How to overclock a laptop

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swb32cox

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• May 6, 2012

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I have a COMPAQ NX9030 and want to speed it up.
I have max RAM and a 1.4G CPU.

how can I overclock? there are not parms accessible for
voltage in the BIOS.

 

EvilJoker

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• May 6, 2012

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Can you change the FSB-Front side bus? in the bios?" I heard of a program people use to OC laptops called "SetFSB", I dont know about it.. But if you do start to OC.. Get a program to watch you temps,(Like CoreTEMP, AID64, Anything to watch them.. laptops are not really made to OC all that well, they really dont have good cooling, Good Luck

 

txus.palacios

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• May 7, 2012

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How to overclock a laptop... and burn your laps in the way. :3.

Just, not worth it. You'll burn your battery and your laps. There's this SetFSB, yes, but really, not worth it IMHO.

 

Galgotha

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• May 7, 2012

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If Compaq is anything like Elite Books from HP they lock their BIOS for CPU and RAM adjustments. I would hate to see the results of OC a laptop the melting plastic would smell horrible

 

Janus67

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• May 7, 2012

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You likely will not be able to overclock it outside of possibly setfsb which is a windows application which would require some trial and error to setup.

 

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djscrew

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• May 8, 2012

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If you really want to speed it up go buy a copy of windows and reformat your machine.

 

txus.palacios

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• May 8, 2012

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djscrew said:

If you really want to speed it up go buy a copy of windows and reformat your machine.

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Just my two cents, I haven't still had to format my computer in the year or so I've been using it, except probably now, because I ordered a new mobo.

 

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• May 10, 2012

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Depending on the lappy you could simply replace the CPU (Some are soldered in making it impossible to replace)with a higher speed one. Check the board ratings etc to see what it will support. That would the best move barring replacing the whole unit.

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