Do the new Dell Latitudes overclock?

Johnnytoxic · 4 Dec 2008 at 20:10

My dad just ordered an E5500. Was the only new laptop with a serial rs232 port from dell. Just wondered if the core2duos in them overclock?

TheVoice · 5 Dec 2008 at 01:31

The BIOS in most notebooks will be locked against overclocking, and given the issues around heat, it's not wise to fiddle with them.

NightShadow · 10 Dec 2008 at 08:51

No way to overclock them, only the top end XPS laptops (XPS 1710) with the extreme CPUs were overclockable as it was enabled in the BIOS and I don't think anyone ever hacked it to work with other CPUs or laptop models.

NS

Sagi3 · 10 Dec 2008 at 11:53

Is it possible to overclock graphics cards for example a radeon hd 3400?

NightShadow · 16 Dec 2008 at 21:29

Yup, use somthing like Powerstrip, ATITool or RivaTuner and you should be able to play with the core anc memory speeds. I went for powerstrip but found negligable difference with the Radeon 3450, had is at 650/700 from a base of 500/500, come to think of it..I don't know if it was actually doing anything!

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