9300 overclocking help

Ayah

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I bought a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a 1.7- (something like that) GHz P-M, 512mb ddr2 ram and a 6800 Go.

I've already checked in the bios for clockspeed options but there don't seem to be any. Anyone know of a way to crank up the speed on this slow P-M?

-> Overclocking the 6800 was easy.
 

Jaihahih

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Originally posted by: Ayah
I bought a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a 1.7- (something like that) GHz P-M, 512mb ddr2 ram and a 6800 Go.

I've already checked in the bios for clockspeed options but there don't seem to be any. Anyone know of a way to crank up the speed on this slow P-M?

-> Overclocking the 6800 was easy.

Did you get a 7200 rpm HD?
 

Ayah

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Originally posted by: Jaihahih
Originally posted by: Ayah
I bought a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a 1.7- (something like that) GHz P-M, 512mb ddr2 ram and a 6800 Go.

I've already checked in the bios for clockspeed options but there don't seem to be any. Anyone know of a way to crank up the speed on this slow P-M?

-> Overclocking the 6800 was easy.

Did you get a 7200 rpm HD?

No I did not. I got a 60GB 5400rpm drive.
I only paid 1000 cdn though.
 

overst33r

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Originally posted by: Ayah
Originally posted by: Jaihahih
Originally posted by: Ayah
I bought a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a 1.7- (something like that) GHz P-M, 512mb ddr2 ram and a 6800 Go.

I've already checked in the bios for clockspeed options but there don't seem to be any. Anyone know of a way to crank up the speed on this slow P-M?

-> Overclocking the 6800 was easy.

Did you get a 7200 rpm HD?

No I did not. I got a 60GB 5400rpm drive.
I only paid 1000 cdn though.

I would first add another 1GB of ram, then mess with the proc. If its a 400FSB chip you can use clockgen. If its a 533FSB, then i think your only choice is to buy a 400FSB 1.6ghz and pin mod that sucker to 2.13 533FSB. As another suggested there are very nice guides with pics at notebookforums.com that show all the steps required.
 

Ayah

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Arg. I was hoping that maybe there was a tweaked bios or program that I could soft-overclock with.

Unfortunately, I'm stuck on a 533.

I was planning on picking up one or two 1GB sticks of Kingston sodimms.
 

fbrdphreak

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You cannot overclock a 915 chipset. You can't access the multiplier and currently there is no software (to my knowledge) that allows you to change the 915's FSB.

Only option is to buy a 400MHz FSB chip (1.6-1.7 works best) and do the pin mod on it.