Overclocking a notebook

[wjgollatz]

If one can open up the chasis and have access to the motherboard, can the CPU's generally be overclocked - or are notebook motherboards designed to prevent this? I wouldn't overclock a large amunt because of the extra heat.

Thanks.

 

[Richardito]

To achieve this you need progrmas like REGEdit, soft FSB, etc. Basically you can only use software to overclock it.

 

[Bojangles139]

I won't do it.

if you OC a little bit to prevent overheating, you won't notice the difference and won't be of any significant. if you OC to gain some serious gain, a real chance of blowing the mobo/cpu and you know how expensive those laptops are.

i won't ever think about or recommend OC'ing a laptop.

brandon

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Bojangles139
I won't do it.

if you OC a little bit to prevent overheating, you won't notice the difference and won't be of any significant. if you OC to gain some serious gain, a real chance of blowing the mobo/cpu and you know how expensive those laptops are.

i won't ever think about or recommend OC'ing a laptop.

brandon

Yep, it's highly unlikely you'd be able to get a high OC with a laptop, and the extra heat for small OC'ing gains just isn't worth it, IMHO.

 

[puppyfriend]

I haven't done it lately, but back in the day I bought a P75 Toshiba. Broke out the soldering iron and overclocked it to P133. Still running to this day. I tried it as a P166 for a while, but it couldn't handle the heat. I wouldn't worry too much about heating up and frying anything on a laptop. Many have thermal shutdown features that will just shut the computer down if it gets too hot. Desktops are only beginning to catch up in this area.