TinyTim

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Forgive me, i'm a complete novice when it comes to computers...

I looked into ramping up my processor yesterday to be greeted with a nice greyed out BIOS screen. From what I understand, some makes do this, but is that it? Is there no other way to change it?

Dell Inspiron packing a sh1tty Intel Celeron 520.

CREWJ

Laptops are not advised to overclock as their cooling management is poor.

Download CoreTemp and stress it to see what temps you actually get up to first. If it's too high then you can't overclock.

TinyTim

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It runs atat 1.6Ghz and to be honest I only want to raise it to 18Ghz/2.0Ghz Max

jonc

The best way to boost an old laptop is to get a solid state drive for general use. However, if you stuff that requires a lot of processor crunching, then you're best getting a more powerful laptop or desktop. Upping the clock speed is not advisable as it will generate a lot more heat that the cpu heatsink may not be able to cope causing more crashes.

CREWJ

That will be enough to significantly raise the temperature if you up the voltages. I'm not sure on this particular processor but I doubt upping the multiplier would suffice.

As said download the program I listed and see what temps you get from it when you use it.

jura11

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Overclocking laptops is possible,some sw has been available like SetFSB or ClockGen here are links

http://www.overclock.net/downloads/2...fsb-2-0-a.html

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=189

But i wouldn't recommend oveclocking laptop CPU,due they're so unstable under overclocking and cooling is biggest issue

Jura

ALi-B

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Seeing thats it that old, its probably overheating anyway and hitting the thermal throttling when under load, where basically it goes as slow as hell.

Even when the cooling fins appear to be visually clear, even the thinnest layer of dust can affect peak performance.

billythekid

My laptop gets to about 90c CPU temp!
It now sits on a cooler thingy, and runs more like 50c most of the time, but still gets upto 80c ish most days - its on for 10 hours a day though.

TinyTim

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Right, downloaded Coretemp and this is what i'm getting. Not that it means much to me...

acstua

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how to cook your nuts in double quick time