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I need help! Just tried to oc my dell laptop!

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did you even learn your lession yet,, you shouldn't over clock your laptop ever. If you want to play HL2 and Farcry, you will need a better video card anyways,, your old Dell and your new P3 laptop is not going to be able to handle it nicely... ,

So if you want to play those games,, get yourself a Desktop/laptop with the needed videocard and CPU/ram to play the game.


By the way,,Did you really overclocked your Dell laptop in the first place? What dell inspiron model is it? defualt CPU speed?
 
My older brother overclocked his laptop and removed the PCMCIA slot covers, and stuck in a blower from another laptop CPU to drag the air out the side.

It worked, but it wasn't elegant.

Basically, moral of the story, it's just never worth overclocking laptops, because they're designed to run right on the end of thermal acceptibility anyway, and you tipping that balance a bit too far can result in the CPU throttling like a mofo, or maybe your graphics card locking up or cooking some components inside.

Pointless.
 
Originally posted by: lamer
thanks for the advice folks... I bought a p3 thinkbook off ebay and it's here already!! That dell was a burning pile of parts and it stunk up my whole neighborhood!! Luckily they didn't know anything about computers. I said I spilled cola on it. I'v tinkered around with this new laptop and I don't think I can change very many of the bios settings. Is there a safe way to OC this thing without puttinng in a custom fan? Thanks
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So the big question is, how does Crying Far play on the new system??
 
I'm typing this on an overclocked laptop. I don't use it for playing crying far or 3 Doom or life half. I did it just to do it (well, that and my laptop was designed to take the heat of a desktop willamette-cored CPU, so an overclocked P4M CPU was no problem). But it really sounds like this guy is just f-ing with everyone.
 
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