old , 3yrs ago....never forgiven. And no, I'm not asian, just thought I'd throw that in there. I'm as white as snow. My skin literally refuses to tan. My skin says no fricking way man! And promptly replies with an angry red flare.

 

[kwchang007]

It was supposed to say 13yr old , 3yrs ago....never forgiven. And no, I'm not asian, just thought I'd throw that in there. I'm as white as scow. NO literally I refuse to tan. My skin says no fricking way man! And promptly replies with an angry red flare.

lol i see 13 yrs old. lol no tanning. i usually don't get burnned dude i hate 3 way convos

 

[frankie827]

i tan easily cuz im italian..........well 1/2 italian
but ya it was my first
but i fixed
i was able to take the heat sink and the processor this time
and guess what

IT STILL WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!
w00t

 

[theonetruewill]

i tan easily cuz im italian..........well 1/2 italian
but ya it was my first
but i fixed
i was able to take the heat sink and the processor this time
and guess what

IT STILL WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!
w00t

Good one mate. The Inetl heatsinks are quite hard to remove and replace if you've never done it before. But next time will be much easier. Good on you for having a go - it's the only way we learn. You lucky tanning &^$*%*&%!

 

[kwchang007]

Good one mate. The Inetl heatsinks are quite hard to remove and replace if you've never done it before. But next time will be much easier. Good on you for having a go - it's the only way we learn. You lucky tanning &^$*%*&%!

lol. they are? i never knew that.....ahhh noooo 90 F and my comp is at 43 C!!!!! grrr i hate hot weather

 

[theonetruewill]

lol. they are? i never knew that.....ahhh noooo 90 F and my comp is at 43 C!!!!! grrr i hate hot weather

The AMD HSF system is much easier, simple arm bracket. If you've never done it before, the pressure needed to replace the intel HSF can be quite disconcerting.

 

[kwchang007]

The AMD HSF system is much easier, simple arm bracket. If you've never done it before, the pressure needed to replace the intel HSF can be quite disconcerting.

well putting on a intel hsf...yeah....pain in the ass. amd hsf is arm bracket? lucky. todays my bday!!!! can't wait to see what im getting. hopefully it's either something good (i know, very specific) or a bunch of money

 

[theonetruewill]

bump

 

[bakakas]

Hello im a new laptop user from Greece. My laptop is an acer aspire 5100 specs
turion 64x2 tl-52 1.6
ati radeon x1300
2gb ram
Its the same laptop that mentioned at page 9 from user dlzerocool.
I tried to overclock the video card and everything went as mentioned, but when i tried to overclock the cpu i always get resets. even a raise of 50 mhz resets the laptop after a few minutes. I saw a difference between 2 laptops. When i open glock gen the ram clock shows 319.86 at 1.6 ghz. If iwant to go to 1.7 the ram clock goes to 339.82. dlzerocool's laptop at 1.9 ghz shows only 317.91 does this means something?

 

[theonetruewill]

Hello im a new laptop user from Greece. My laptop is an acer aspire 5100 specs
turion 64x2 tl-52 1.6
ati radeon x1300
2gb ram
Its the same laptop that mentioned at page 9 from user dlzerocool.
I tried to overclock the video card and everything went as mentioned, but when i tried to overclock the cpu i always get resets. even a raise of 50 mhz resets the laptop after a few minutes. I saw a difference between 2 laptops. When i open glock gen the ram clock shows 319.86 at 1.6 ghz. If iwant to go to 1.7 the ram clock goes to 339.82. dlzerocool's laptop at 1.9 ghz shows only 317.91 does this means something?

I am just about to add the next parts of my guide on page 1. Please see if any of the other methods work for you. If not, post back

 

[theonetruewill]

If anyone spots any errors with the new guides or layout, please PM me.

 

[nflesher87]

ok I love that the guy added the info on how to mod the drivers for my macbook pro so I can use ATITool but the instructions are horrible lol, and doesn't it even work with xp? the mod dl site's instructions are only for vista...I installed the mod files and ran the setup but still no readings in atitool .24

 

[theonetruewill]

ok I love that the guy added the info on how to mod the drivers for my macbook pro so I can use ATITool but the instructions are horrible lol, and doesn't it even work with xp? the mod dl site's instructions are only for vista...I installed the mod files and ran the setup but still no readings in atitool .24

Yeah, I've got an edited version of that, thats been rewritten by me. Sorry, at a mate's house at the moment on the wrong computer so I'll post it when I get home

 

[nflesher87]

Yeah, I've got an edited version of that, thats been rewritten by me. Sorry, at a mate's house at the moment on the wrong computer so I'll post it when I get home

haha k thanks man sounds good

 

[DaJMasta]

Stumbled across this thread after playing with my lappy's clock a fair bit last year.


It was a little challenging, I have an Averatech 3200 series Athlon XP-M based laptop. KM400 based chipset with integrated UniChrome (non pro), XP-M 2000+, and 512MB DDR333 at CAS2.5.

Since I have fully disassembled and reassembled the machine to upgrade the cooling (to AS5 paste, but given the condition of the s*** they used, it helped a lot.) and to switch in a new wireless card and things. I also ended up repainting the machine and finding the clock gen chip on the board to OC it.

I haven't done much in a while, but I managed to get the FSB including the RAM up 14MHz (tiny increase, but made a large difference in performance because of extreme memory bandwidth problems) and managed to get the 'vpu' core clock up more than 25% (to 165MHz or something).

Sadly, the gaming performance is still fairly abysmal, I managed to get about 10003dmarks in 3d mark 01 (yes, not a typo, 01. Also, it fails the pixel shader benchmark because of no hardware support). Overclocking the graphics core got almost 100 points, but OCing the fsb by only 14MHz got a much better 150 point gain. Putting to overall score at 1280 or so.

I used CPUFSB to OC the main clock and PowerStrip to OC the graphics.

 

[nflesher87]

Yeah, I've got an edited version of that, thats been rewritten by me. Sorry, at a mate's house at the moment on the wrong computer so I'll post it when I get home

getting that edited version up any time soon?

 

[regan1985]

ive just got a samsung v20 with 2.0ghz p4 1x128 ,1x256 133ram and a 5400rpm 20gb hard drive, all i need to do is fix the vga cable that goes to the lcd screen,anyone done this?
im also thinking of putting a 2.8ghz p4 in and taking out the p4m cpu, not sure what the temps are going to be like???

plus what would be better in performance taking out the 128 ram and putting a 512 stick in or a 80gb 7200rpm drive?

 

[nflesher87]

ive just got a samsung v20 with 2.0ghz p4 1x128 ,1x256 133ram and a 5400rpm 20gb hard drive, all i need to do is fix the vga cable that goes to the lcd screen,anyone done this?
im also thinking of putting a 2.8ghz p4 in and taking out the p4m cpu, not sure what the temps are going to be like???

plus what would be better in performance taking out the 128 ram and putting a 512 stick in or a 80gb 7200rpm drive?

I'd say to the second question do either of these two options:
-upgrade to dual channel ram (not add a 512)
-or put in a 7200 HD (the only drawback here would be battery use)

 

[theonetruewill]

getting that edited version up any time soon?

Wait up! I only just got back - Impatient people these days!
Don't worry it's up and running. Also check out the Laptop OC' addition to Kursah's guide.

 

[theonetruewill]

I'd say to the second question do either of these two options:
-upgrade to dual channel ram (not add a 512)
-or put in a 7200 HD (the only drawback here would be battery use)

1. 7200rpm HDD's are prohibitively expensive.
2. Dual Channel 2GB (2x1GB) should be what you're aiming for.
3. You are going to need to be able to control the fan speed on that for a new P4.
4. Make sure you put AC5 on the CPU when you upgrade.
5. Think about upgrading the fan(s) system(s).

 

[nflesher87]

Wait up! I only just got back - Impatient people these days!
Don't worry it's up and running. Also check out the Laptop OC' addition to Kursah's guide.

haha sorry I didn't realize you were actually staying with your friend for a while