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Help Overclocking no bios features

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DarkElite

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Hi, I have a laptop that uses a standard Celeron 2.0 Northwood cpu that fits in a regular mPGA 478 socket. So as it being a regular desktop processor, I wondered if it would be easy to overclock, but unluckily, I have dell bios :confused: , which has absolutly no chipset, cpu, ram, or motherboard features or options at all. Also its a laptop motherboard, so it doesnt have any jumpers to change or anything. Does anyone know a way to overclock? maybe a bios setting hack program or such. Also, I have a dell motherboard, and its not listed in SoftFSB or programs like that. Well, I hope theres some way to do this! Thanks.:)
 
First of all, its a Dell, so you cant overclock it. No chance in hell. Your lucky the thing runs well at all.

Second of all, its a laptop. You can't overclock laptops. Simple as that. Even if you could, it would be a bad idea because of the already high high heat that a laptop is unable to deal with properly.

Leave well enough alone and let it die on its own.
 
Originally posted by OneMadPoptart
First of all, its a Dell, so you cant overclock it. No chance in hell. Your lucky the thing runs well at all.

Second of all, its a laptop. You can't overclock laptops. Simple as that. Even if you could, it would be a bad idea because of the already high high heat that a laptop is unable to deal with properly.

Leave well enough alone and let it die on its own.
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There might be a hacked BIOS for it. I seriously doubt it, though.
 
Typically the motherboards on laptops use dipswitches. You CAN overclock a laptop. You have to do your research though. Your OC options will be limited. But if you take two notebooks in the same model family and they use the same board, you should be able to configure the dip switches to the higher processor setting.

The assumes three things. One is that the chip will do it. Second is that you have the skills to disassemble the laptop and not screw it up, and of course put it back together. The final assumption is that the motherboard does use dip switches instead of being autoconfigured.

This varies by manufacturer. Of course heat IS an issue. So don't go wild with it. Even if it lets you set it that way.
 
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