Possible to overclock my CPU

jakejacob0 · 14 Feb 2012 at 19:01

Hey all i have a Acer Aspire 6920g

Has an okay graphics card: 9500mgs

but im really held back by my CPU being oly 2GHz

Is there anyway to increase this?

I dont have any heat issues and can get an extra fan if needeed

thanks all

bees · 7 Mar 2012 at 23:13

Replace the processor with a higher speed. I replaced mine with T9000 series 2.5 ghz. Works great and no heat issue or what so ever.

richthomuk · 8 Mar 2012 at 03:52

without sounding like an arse here, if you need to ask about overclocking and your running a lappy its probably not the best idea to give it a try. Id prob just agree with Bees and upgrade the CPU. Is there anything your trying to run on there in particular?

TheFool · 21 Mar 2012 at 22:31

I don't think you can overclock a laptop CPU, I haven't found a way on my 8930g. Before you look into upgrading your CPU, are you sure it isn't being throttled.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ace...r-aspire-gemstone-blue-throttling-issues.html

My laptop had this issue, to test for it just max out the CPU and monitor the clockspeed. If you have no heat issues you could probably overclock your GPU too

InfiniteNoise · 22 Mar 2012 at 08:37

Unless you have one of these Extreme edition mobile CPUs, you can't really overclock them outside of pin mod.

edit; actually, I think you can overclock few CPUs slightly, Alienware laptops gives you the option, but it's only BLCK and that isn't really ideal, they're Sandy Bridge mobile processors. (I might be wrong, but it's what I've picked up hanging around on Alienware forums)

paradigm · 22 Mar 2012 at 09:02

If you can find out what PLL chip the laptop uses then you'll be able to clock using SETFSB/CPUFSB no problem. The results will be particularly bad though, especially compared with desktop overclocks.

gambitt · 23 Mar 2012 at 11:12

I want to underclock my Vaio S13 i3-380m. Would SetFSB work for that?

Cult_X · 24 Mar 2012 at 01:13

overclocking laptop needs lots of research....i.e what laptop to buy next after it over heats and kills everything.

Not a brilliant idea. I esspecially wouldnt do it on an aver aspire laptop, mine we shabang and it was desked its whole life or used with a custom cooler cushion. They have a tendancy to overheat stock no matter how good care is.

@gambitt
I thought vaio's all have powersave mode? just activate that as it will underclock to save power

FlyingFish · 26 Mar 2012 at 17:02

I don't know about your particular model laptop, but as stated above I did some research and found out I could drop a 920m extreme edition cpu in my laptop. Which is what I have done, and used a little program called 'throttle stop' to use/clock/unlock all of the cores for a significant performance boost and with manageable heat. This also works the other way and allows you to underclock to save energy. But I've not tried that yet ;-)

Similar principle for the gpu I have swapped out, for a 6970m. It's undervolted and working superb at stock with manageable heat. But muchly improved performance over my gpu.

Mick