Your Notebook Overclock?

[Sucka]

Now that there is an area to discuss Notebooks (GJ mods) is anyone else out there overclocking their notebooks? I own a A64 3000+ clocked default at 1.8GHz, i have this overclocked to 2.0GHz for daily use, and have had a max OC of 2.2GHz! My pc-2700 memory is the only thing holding me back as far as i can tell. What do you guys think?

http://www.suckasd.com/computer/notebookpi.jpg

[Arkaine23]

Nice.

I can clock XP's from 133 to 150 mhz FSB on mine, using a 1600+ right now. Have to stick with palomino cores though, for some reason the Tbreds I've tried get their SSE disabled. I haven't tried a mobile Barton yet....

Done from the bios. And a desknote (not quite a laptop) doesn't have an internal battery. I have not yet purchased the external battery for it because I haven't really needed it

[skab]

Are you doing this in the bios or using software?

[Sucka]

Clockgen Ghost (software, starts with windows).

[skab]

Yea, no luck on my gateway though. I'm still trying though!!!!

[Sucka]

Yea, no luck on my gateway though. I'm still trying though!!!!

Keep it up :p

If i could use PC-3200 in my notebook i could probably even push mine further. I'm supprised this memory can go this far even :clap:

[Fr3ak]

How much did the temps increase and how bout battery lifetime? Most notebooks are designed to run as quiet and cool as possible, so I am relly interested in how much temps increased.

[Sucka]

How much did the temps increase and how bout battery lifetime? Most notebooks are designed to run as quiet and cool as possible, so I am relly interested in how much temps increased.

Well i don't run it at overclocked on battery. My Notebook, as well as many others use dynamic clocks on the CPU, meaning on battery it will (in my case) clock the CPU down to 800MHz, and as you do more intensive applications, automatically clock the CPU up to its max. In the case of mine, it just lowers the multi and keeps the HTT the same. As for temps, i can't moitor my actual cpu temp. I really notice a temp increase with a GPU overclock rather than the CPU. When clocking it up you don't need to change the voltage, so it really doesn't get that much warmer, if any. And actually my notebook runs fairly cool, some notebooks get to hot for your lap, not the case here. Mine warms up most while on battery.

[techun]

i know this is wierd, but i have a 2 gig celeron dell laptop, is there a way i could slow it down to get more battery life? I get a little under 3 hours

all we do on this is AIM and internet

[Sucka]

Clockgen can downclock as well. just need to see if there is a version for your chipset. There's also SoftFSB and a few others that might work.

[d94]

i wonder if i can oc my p3 650?

[anothermbdusted]

how do you figure out what chipset you got in your lappy?its a dell 5150 2.8 p4 mobile ht

[Sucka]

how do you figure out what chipset you got in your lappy?its a dell 5150 2.8 p4 mobile ht

You can use CPU-Z motherboard tab. Should tell you there.

[anothermbdusted]

just found that tyvm

[samuraisam]

You should be able to run PC3200 ram in that laptop.

-Sam

[ps2cho]

My Laptop has its bios not locked...just no option for overclock, will software thru the OS be able to overclock it ?

[anothermbdusted]

check and see but i havent found anything for my dell yet that will work i got to rip it open and check some chip to see if i can find one that will work or not when i do ill post it here for all to see

[Sucka]

You should be able to run PC3200 ram in that laptop.

-Sam

Last i heard from others with my model lappy it wasn't working properly. I think it only worked in one slot or something like that, i forget. It was well documented over at www.notebookforums.com awhile back, i haven't looked into it for about 6 months now, i'll check again.

[Sucka]

My Laptop has its bios not locked...just no option for overclock, will software thru the OS be able to overclock it ?

I'm using Clockgen for mine. Just use there "ghost" and it'll start with windows.

[Sucka]

I guess i'm the only one overclocking my laptop.....silly me. I tried to get a bit more out of my laptop today, nothing exciting to report, still have the memory holding me back from what i can tell. Even using A64 tweaker, and raising the timings only gets me so far.

[Albuquerque]

I had a Compaq Armada M300 P3/600 that would do 750mhz (125FSB x 6) for about 20-30 minutes before it would overheat and lock up... It could do 660mhz (110FSB x 6) pretty reliably, but the 10% increase really wasn't worth much on a machine that had a 4mb Rage Pro PCI video card :(

I actually use CPUMSR to underclock and undervolt my current R50 with a P-M 1.4ghz processor. I run it at like 0.9v at 1ghz and it works quite nicely there, or at about 0.6v at 600mhz for watching DVD's for hours.

[techun]

how does that change your battery life?

[Arkaine23]

Lower vcore and cpu speed naturally produce less heat. And heat is a byproduct of the major power consumption going on- voltage to the CPU. So lowering the speed and voltage naturally lowers the power consumption. This is why mobile CPU's adjust their speed on the fly and decrease clockspeed (usually by lower multiplyer) when power-saving is required.

[bob_smith1492]

I made a thread in the CPU section, but I guess here is more appropriate. The sound flakes out at around +9% OC, but I just disabled it and hooked up a cheap USB sound module that sounds better anyway, so I'm good to go and quite pleased (:

System:
Sager 3790
P-M 1.7 (centrino platform, 852/855GM chipset)
gig DDR333
128MB 9700 mobility
60gig 7200 rpm

I used clockgen from CPUID - the one made for the DFI motherboard. It has the same chipset or a similar one I guess (855G), so that's probably why it works.

2155.5 seems to be the limit - +25%. I've no idea what is limiting it, but the ram's at 209MHz and all the busses are at +25% as well, so something else is failing in there.

I got 36m 26s in SuperPI 32M calculation.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=357783

[bob_smith1492]

Heh.... I guess we're the only two crazy enough to OC a lappy (:

[enduro]

I'll double post without guilt

All right, now I have a question. My laptop is in my sig. I ran CPU-Z and it shows it at 800 Mhz. I'm assuming that when it wants to conserve power or it's not doing anything it just lowers the multiplier but it is plugged in. Also, it is folding right now and so it is at 800 Mhz under full load. Is there a way to get it to run at a full 1.6?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/enduro/CPU-Z.jpg

[bob_smith1492]

I wrote something at the other place... to lazy to copy :)

[sup3rcarrx8]

That's a pretty decent overclock for a notebook with PC2700 memory! You should definitely check to see if it can support PC3200 or higher for extreme overclocking for a notebook muahha!! :thup:

[enduro]

Well, I download Clockgen but it showed my fsb as being 23 Mhz so I figured that it was supported on my motherboard...... probably for the best I guess. I want this laptop to last a long time.

[Junglebizz]

Hey Sucka, what laptop are you overclocking there? I have an Athlon 64 3000+ in my Compaq 3140 and was wondering if that Clockgen would work in it. I think OC'ing the laptop would be a good thing as long as it didn't murder the battery life.

[four4875]

with cpufsb and wcpuid... it says mine gets up to1380 mhz at 115 fsb and ram at 153 mhz.

http://www.drunkenwhippet.com/lappyoc.jpg

edit: ill ad that running full speed draws 2.5 times the power that runnin it at the lowest does, so its not wise running OC'd on battery power.

[bob_smith1492]

That's interesting... on mine, there is no noticeable difference between running OCd or not regarding battery life. I get about 3 hours playing games either way.

[Pineabs]

anyone have anyidea on how i can oc a ibook?

[four4875]

i dunno about ibooks... i know that on an emac you have to rework a few SMD resistors to pretty much change jumper settings, i would say try googling it.

a quick google gave me: http://www.lowendmac.com/bookrev/04/0611.html
id look all over that site, and
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/ibook_2001_overclock/ibook_2001_overclock.html

xlr8yourmac is a site dedicated to mac overclocking.

[moz_21]

I have a Compaq Presario 2100 (AMD) lappy, with AMI bios. Now, what I was wondering, the Powernow! 'tables' are coded into the bios right?? So, it would be possible to modify them, say 1.35v at 2000mhz instead of 1.45 (assuming it was found to be stable). Anyone a bios expert or know of anyone or any programs to make it simple??

[four4875]

you can change it within windows with a prog called CPU MSR, google it or i can throw it on my webserver for you. i use it to force multipliers while on battery power and lower voltages for power consumption.

ill edit this in a few mins to post a screenshot

http://www.drunkenwhippet.com/cpumsr.jpg

another thing.. the max voltage you can set by this is whatever th cpu is set as via bridges and whatnot, so i could modify the bridges on this duron to get more Vs if i wanted, but no need since im stuck at 12x max multi and 115 bus, i think the ram is wats hlding me back, it runs it asynch at 100 bus 133 ram, at 115 bus its to 150 ram (according to wcpuid)

[enduro]

Sweet. I downloaded the program and it appears to allow for multiplier and voltage change :D I'm just going to wait until I'm not on battery to try this program out. I had forgotten about MSR. It was big when people were modding AMD chips to get multiplier unlocks but it died out when the superlock appeared. thanks for bringing back up.

[four4875]

i knew about it form my thorton unlock attempts, and i remembered that it was designed for mobile CPUs so i checked it out on mine and it worked nicely. i also reccomend checkin out a prog called mobile meter, it shows the drain and charge rates of batteries. i have a mirror on my webserver at http://www.drunkenwhippet.com/mobilemeter.zip