Core 2 Duo 1.6 notebook overclock?

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nintari

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I will be getting a shiney new notebook within the next few days and I am incredibly excited!

While I know the Core 2 Duo 1.6 is pretty peppy... I started to think... I wonder if there is a way to overclock this puppy? :D

I know chances are slim to none that the bios will have any options to do this.... but I was wondering if anything else can be done pin mods or something....

Here is the notebook:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8223282&st=dv9235nr&type=product&id=1166840116155

I know it's an HP Pavillion, but I have seen a few of these models and was impressed. Plus this was the only notebook that met all the requirements for what we needed @ work (this thing has a ATSC tuner with it) Plus the price is incredible for what is in it!

First thing that will be done though is all the HP bloatware will promptly be pulled off!
 
No, you can't really overclock laptops. However, download NHC (Notebook Hardware Control) and start undervolting. I have the same 1.66GHz T5500, and it runs the lowest voltage (0.95V) all the way up to the top speed! :)
 
mavalpha said:
No, you can't really overclock laptops. However, download NHC (Notebook Hardware Control) and start undervolting. I have the same 1.66GHz T5500, and it runs the lowest voltage (0.95V) all the way up to the top speed! :)
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cpu's are not the same. his is t5200, although if t5500 is also 533fsb, this may apply to you.


You can explore into bsel manipulation and try to see what happens when you try to run the cpu at 166fsb. You'd get an effective 2ghz out of it (12x133=1600. 12x166=2000). However, I've never done this with a merom; only dothan from 100 to 133. I would have imagined that they'd result the same way, but I remember reading about people trying a similar mod on yonahs and while it did raise fsb, the newer eist/c1e forced cpu to stick to lowest multiplier, negating any uses.
 
BillParrish said:
Buy an extra battery, or three :p
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nah :) when I overclocked my dothan from 1.5 to 2.0, I was also able to drop vcore from 1.34 load to 1.18 and idle vcore from 0.988 to 0.700. even with the overclock, I gained about 15 minutes ;)
 
kind of figured as much :D but ya never know lol

I cant wait to get this thing! I'm kinda leary since it is vista, need to wait for the new nvidia drivers so MCE will work right with Live TV and HDTV though.

see my current system is a X2 4400+, 2GB Mem, 160GB SATA, DVD Burner, 7600GT, MCE 150 Tuner, DTA 151 HDTV Tuner, MCE 2005 (tried vista but waiting on better video and audio drivers).... This laptop should be pretty close to my main rig lol
 
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