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I'm scoring a new Dell Inspiron 9300, Pentium M 770, 1 gig 533mhz DDR2 Ram, 6800 Go, 100 Gig Ultra ATA. Has anyone had any experiance with these? what are they like? and how easy are they to over clock?

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Overclocking laptop is just plain wrong. You want to underclock it which is exactly what SpeedStepping does.

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why not OC laptops? is it cuz of the heat? the battery? or just simply too hard to OC (eg. need hardware mod in a very delicate place, which is all over the place in a laptop i'm sure)?

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I'm not even going to comment, this is ridiculous.

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no experience, but nice looking specs at least. As for overclocking: forget it. Youd likely have better chances overclocking an xbox or your VCR.

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*nods*
Anything plugged into the main 24/7 can be overclocked.
Anything that's not, you can forget about it.

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Seeing as I'm bored at work (again) I'll shed a bit more light on it for ya....

1)Overclocking produces more heat - your Laptop is designed around a pretty specific requirement in this area, so it's cooling might prove insufficient if you overclock it.
2)Overclocking frequently needs a better HSF. It's a laptop - A laptop with a XP-120 would stop being quite so portable, yes?
3)Laptop Motherboards/BIOSes are not geared towards overclocking. You'd have little (if any) control over anything frequency/voltage wise if you were to try.
4) It's designed to underclock itself all the time, so fiddling around with its stock speeds might make this perform unpredictably.
5) Battery life would suffer horribly. Leaving it constantly plugged in would get around that, but that's not always good for the battery, and why buy a laptop if you always have it plugged in? :eek:
6) If operating laptop <i>on</i> your lap, overclocking will damage your sperm count more than running it at stock or lower speeds would do. :wink:
7) The RAM you get with it probably isn't geared for that sort of application.

Aside from that lot, there's nothing in your way! go for it... :tongue:

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lol thanks chipdeath, i guess i could do it to a 100 dollar laptop that i'm gona get and put google earth on it (trying to dl the whhole north american liberary, or world liberary if possible, to use them as a map) and use it in the car, plugged into the AC outlet :)

BTW anyone know how to download the full north american map liberary? or the world liberary fot google earth?

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I'm not sure what your intentions with Google earth are but the images are about 4 years old and not that accurate. Some location are about 1/2 a block off.

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You'll be better off war-driving than buying a crap'ol laptop.

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well 1/2 a block isn;t all too bad for me, i'm not launching some percise missile here

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Go buy yourself an old Centrino and start war-driving. (War-biking for me)

I tell ya, it's great fun sitting outside someones house during midnight sniffing on LimeWire Pro/Torrent. :lol:

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O.o i'd laught if i go by my [insert bad teacher/person/[-peep-]/etc. here]'s house and find tones o porn pouring out of his wireless hub


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EDIT: child porn so i can report them and get them outta me life!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by TheHolyLancer on 08/03/05 10:48 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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laptops get pwned. my 538 gets to 70*C on full load and I have to clean all the vents a lot. Other people said they're gets to 80*C while gaming.

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Its a great laptop but give up your dream of OCing it. You can always downclock (Speedstep) them though..

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