New Celeron 2.2. How high?

[Pyromania42]

Hey,

just got me a laptop (Toshiba Satellite A15-S157) with a 2.2GHz Celeron. 2 questions:

- do people know if this is already a Northwood?

- since it's inside a laptop that already tends to get a bit hot, how high would people recommend I OC it? I hear that the new Celerons are not like the good ol' ones from days of yore with huge OC potential...

Thanks!
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[Jeff7]

Generally, laptops are not to be overclocked. They're said to be manufactured with special specific specifications (alliteration anyone?) in mind - exceed it, and you could risk hardware damage. Or a fire.
Plus, most people don't even bother writing overclocking programs (like CPUFSB) with support for laptops for that reason.
Laptop BIOSes will probably never have anything in them for changing the FSB or the multiplier; most of them don't have anything remotely advanced in them in the first place. The one Compaq laptop I've seen has maybe 4 menus in it - one is almost entirely informational, the other is for a securty password, the next is for boot device sequence, and the last is save-and-exit options.