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Hi,
My Dell Vostro 1500 has a 1.6Ghz C2D L7500. I'm sure this is holding me back in a few games and was wondering about overclocking it slightly. Obviously being a Dell there are no overclocking options in the BIOS, so software overclocking is going to have to be used.
ClockGen doesn't seem to want to know, so now I have got SysTool. To do the overclocking it wants to know the clock generator being used, how might I find this out?
I've looked with CPU-Z and I can't find anything obvious. Is there a code that will point it out or something? Systool has a long list of chips that might be it, but nothing that relates to something in CPU-Z.
TIA 
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"Engineering reports 105% on reactor possible, but not recommended Captain!"
I reckon the line from Hunt for Red October is appropriate here...
I'd hazard a guess that overclocking a laptop is not really worth it. Increase in heat will just kill everything, pretty quickly. Though it would be nice to increase laptop power a bit as I'm just a tad of being able to play BF2 on my laptop.
Though the tools you use might be useful for my Dell XPS desktop so I await any further (more helpful) responses with baited breath.
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Desktops are for gaming unless you want to spend a fortune. Are you really sure that a scarcely perceptible fps increase is worth the risk of trashing your laptop?
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Though the tools you use might be useful for my Dell XPS desktop so I await any further (more helpful) responses with baited breath.
this is what a lot of extreme overclockers use, when they dont have the time to go through bios. the page lists a lot of different chipsets, should be able to find what you want here.
you cant increase voltage tho.
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I believe that the GPU is being held back by the CPU. My laptop can accept upto a 2.2Ghz CPU, presumably cooling is generically accepting of all processors in the range.
What is surprising is that the same risks are with desktop overclocking. You go up untill you hit the ceiling where it will not go any higher. Admittedly it's the generic cooler not a third-party job that is superior, but even with a stock heat-sink you can usually overclock a little.
Processors have inbuilt thermal checks, so I'm not going to kill the processor, more likely I'll find errors before I hit the melting point of my CPU. If there is not much overclocking potential in the processor then at least I will have tried, but I want to tinker
So my question remains, is there a way of finding more detailed information on the motherboard, such as clock generators? Is it generic to the chipset used or is it independant of the chipset and specific to what chips are put on the board as it is made?
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According to that set FSB website, your clock generator is your motherboard.
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I had a look at overclocking my laptop last year and didn't have any joy. Clockgen wouldn't have it but I didn't try the other software mentioned.
It's all about the PLL (Phase Locked Loops). I'm not going to pretend I understand it, but I believe the software needs to have a good understanding of the specific PLL in order to manipulate it.
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i don't think the extra heat is a problem so much with laptops - it is more the enclosed space that causes the problems.
and whilst your motherboard can take a 2.2Ghz processor a 2.2Ghz running at stock should run cooler than its equivalent 1.6Ghz running at that speed OCed.
also i am not sure if software level programs can bypass this but i dunno if motherboards come with the option to unlock FSB from other frequencies which takes away almost all you headroom.
to get around the heat problem though you could always get a 3rd party addon cooler that usually clips on underneath the laptop with fans and heatsinks and the like i think Gigabyte do a nice one... not sure tho.Tatos
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