Insprion 6000 Celeron 1.5Ghz -> 2.0Ghz Thread

[doogz_4v]

Hello all.

I recently purchased an Inspiron 6000 with the Celeron 1.5Ghz processor. I wanted to get something as cheap as humanly possible and succeeded. The laptop came with 256MB PC3200 DDR2 ram, which can't be ran at PC4200 (133mhz) speeds. I bought another 256MB PC4200 so-dimm on eBay so I could try my luck at overclocking this beast.

I did the pin trick http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=80879 and applied arctic silver while I had the heatsink and everything off. Booted up like a champ at 2.0Ghz. Idle temps are 38C, full load is 55C. Stock voltage.

Prime 95 stress testing has been successful so far.

Stock Benchmarks under SiSandra:
CPU Arith Bench: 6406 (2064/2642)
CPU Multimedia: 14152 it/s 15580 it/s

Overclocked Numbers:
CPU Arith Bench: 8553 (2761/3542)
CPU Multimedia: 18929 it/s 20839 it/s

Here's a screenshot for anyone interested:

Specs are:

1 Inspiron 6000,Intel Celeron M Processor 370 (1.50GHz/1MB Cache/400MHz FSB)
1 15.4 inch WXGA LCD Panel for Inspiron 6000
1 256MB, Shared DDR2,400MHz 1 Dimm, Inspiron 6000
1 Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 9000 Graphics, forInspiron 6000 UMA
1 40GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive for Inspiron 6000
1 24X Combo DVD/CD-RW for Inspiron 6000
1 Dell Wireless 1370 Internal Wireless (802.11b/g, 54Mbps) for Inspiron 6000 Celeron

Total after a $750 off coupon, a $50 Coupon sent with my last Dell bill, and the 2% DPS coupon was $798. After that, I cancelled the extended warranty I had originally ordered, and they credited my account $612. Total after tax and shipping: approx. $187

 

[ikellensbro]

They let you keep the $750 off even after you took $612 in warranties? You luck bastard
Good luck with the easy OC, Im looking at getting either a 6000 or 600m sometime this year, but I want to do some lgiht gaming above 800x600, so the Celeron configurations are out for me.

Once again, nice $187 lappy