Laptop overclocking adventures

[Einlanzerous]

Ok with a fresh reset and forced controls I now have it up. At 1989MHZ. Excellent. I'm going to test out these settings. But I will be back to talk more about my overclock adventures. Though I guess just from my BIOS I am now OCing.

 

[kwchang007]

I just turned it down. I'll set it back up.

yeah....turning it to 100% should fix the problem with the clock.

 

[kwchang007]

Ok with a fresh reset and forced controls I now have it up. At 1989MHZ. Excellent. I'm going to test out these settings. But I will be back to talk more about my overclock adventures. Though I guess just from my BIOS I am now OCing.

nice!!!!!!!!!! that's like only possible in a few laptop bios, good job

 

[Einlanzerous]

Well it can't go to 100% only from 0%-15%. But yeah, so minor performance increase. Well, much greater one, but if you count that it is supposed to work at the 1.73GHZ. It's only a minor increase. Hours of C&C3 however, only had the core at 52C. Shutoff point is 95C.

 

[kwchang007]

Well it can't go to 100% only from 0%-15%. But yeah, so minor performance increase. Well, much greater one, but if you count that it is supposed to work at the 1.73GHZ. It's only a minor increase. Hours of C&C3 however, only had the core at 52C. Shutoff point is 95C.

for a laptop, any oc is good, lol. how's the benchmarks now? the x1600 should be able to really run that machine

 

[theonetruewill]

It is running Phoenix Technologies Bios. I changed that freq it made it slower. It's now at 798mhz

798 it what the pentium P 7X0 chips work at at their lowest mulipliers. Hmm, I wonder why it refuses to go up. OUt of interest do open about 4 different programs at once and keep checking the frequency of the cpu with nhc during it (hover your cursor over the icon I advise) see if it changes to 1730 approx

EDIT: ignore this comment its out of date
Geez you two reply quickly, I just left for a coke and type the reply and bang 4 more posts, lol

 

[theonetruewill]

Well it can't go to 100% only from 0%-15%. But yeah, so minor performance increase. Well, much greater one, but if you count that it is supposed to work at the 1.73GHZ. It's only a minor increase. Hours of C&C3 however, only had the core at 52C. Shutoff point is 95C.

Change the shutoff point to be 90 degrees in my opinion, its just safer. And well done, as Chang said, any oc with a laptop is an achivement, welcome to the elite dude.

 

[kwchang007]

Change the shutoff point to be 90 degrees in my opinion, its just safer. And well done, as Chang said, any oc with a laptop is an achivement, welcome to the elite dude.

haha, i have no shut off point, it's called my finger and dell decided to lock all the controls down on my computer. the good part is when there is a gfx card oc utility for vista i'll be able to oc that abouve 100 mhz, it's a really good gfx card to oc.

 

[maverick]

OCing helpp

Hey guyss.... i just recently got a laptop and I thought I'd overclock it to get decent performance on GRAW... Im using Systool right now (ive used ATI Tool on my Imac with bootcamp with GREAT results). The program is detecting the videocard (geforce go 6150 yea i kno.... its sloww) and I can oc it to atleast 600mhz core and 1000mhz memory (its running pretty hot... around 82*C -ill need some cooling tips too). I wanna try CPU ocing now but i dunno what my clockgen is... can anyone help me please?

 

[kwchang007]

Hey guyss.... i just recently got a laptop and I thought I'd overclock it to get decent performance on GRAW... Im using Systool right now (ive used ATI Tool on my Imac with bootcamp with GREAT results). The program is detecting the videocard (geforce go 6150 yea i kno.... its sloww) and I can oc it to atleast 600mhz core and 1000mhz memory (its running pretty hot... around 82*C -ill need some cooling tips too). I wanna try CPU ocing now but i dunno what my clockgen is... can anyone help me please?

hmm first we need the model of the laptop, from there usually the one will knows what it is. a gfx card running at 82 C is not good, the gfx card itself can take it, but the rest of the system is getting alot of heat from that card. if you have a dell download "i8kfangui" or if you have a different brand try speedfan. and one more thing, a gfx card oc to that point, is it artifacting? because if it is, you want to back down the clocks. and like i said above, we need the model of your laptop, preferally the whole system's specs.

 

[Einlanzerous]

If I could put a x1600 in this, I would. But yes, it's much better. I do need to benchmark it now. But I kind of want to wait till I get my other 1GB of RAM, so I can dual Channel PC2-5300 2GB, VS 1.5 with a mix.

It took NHC two restarts and me changing the Freq to accept anything else, now it's constantly 1.99GHZ.

The x700 Overheats too easily though. I can hardly push it an extra 15/20mhz (Core/Memory) before it shuts down. I assume it's overheating at least.

 

[kwchang007]

If I could put a x1600 in this, I would. But yes, it's much better. I do need to benchmark it now. But I kind of want to wait till I get my other 1GB of RAM, so I can dual Channel PC2-5300 2GB, VS 1.5 with a mix.

It took NHC two restarts and me changing the Freq to accept anything else, now it's constantly 1.99GHZ.

The x700 Overheats too easily though. I can hardly push it an extra 15/20mhz (Core/Memory) before it shuts down. I assume it's overheating at least.

not neccasrily overheating. sometimes the gfx card can only be pushed so hard before the chip itself can't take it, just like with cpu's. they can get a c2d up to 5 ghz, but you know 10 is impossible no matter what the cooling. too cool you're laptop down, try speedfan or running a fan across your laptop (or get one of the handy cooling pads that go under the laptop with fans built in) and if you really wanted to cool your laptop down, i can tell you how to undervolt the cpu, just send me a screen shot of every page of nhc (i forget what it looks like)

 

[theonetruewill]

Other things to help the cooling of a laptop is to first get a good air cleaner and blow all the dust out. Secondly, you see the vent on the side or back of your machine's cut the plastic verticals in the grills out (a bit extreme and make is look weird but if you want performance) Also what a lot of people forget with laptops is the HDD, on NHC there is a a part for increasing HDD performnce, do this, its not that much noisier.

 

[kwchang007]

Other things to help the cooling of a laptop is to first get a good air cleaner and blow all the dust out. Secondly, you see the vent on the side or back of your machine's cut the plastic verticals in the grills out (a bit extreme and make is look weird but if you want performance) Also what a lot of people forget with laptops is the HDD, on NHC there is a a part for increasing HDD performnce, do this, its not that much noisier.

how long after you get your laptop should you blow the heatsink with the stuff, i use a paper that collects dust and just run it along the grill on the bottom of the laptop. did you cut out the plastic grill? just wondering. another tip to improve hdd performance is if you have vista, if you do see the vista tips theard.

 

[maverick]

compaq

my laptop is a compaq V6110, with a turion tl 50 @ 1.6ghz, 1gb ram. There are no noticable artifacts at these temps (79*C to 82*C) in games like Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, CS:S, Need for Speed Carbon.In fact they run pretty smoothly at medium settings and a res of 1024*780. My old old comp (P4; 1GB; 128mb ati radeon 9200) was overclocked using ati tool, and when i pushed the clocks too high then i'd notice artifacts. The laptop does not have any at this point. Im kinda scared abt increasing the clox further (600mhz core & 1000mhz memory). I see that everytime the fans turn on, the temp goes down like 5-6 degrees in abt 3 seconds. I wanna kno if theres a way to keep the fans running on so i can increase the clocks (for performance gain in GRAW). Geforce go 6150 wasnt made for high performance GRAW... (does it even support it?) but i wanna try anyway... I'd buy a cooler, but getting the fans to run longer appeals more to me... (also whats the life of a fan running quadruple times what its meant to do? im assuming theyre brushless motors?)

-maverick

 

[kwchang007]

my laptop is a compaq V6110, with a turion tl 50 @ 1.6ghz, 1gb ram. There are no noticable artifacts at these temps (79*C to 82*C) in games like Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, CS:S, Need for Speed Carbon.In fact they run pretty smoothly at medium settings and a res of 1024*780. My old old comp (P4; 1GB; 128mb ati radeon 9200) was overclocked using ati tool, and when i pushed the clocks too high then i'd notice artifacts. The laptop does not have any at this point. Im kinda scared abt increasing the clox further (600mhz core & 1000mhz memory). I see that everytime the fans turn on, the temp goes down like 5-6 degrees in abt 3 seconds. I wanna kno if theres a way to keep the fans running on so i can increase the clocks (for performance gain in GRAW). Geforce go 6150 wasnt made for high performance GRAW... (does it even support it?) but i wanna try anyway... I'd buy a cooler, but getting the fans to run longer appeals more to me... (also whats the life of a fan running quadruple times what its meant to do? im assuming theyre brushless motors?)

-maverick

hmmm have you tried speedfan? too bad it's not a dell...i know a program that works with dells, but i think dells only.

 

[maverick]

ive tried speed fan... and im havin trbl setting it up. All i can see is the temperature of my gpu (which i already know from systool). It does not detect any fans on my system at all (there is one im sure thats what the whoosing sound is). Temp jus hit 82*, fans turned on and it went down to 75 in abt 15 seconds (I actually counted this time). Imma screw around with speedfan 2morro... too much homework for 2nite (dam IB)

thanks for your replies

-maverick

 

[maverick]

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[kwchang007]

ive tried speed fan... and im havin trbl setting it up. All i can see is the temperature of my gpu (which i already know from systool). It does not detect any fans on my system at all (there is one im sure thats what the whoosing sound is). Temp jus hit 82*, fans turned on and it went down to 75 in abt 15 seconds (I actually counted this time). Imma screw around with speedfan 2morro... too much homework for 2nite (dam IB)

thanks for your replies

-maverick

hahaha hw sucks, that's why im glad i finally am off for break. i believe all computers can have their fans controlled from inisde the os. oh, and how's the IB? i went to a private school because my parents didn't feel the IB was right.

 

[theonetruewill]

ive tried speed fan... and im havin trbl setting it up. All i can see is the temperature of my gpu (which i already know from systool). It does not detect any fans on my system at all (there is one im sure thats what the whoosing sound is). Temp jus hit 82*, fans turned on and it went down to 75 in abt 15 seconds (I actually counted this time). Imma screw around with speedfan 2morro... too much homework for 2nite (dam IB)

thanks for your replies

-maverick

OK those temps are too high, especially for a turion chip. To be honest you need to see if anything is clogging up that cpu HSF, but if speedfan doesn't work I don't know what will. It doesn't work on mine to, thorroughly annoying. You can try Hmonitor, and also the check the ACPI tab in NHC. If thatt still doesn't work, you're in my position.

But as you say when the fans actually go on they reduce heat damn fast! As you say about 10 degrees goes down in about 20 seconds, its amazing.

I'm gonna do the IB too, though everyone says its a tonne of work:shadedshu

 

[kwchang007]

OK those temps are too high, especially for a turion chip. To be honest you need to see if anything is clogging up that cpu HSF, but if speedfan doesn't work I don't know what will. It doesn't work on mine to, thorroughly annoying. You can try Hmonitor, and also the check the ACPI tab in NHC. If thatt still doesn't work, you're in my position.

But as you say when the fans actually go on they reduce heat damn fast! As you say about 10 degrees goes down in about 20 seconds, its amazing.

I'm gonna do the IB too, though everyone says its a tonne of work:shadedshu

i thought he meant gpu? yeah, i heard ib is alot of work, lucky me i got out of it

 

[theonetruewill]

i thought he meant gpu? yeah, i heard ib is alot of work, lucky me i got out of it

Wait after re-reading I think you're right, its the gpu he's talking about with the temps.
HOwever I'm afraid its probably cooled by the same fan, as the cpu, its to save space.

 

[kwchang007]

Wait after re-reading I think you're right, its the gpu he's talking about with the temps.
HOwever I'm afraid its probably cooled by the same fan, as the cpu, its to save space.

yeah, my laptop is built the same way. but still 75 C in a laptop is not good, it's not like a desktop with lots of space for the heat to disappate to, it's defiantly heating up the other parts of his laptop.

 

[maverick]

yea ur rightt... the laptops awfully warm all the time... and 75*C is when its at its coolest... 82 is more normal, and then the fans kick in. When i just turn it on it hovers at about 60, 65 and then it jumps up again. The HDD is VERY VERY warm... like... think hot water tap. I think I'll reduce the clocks back to their recommended settings (425mhz core, 600 mhz mem) and then keep trying with speedfan and (HMonitor was it?). Its a shame tho chaos theory had like 35-40 fps with Shader 3.0 and half the highest settings... oh well

thanx for ur replies guys

-maverick

 

[theonetruewill]

yea ur rightt... the laptops awfully warm all the time... and 75*C is when its at its coolest... 82 is more normal, and then the fans kick in. When i just turn it on it hovers at about 60, 65 and then it jumps up again. The HDD is VERY VERY warm... like... think hot water tap. I think I'll reduce the clocks back to their recommended settings (425mhz core, 600 mhz mem) and then keep trying with speedfan and (HMonitor was it?). Its a shame tho chaos theory had like 35-40 fps with Shader 3.0 and half the highest settings... oh well

thanx for ur replies guys

-maverick

Yeah real sorry maverick but those temps are bloody high.

For examply mine after a defrag and 2 hours of BF2142 are...
Cpu: 54 (@2.2)
HDD: 30 (@max performance)

But then I have one hell of a cooling pad.