Laptop overclocking adventures

[kwchang007]

I didn't even download crysis....lol.

 

[Fizban]

Aye, the desktop makes me jealous... The laptop, not so much mostly because mine has the same amount of RAM, but faster and a faster processor with the same GPU. Though if he can overclock his that might make me jealous again, as my damned Alienware also has a "secret" PLL, probably because the Dells do....

 

[N-Gen]

I outrun you with my m9750 ...though it has like a week and a half left at alienware...I just phoned this morning and they said they're diagnosing it.

 

[kwchang007]

I outrun you with my m9750 ...though it has like a week and a half left at alienware...I just phoned this morning and they said they're diagnosing it.

I can out run you with my....my....uhh shit....uhh phone . Well kidding (durh) but nice laptop you got there. What's the size? 17" right?

 

[frankie827]

Aye, the desktop makes me jealous... The laptop, not so much mostly because mine has the same amount of RAM, but faster and a faster processor with the same GPU. Though if he can overclock his that might make me jealous again, as my damned Alienware also has a "secret" PLL, probably because the Dells do....

ive already tried overclocking it lol
dell also has a hidden PLL
btw alienware is owned by dell

 

[N-Gen]

I can out run you with my....my....uhh shit....uhh phone . Well kidding (durh) but nice laptop you got there. What's the size? 17" right?

17" wide. I got the 1440 x 900 and run almost everything at that definition. It's very nice...only drawbacks it has is that it's heavy and heats up easily....and battery life...the max i can run it is on power save for 2 straight hours and when it's on that mode I had monitored it underclocks the gpu from 575/700 to around 200/500 and runs the cores down to 1GHz.

 

[kwchang007]

17" wide. I got the 1440 x 900 and run almost everything at that definition. It's very nice...only drawbacks it has is that it's heavy and heats up easily....and battery life...the max i can run it is on power save for 2 straight hours and when it's on that mode I had monitored it underclocks the gpu from 575/700 to around 200/500 and runs the cores down to 1GHz.

Did you get the larger battery?

 

[N-Gen]

stock 6450mAh 14.8v, it's supply block runs 185w i believe on 19v dc 9amps

edit: From the UK there's no battery option so had to stick with the only one they give out.

 

[kwchang007]

stock 6450mAh 14.8v, it's supply block runs 185w i believe on 19v dc 9amps

edit: From the UK there's no battery option so had to stick with the only one they give out.

Oh well you probably have a bigger batt cause its a big laptop. I got a dinky 6 cell so my much less powerful laptop at full power savings can only pull like 2:10

 

[N-Gen]

Well to add to that mine is supposed to be a desktop replacement and most reviews says its best not to be unplugged...it's heavy to carry around too so I wouldn't bother that much..I'm just space restricted.

 

[kwchang007]

Well to add to that mine is supposed to be a desktop replacement and most reviews says its best not to be unplugged...it's heavy to carry around too so I wouldn't bother that much..I'm just space restricted.

That's right. You should've built a comp around a mini-atx (small form factor pc). But that's still a powerful laptop.

 

[N-Gen]

I also concentrated on the fact i've been making electronica for the past 2 years now and though I'd move on to live performances so it would be of great use to me.

 

[N-Gen]

And I'm thinking soon if prices drop of getting a 4gb OCZ ram kit.

 

[kwchang007]

I also concentrated on the fact i've been making electronica for the past 2 years now and though I'd move on to live performances so it would be of great use to me.

Ohhh laptop is defiantly better than small pc then.

 

[N-Gen]

It's also good at sound processing before I sent it for RMA (should be back in a week now) I tested it on some production software. Never missed a wave on full bufferin or low buffering. Which in music production low buffers give more frequent usage reads (so practically at low its best but gives more underruns).

 

[theonetruewill]

I didn't even download crysis....lol.

When it comes down to it, and you guys know how much I'm a fan of laptops, the gaming desktop will always be better option to the gaming laptop until laptops completely replace them. Even then I'm sure there will merely be a Laptop/Desktop and separate Laptops. Just try the brute power of a Desktop's 'bigger-is-better' parts and you can see the difference.

 

[kwchang007]

When it comes down to it, and you guys know how much I'm a fan of laptops, the gaming desktop will always be better option to the gaming laptop until laptops completely replace them. Even then I'm sure there will merely be a Laptop/Desktop and separate Laptops. Just try the brute power of a Desktop's 'bigger-is-better' parts and you can see the difference.

Yeah no doubt, but thing is I really wanted the portability. Anyways, my laptop is enough for my gaming...plus I really wanna drive lol.

 

[theonetruewill]

Yeah no doubt, but thing is I really wanted the portability. Anyways, my laptop is enough for my gaming...plus I really wanna drive lol.

And that's why I got me one of these...

 

[kwchang007]

And that's why I got me one of these...

Yeah my parents probably wouldnt let me get one of those

 

[theonetruewill]

Yeah my parents probably wouldnt let me get one of those

Yuh, there is that... Your tried CoD4 yet? Demo was awesome. Also I tried it @ 800x600 to check for you and it still looked good, so you could definitely run it.

 

[N-Gen]

I'm so gonna play too many games when the notebook is back..about 7 work days left i think..or 5...cos they say 15 days >.<

 

[Fizban]

ive already tried overclocking it lol
dell also has a hidden PLL
btw alienware is owned by dell

I'm aware of that, hence the:

my damned Alienware also has a "secret" PLL, probably because the Dells do....

 

[Fizban]

And N-Gen if you find a way to overclock that 9750 I'd love you... *chuckle* Mine's the 5550 but should be able to use any technique that'd work on yours.

 

[N-Gen]

The olnly differences I see between m5550 and m9750 is the Video Card and Screen Size so everything running on m5550 will run on m9750 vice versa. When it's back (I hope this week) I'll be going through various attempts of overclocking. I am sure the Video Card is clockable as I have tried that but had no high stable results yet. My real goal is to overclock the CPU of which we both oen the T7200.

 

[Superfly_fr]

wow 0, that's impressive. mine sits around 42-44 idle....of course if that's too hot i just turn up the fans. i doubt my parents would get me an external cooler, expsically since i had to get a sub $1000 laptop. im going to try putting the laptop on 4 cd cases and see if my hdd is cooler.

I know you here are *geeks* or so ... but :
My HP7129EA was gettin hot as a toaster and noisy as a reactor, and perfs went down-down-down, up to crash.
So I thought 4 CDs case will do the trick; they did, partially.
But I only became happy the day I opened and cleaned up the whole fan area (I dont mean just blowin or aspiring); open it up, unscrew clean it up ... make it shine !
The difference is huge.

Sry for the froggy english.