Hello all lovely to be here. So many topics on the things I'm interested in I love it. I think I'll suceed in what I want to do anyway. Really I just want to OC my laptop. I have a couple a later sony vaio and an old dell inspiron. Want to use the dell as a firewall running linux. What would you recommend? Thanks.
Saying hello and about OC a laptop
- Thread starter Mendzi
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Nice opening post Dude, Welcome to OCUK
Any chance you can raise a few quid for a cheap self build & Clock that as you are ******* in the wind trying to clock a lappy.
Thanks a lot just trying to get as much juice from it as possible. It's 256MB RAM as default which is on board now. But it can be upgraded to 512MB so doing that first. That why I want to put a Linux distro on it though because it will use much less resources and be much more secure too. I've got some xp in the field of unix firewalls and IS. When you have that you learn why unix is a better firewall if you're running a small network or public server. Anyway I guess the RAM is pretty much all one can do on an old lappy like this. Still, hope to get a couple of years out of it yet before I recycle it!
You could always switch out the CPU. If its an old one which it sounds like, the chips are pretty cheap anyway. As long as you are careful opening it and make sure you remember what goes where its not a hugely difficult project. I did my first one with pretty much no laptop experience and it was simple.