Intel Centrino Overclocking Guide Posted!

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by login

Dear Adrian Wong, I'm a Spanish reader Of this page, I think its wonderful, I tried to Overclock my Asus M6726NELH, Dothan 1,6 ghz to show overclock capabilities in dothan in my webpage, www.xtreme-condition.com AND the first time I tried to overclock my dothan it incrEased aproximately tu 1,8 ghz, I do not remember how exactly it was, I tried CY28346 It look fine first time, I had an 1,8 dothan for the same price, I tried son benches, and it was cool! But after by a windows XP error, it had shut down...

Next time I tried to overclock it, the #1J error, appeared, do you know could it have ocurred?


Thnx I love this page, its very useful

Hello login,

Thanks for your kind comments.

Actually, the chance of overclocking the Centrino notebook depends NOT on the processor core (Banias or Dothan) but rather on the motherboard's clock generator.

If the motherboard is using a clock generator compatible with that of the two ClockGen utilities, then you can overclock the processor and motherboard. Otherwise, you will get that error.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by AlexfromHellas

I am a Toshiba M30X owner...I tried the clockgen , it works+ there seems to be an AGP PCI lock! The problem is that although I can set lets say..1704 Mhz, the actual frequency of the laptop remains 1502. I confirmed this with cpuz and speedswichXP (excelent application for laptops). How on earth can I save the settings of clockgen ? I even placed a shotcut on startup folder , the clockgen appears on win startup but the frequency remains 1500!!

Hmm.. Are you sure you actually overclocked the processor?

You should check by benchmarking the notebook before and after applying the ClockGen settings.

[peaz]

Here's how you make a shortcut to set ur clockspeed. http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php#directions

Just creating a shortcut to clockgen won't set it to the overclocked speed as by default, it does not keep the settings anywhere.

[overl0ad]

pulling the plug n yanking out the batt is not wat i'm worried abt.

what i am worried abt is if it writes back into the bios.

i don't think so, but if it does, i'll end up with a very expensive paper weight...

[Chai]

Clockgen WILL NOT write anything into the BIOS. Everything will be reset to default after rebooting your system.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Chai

Clockgen WILL NOT write anything into the BIOS. Everything will be reset to default after rebooting your system.

Exactly.

[login]

HEllo y re tried another time to re-overclock it, this time nearly 1800mhz it went fine, I returned it to default settings an then tried to OC again, the famous 1J.# error appeared...

do you know why does it happen? I first OC an then error

its amazing no?

Thx!

[Transient]

I have a Dell Latitude D800 and it works with the CG-CY28346 ClockGen utility. The same also works on my friend's Inspiron 8600.

So far I ramped it up from 1.3 GHz to 1.45 GHz without any adverse effects. I'm going to Ghost my system tonight and then try pushing it further.

Even just the extra 150 MHz had a noticeable improvement in Doom 3. Likely because of the oc'd memory and AGP clocks on top of the CPU.

[aye29]

How do you get the change to the FSB to stick after you have restarted the computer. I tried the method described on the ClockGen website about creating a shortcut but when I run the shortcut I get a message saying "Error reading param file !"

I created a shortcut to ClockGen with the target line as "C:\Program Files\ClockGen\CG-CY28346.exe" -file=savefile.txt

The savefile.txt contains the lines

[CG-CY28346]
FSB=107.22

and is in the same folder as the ClockGen exe.
I can figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I am using ClockGen CG-CY28346 on a Dell Inspiron 8600 1.4GHz P-M. CG-CY28346 does on have AGP Freq controls, only FSB.

[login]

This is my OC Dothan 1,6 @



But misteriously CPU-Z doesn't show any changes...