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- DeathJux, on 01/25/2009, -5/+84Overclocking a laptop seems like all sorts of stupid.
- svensksvamp, on 01/25/2009, -2/+47I'd like to overclock my clock. I'm stuck at work and I need time to go faster. Any ideas?
- fezzasus, on 01/25/2009, -1/+45I have yet to see a TechRadar article that hasn't sounded stupid.
Making an already hot, confined component even hotter without any way of improving cooling doesn't sound like a great idea. - krarks, on 01/25/2009, -1/+37Exactly. Too much heat + even more of a power drain. Not worth it.
- kvgirard, on 01/25/2009, -1/+33my laptop already runs hot enough to kill my sperm so i cant imagine making things any hotter inside can be good
- gnotDigger, on 01/25/2009, -1/+20My ultimate goal as a laptop overclocker is to have a laptop melt in my lap
- KloroFormd, on 01/25/2009, -1/+19Analog clock?
Increase the voltage with an extra battery or 10. - CalcProgrammer1, on 01/25/2009, -1/+11Notebook =/= Netbook
Learn to read or get new glasses. Notebooks include laptops that have decent graphics and may be used for games. - KloroFormd, on 01/25/2009, -1/+10Agreed. It's much easier to replace a desktop CPU if you kill it.
- deweyhewson, on 01/25/2009, -0/+8This isn't really overclocking the GPU, what it is doing is enabling the card to be used with the reference drivers so that the card operates at the frequency it was meant to, instead of the manufacturer's (usually) lower clocks. I did this on my ASUS F3KA-X4 (Radeon 2600) and it works just fine.
ATi: http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php
NVIDIA: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ - blup3ace, on 01/26/2009, -1/+9curiously overvolting is a common overclocking technique.
- ccexpert, on 01/25/2009, -1/+8Get extra cooling by drilling holes in your case >_>
- jnuffnuffnomnom, on 01/25/2009, -1/+7Yo dawg, I herd you like clocks so I put a clock inside your clock so you can work while you work
- pijiu23, on 01/25/2009, -0/+6If you find your fps has dropped by a huge margin over the months you've had your laptop simply remove the base and clean out the fans. I remember playing Titan Quest with my friends about 6 months ago and was enjoying my max'd out graphics on my ACER Aspire 7720G 17" and then suddenley my fps dropped to about 15 and it was overheating. A simple clean was in order and it solved the problem.
As for overclocking a laptop I wouldn't recommend it. All you should be doing is changing the .inf for your gfx drivers which you can get from the sites mentioned in the article. If you don't know what you are doing don't bother to overclock. - trollick, on 01/25/2009, -1/+6I overclocked my iPhone.
- spyd3rweb, on 01/26/2009, -0/+4Use the artifact scanner, run it till it gets nice and hot then increase the clock slowly until it gets an artifact, then downclock 15mhz, then scan for a couple hours to make sure its stable.
- ultrafez, on 01/26/2009, -1/+5Nah, water cooling is where it's at. Use your laptop in a fishtank, that way you keep the laptop cool and the fish warm at the same time. What could possibly go wrong?
- kiwiboyus, on 01/25/2009, -0/+3Just buy an MSI Wind, overclocking is built into the BIOS
- houndeyex, on 01/25/2009, -5/+8I've never had anything from ATI that was stable.
- mrBitch, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2That's just peachy, but an MSI Wind is a NETBOOK.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 01/25/2009, -0/+2I had to do a BIOS modification to overclock the 8600M GS in my laptop, though it's been running stable for months at 600/475 (as opposed to 500/400 stock, though nVidia says the stock speed for the 8600M GS is 600). Not sure why everyone's complaining, if you know what you're doing you can get a performance boost in games. I have a cooling pad for my laptop too to offset the heat from gaming.
- ethana2, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2All the 'cool' kids use liquid helium.
- Jhonka, on 01/25/2009, -1/+3what? RTFA. Scratch that, RTF Headline.
- iwin2000, on 01/25/2009, -1/+2This is nothing new.
- Xiata, on 01/26/2009, -1/+2Hint hint, they lowered it for a reason.
But I suppose you know better than the manufacturers... - mathieuchenot, on 01/25/2009, -1/+2thanks for this tips :)
- inactive, on 01/26/2009, -1/+2Meh. Overclocking a netbook is like putting a snail on speed. In the end, its still pretty slow and it will just end up dying a lot quicker.
Anyways, if you need to overclock your netbook, then you probably bought it for the wrong reasons. So in my opinion, when it comes to netbooks, go for the best price/aesthetic combo, since their specs are all basically the same.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
That, in my opinion, is the best bang for your buck. Great looking, as about as good as you can get with the specs and at a pretty fair price. The only downside is the 2 cell polymer, which translates to around 3.5 hours on high settings. In power saver mode you can reach around half an hour to an hour more. So not as good as some of those 7 hour netbooks, but 3.5 is still pretty acceptable.
The higher-end model Wind gets around 4.5 hours by the way. So it pretty much comes down to whether you want a lil bit more juice or a bit of a better looking netbook. That, or you could spring for one of the 7-hour battery life models. But meh, I'm never away from a power source when on my netbook for more than a few hours at a time, so I generally go for best aesthetics. - KloroFormd, on 01/25/2009, -2/+3I've never had ATI Tool find a maximum that was stable.
- firext0l, on 01/26/2009, -1/+2@houndeyex, user error is a bitch.
- NunoPCruz, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1The fact that this is in the first page strikes me. How can you call this a guide? About overclocking or about overwasting anyone's time? I imagine the immense number of overclockers created from this article. By now they should be at least 450.
- shadowblade989, on 01/25/2009, -1/+2Thats exactly what I need, my laptop to be even hotter.
- firext0l, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1Horrible analogies, Zephik. Horrible.
Better analogy would be water through a hose, and increasing the pressure(amps), while also increasing flow(volts). It's not a problem unless you exceed the design capabilities of the hose. In microelectronics you'd have to increase voltage to a level most likely unsupported by the BIOS/CPU.
This would not be proper over-clocking.
Even so, if you neglect the thermal results and overheating occurs the processor will very likely turn itself off before any physical damage occurs. This would still be doing it improperly.
Microprocessors are designed to run pretty much indefinitely. Even if there is a few percentage points decrease it doesn't affect the useful life expectancy because we're talking a few years out of every hundred years. Basically, the processor will still work after you're dead, and your children's children's children (you got the point, I hope) are also dead.
On the other hand, your PSU supplying irregular current will kill your system faster than a PSU with stable current and being extremely(yet still stable) over-clocked. - firext0l, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1You did it wrong.
- KloroFormd, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1@houndeyex:
My Radeon 4850 is pretty damn stable . First ATI card I ever owned, and it will not be the last if they keep it up.
GPU: 735MHz (stock 625)
GDDR3: 1050MHz (stock 993)
@spyd3rweb:
I was talking about the feature that automatically finds the maximum clocks. It'll either keep going, not detecting the ***** of artifacts it's creating, or end up stopping at a clock that artifacts at least once a minute claiming it's stable. - Ghiren, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1Exactly! Who would trust anything like that anywhere near their lap?
- zmigliozzi, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1And melt off your nuts! let alone having to always keep it plugged in.
- t4m5t3r, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1firstly if you are a gamer, you wont be using a laptop , you;d need to replace your whole laptop just to play the latest games as even most discrete GPU are still part of the motherboard.
Also, if you own a dell with a Nvidia GPU (manufactured before sep 2008), and you do this? you'd best be in warranty as your GPU WILL burn out as Nvidia used inferior material, and hense it cant take the heat!
http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/arc ...
(they dont have all effected systems listed here, and also this is not a Dell only problem, other manufacturers have also shipped these although not admitted it)
happy over clocking!! lol - inactive, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1Hmmm, not sure what you are talking about exactly, so I'll address both possibilities.
Battery Life - This is what I was talking about. It takes more juice to pump out more power, therefore your battery will run dead quicker.
Product Life Expectancy - The more electricity you pump into something, the hotter it will get, thus the shorter the life expectancy it will have. Heat isn't the only reason responsible for shorter life expectancies in electronic products, but its the main one from what I know. If you think of electricity as water, then a fast flowing river would cut through rock quicker than a stream would, wouldn't it? or you can think of it like a car if you want. The more you press the pedal to the medal, the more gas you will burn and the harder the engine will have to work. etc etc etc. - rdldr1, on 01/25/2009, -1/+1No hope for crappy integrated Intel graphics. :(
I used to have a gaming laptop. I overclocked the ***** out of the graphics card. Of course the laptop got ridiculously hot, and started to get artifacts on the screen.
Now I just stick to gaming on my desktop. - Degriz, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1What a bloody stupid thing to do. Maybe, just maybe 4-10% more performance MAX, lol if that, and run the risk of frying yr nice lappy.
Maybe these idiots should try overclocking their brains as they are obviously not getting the required performance from them. - bytor4232, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1You could always take up Retro gaming, Atari 2600, SNES, and Genesis all run like a champ on my Acer Aspire 5315 (Gemstone, Celeron 1.5). Nothing like rocking out Defender with an modern Logitec analog controler ;)
- noumuon, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1when the cpu changes clock speed on a notebook, it's adjusting the multiplier. this leaves plenty of room for overclocking (upping the fsb) without changing the fact that the clock speed will jump around.
- firext0l, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1I don't know what =/= is suppose to mean besides not equal... or perhaps a siamese emoticon.
But: Netbook < notebook < laptop < desktop replacement.
< means 'less than' - aserer511, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1[finishes title] and get a gamete-destroying 45 minute battery life
- Emachine, on 01/25/2009, -2/+2How to melt your notebook | TechRadar UK
/fixed - black3v1L, on 02/23/2009, -0/+0I have already overclock my laptop, but now the temperature was really high, and I get my battery have a short time. :((
- firext0l, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1Not if it has an AMD in it!
For reference... AMD doesn't like the term netbook used for netbooks that use AMD processors.
For reference... I made a funny. - firext0l, on 01/26/2009, -1/+1When properly over-clocked there is no reduction is useful life expectancy of hardware.
Just so you know. - Xiata, on 01/26/2009, -2/+2@spyd3rweb
Let's test your theory!
Remove your heat sink from your cpu, boot it up, and get back to us with the results! -
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