800mhz to 1066mhz

HI recently i read a post on this forum where somebody managed to overclock their (core 2 duo) fsb from 667 to 800mhz! i have an 800mhz cpu already, do you think it would be possible to oc to 1066? (vostro wit core 2 duo)

 

Good luck with that...I've never seen it happen (and work).

 

Correct me if i'm wrong.. but I believe your proc (5470 is a 667 mhz chip, not 800mhz) so you would have to reach that making 1066mhz more or less not possible in the confines of a laptop. :O

 

nah m8 this is vostro they only come with 800mhz cpu's! anyway if i wanted to try how would i do it?

 

For a laptop you need to use a third party program such as ClockGen. But quite frankly, if you didn't know that already, I wouldn't attempt it. Laptops generally run pretty hot as it is and the minimal speed boost isn't worth the voided warranty and risk of hardware failure. Be happy with what you have, it's a pretty good processor already.

 

lol, i tryed clockgen a couple of days ago "IT DOESN'T WORK" dell for some reason lock the bios!

 

Yeah; Dell does that with overclocking. They kinda don't want you to xD

 

Well, it's safe to say then that unless a pinmod is found for the Santa Rosa Meroms or Dell refreshes the BIOS to allow it (unlikely), you can't. Dell probably locks the BIOS so they don't get tech support calls: "I fried my ----- gimme a new one".

 

yep lets hope there is some kinda pin mod in the future

 

does the motherboard in laptops even support 1066? i thought it wa sonly up to 800

 

Umm, untill there's a 1066MHz cpu out there, you can't just freely pinmod cpus up past their max to whatever you want.

Back in the day, there were 2 types: 400MHz bus and 533MHz. For those with 400MHz, there was a pinmod to make it run like an already existing 533MHz cpu.

Today, there's 2 main types: 667MHz and 800MHz bus. You can take the 667 one and pin mod it to be like the arleady existing 800MHz one.

But you can't take those 533 Pentium M's further because there was no PM with more bus. So today it's the same. You can go from 667 to 800, but you can't take an 800MHz bus cpu and just up it to whatever.

 

i just want to know how do you overclock a FSB...

 

uhh pinmod!, so do you thin when there are 1066 cpu's that there will be a pm for it?

 

There are 1066 cpu's I have one in my laptop.

 

Yeh...so where this pinmod at ey?

 

I don't need a pinmod.

My FSB is 1066Mhz.

The Asus C90 has the ability to change it's FSB up to 1278Mhz, if I remember reading it correctly.

 

Rele? is that so... cuz then that would make trying the E6850 in the C90s both a plausible and cheaper idea... even tho its not quite 1333mhz...

 

Only problem would be the TDP....I haven't checked the specs on what the C90 is capable of. It may not be rated high enough. I don't know what the E6850 draws either.

 

The T5470 is a 667MHz FSb CPU. It's still Santa rosa, but it's a 667MHz. The 800MHz FSB CPU available right now are T7100, T7300, T7500 and T7700.