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As title says can you over clock a laptop? Its an Acer Aspire 5738
can you overclock a laptop?
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Your bios probably wouldn't let you, but often you can flash to a different bios which does. Risky procedure though! Notebookreview.com forums is a great place to find alternative bioses and if it's possible for your model, there should be a guide.
As mentioned, temps may well be an issue so it's not a good idea on the whole. I installed a different bios to my Vaio Z but that was so I could undervolt it as it was running too hot
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As mentioned, temps may well be an issue so it's not a good idea on the whole. I installed a different bios to my Vaio Z but that was so I could undervolt it as it was running too hot
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Doubtful. I have a similar model..... the aspire 5942g, and the bios is incredibly basic. No overclocking options whatsoever.
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you would be better investigating if you can install a faster CPU. Depends on whether you are upto disassembling your laptop.
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Not with a stock BIOS. You may be able to flash an unlocked one, but I wouldn't really recommend it. You'd get little gain, masses of heat and greatly reduced battery life. As Varkanoid said, you'd be much better off upgrading the CPU.
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I overclocked my netbook (atom processor) i got a good result but after a couple of weeks constant BSOD all the time backed off then ok for a while then more BSOD so went to stock and all is fine shame as it has the nvidia ion chip but all being killed by the lazy atom
Ok thanks all, I think I'll leave it