First off, does anyone know of a way to overclock any dell laptop-- the particular laptop in question is the inspiron 8600, which uses the centrino package (pentium m, intel board).
Reasoning for overclock: more speed, obviously, but I only want to "upgrade" to the top model 1.7ghz. The chassis and current cooling solution are the same used in said 1.7 model.
A lil more info:
The multiplier is kinda unlocked, as it uses the speedstep technology to control temp/fan speed.
Utilities such as CPUMSR (which let you control multipliers within windows) do work properly, but not beyond the detected 1400mhz. No lockup, just no multiplier change occurs.
The bios, naturally, does not give control of anything remotely related to clock speed, aside from the speedstep settings.
The same bios are used on all I8600 laptops, a bios change will not suffice, unless it specifically provides control. (hacked, probably)
I have yet to take it apart; I'm a bit scared to do so, since I'm a poor man, and in debt just to try to pay for it. I'm not above jumper changes or other manual operations, but I'd rather know what I need to do before pulling the cover.
I would prefer a software solution, if possible, since I'd rather not PHYSICALLY void my warranty. I've even considered hacking the bios myself (I have a reasonable amount of experience in assembly and low level programming and the sort, but have never worked with bios code), but am saving that as a last resort
If anyone has any experience with this, or of a site on such a topic, please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Dan (long time reader and forum attendee, first time poster)
Reasoning for overclock: more speed, obviously, but I only want to "upgrade" to the top model 1.7ghz. The chassis and current cooling solution are the same used in said 1.7 model.
A lil more info:
The multiplier is kinda unlocked, as it uses the speedstep technology to control temp/fan speed.
Utilities such as CPUMSR (which let you control multipliers within windows) do work properly, but not beyond the detected 1400mhz. No lockup, just no multiplier change occurs.
The bios, naturally, does not give control of anything remotely related to clock speed, aside from the speedstep settings.
The same bios are used on all I8600 laptops, a bios change will not suffice, unless it specifically provides control. (hacked, probably)
I have yet to take it apart; I'm a bit scared to do so, since I'm a poor man, and in debt just to try to pay for it. I'm not above jumper changes or other manual operations, but I'd rather know what I need to do before pulling the cover.
I would prefer a software solution, if possible, since I'd rather not PHYSICALLY void my warranty. I've even considered hacking the bios myself (I have a reasonable amount of experience in assembly and low level programming and the sort, but have never worked with bios code), but am saving that as a last resort
If anyone has any experience with this, or of a site on such a topic, please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Dan (long time reader and forum attendee, first time poster)
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