Anyone ever succesfully overclocked a laptop?

[notfred]

I have a IBM 600E (p2 300) that I'd like to get another 50 mhz or so out of (want to play DVDs). Anyone got any tips?

 

[notfred]

anyone?

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Just a word of warning. You are going to have serious problems keeping that sucker cool. It being a laptop, it probably runs pretty warm already. Overclocking it, even 50mhz, is dangerous.

That said, have you opened it up. Maybe there are some jumper settings to adjust the FSB speed.

 

[sk560]

u might wanna just get a faster caleron for ur 600E. i read some posts in thinkpad forum about ppl doing it for 600 series. some of them even got a P3 working.

 

[jschuk]

Have you tried SoftFSB1.70 from H-Oda? I used that program (IBM Thinkpad 535X) to overclock my Toshiba Tecra 8000 from 366Mhz to 440Mhz. It will run all day at that speed. Of course it gets hot, but it gets hot running at normal speed too. I have felt some of the newer PIII laptops run hotter than this one.
That said, I have played DVD's on a laptop with a PII300 and 96MB of memory just fine (well usually about 3-5 hiccups during the movie). I think the software you use makes a difference.