i'm not gonna go for any real big increase, might try to get up to 2.0 ghz(currently have 1.7)

how do i do this, tried google for the last couple hours, and i've found out that my bus speed is 400mhz, went into bios but i dont see how i increase the bus speed anymore

10/7/2005 8:39:35 AM

terrible terrible idea

laptops are made for portability not performance

10/7/2005 8:44:48 AM

damn well cant i atleast try for a little while to just see how it is?

i got a laptop cooling pad the other week and it cools my laptop by over 10 degrees celcius

10/7/2005 8:52:19 AM

your BIOS is probably locked from changing those values. what you have - a dell or something?

10/7/2005 8:56:34 AM

yeah dell inspiron 2650

its about 3 years old now and i keep it in excellent condition...run virus stuff and spyware stuff atleast once a day and i always get the processes down to like 26-30, i'm just trying to figure out this overclocking stuff now

i guess it wont let me change it though *sigh*

10/7/2005 9:05:07 AM

even if you *were* able to all it would do is drain your battery faster and shorten the life of the laptop for what wouldn't even be a noticable gain.

On a system like that the main bottleneck is going to be the memory bandwidth(and overall lack of memory)/harddrive speed. Bumping up clock speed would be worthless.

In fact overclocking, for the most part, is just for geeks who have too much time on their hands and want to brag about their 'system'

10/7/2005 9:27:09 AM

^tell that to my P4 2.4 running at 3.4

[Edited on October 7, 2005 at 9:56 AM. Reason : ;]

10/7/2005 9:55:42 AM

shit fool, i used to have a celeron 300A@566mhzzzzzzzz!1!one

i really did, for a long time too

10/7/2005 10:04:43 AM

dang ok cant do it cause literaly i unpluged the power cord and the battery warning thing came on about 5 minutes later and said 3 percent

10/7/2005 10:31:45 AM

Quote :

"In fact overclocking, for the most part, is just for geeks who have too much time on their hands and want to brag about their 'system' "

Well in that case:

10/7/2005 11:55:31 AM

not gonna happen without an athlon64 laptop

10/7/2005 1:04:49 PM

horrible idea, you wouldnt get anything out of it other than an unstable laptop that cooks itself.

10/7/2005 2:08:59 PM