I bought my 13 year old daugher an Inspiron 5100 with a 2.8GHz P4 and a Radeon 7500 about 4 months ago. It has always ran hot, I took it apart and made sure the heatpipe/fan was clean and cleaned up the cpu with alcohol and applied a fresh coat of artic silver. It helped some, but it still ran very warm during any gaming, surfing online it seemed to be somewhat less hot.
She plays UT and a few other games. At the native 1024 x 768 resolution with the Omega 4.5 driver it does suprisingly well at keeping the framerates up. She has to use a couple of plastic shower curtain rings to make some airspace underneath during any gaming.
I recently picked up a P4 motherboard for $19, and found another member (Karaktu) selling mobile Celerons 1.6's for $48 shipped. They are actually Northwoods with 256k L2 cache, not a true crippled Celeron. My original plan was to overclock the 1.6 on the 648 Max, but I did the pin mod for a 133MHz fsb and put it in the Inspiron 5100 @ 2133MHz.
Boy, what a suprise! It actually plays games faster. Battery life is now about 20-30 minutes better, and the external heat build up has dropped at least 10-15C.
Now I can understand better battery life and cooler operation because the 1.6 has a default 1.2v core voltage. Why is it faster at gaming? Anybody knows a 2.8GHz Northwood with 512k L2 is faster than a 2133MHz one with 256k L2.
It must have been throttling a good deal of the time when doing anything cpu and/or video intensive!
Let's thank Dell for putting a big hairy 2.8GHz desktop P4 in a laptop with a wimpy heatpipe.
Has anyone else experienced P4 throttling in a notebook?
She plays UT and a few other games. At the native 1024 x 768 resolution with the Omega 4.5 driver it does suprisingly well at keeping the framerates up. She has to use a couple of plastic shower curtain rings to make some airspace underneath during any gaming.
I recently picked up a P4 motherboard for $19, and found another member (Karaktu) selling mobile Celerons 1.6's for $48 shipped. They are actually Northwoods with 256k L2 cache, not a true crippled Celeron. My original plan was to overclock the 1.6 on the 648 Max, but I did the pin mod for a 133MHz fsb and put it in the Inspiron 5100 @ 2133MHz.
Boy, what a suprise! It actually plays games faster. Battery life is now about 20-30 minutes better, and the external heat build up has dropped at least 10-15C.
Now I can understand better battery life and cooler operation because the 1.6 has a default 1.2v core voltage. Why is it faster at gaming? Anybody knows a 2.8GHz Northwood with 512k L2 is faster than a 2133MHz one with 256k L2.
It must have been throttling a good deal of the time when doing anything cpu and/or video intensive!
Let's thank Dell for putting a big hairy 2.8GHz desktop P4 in a laptop with a wimpy heatpipe.
Has anyone else experienced P4 throttling in a notebook?
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