hey guys is there anyway i can oc my dad's laptop? its a dell latitude cpx 500mhz 512 pc100 144pin ram i heard i can oc up to 650mhz easy ., but i dont know how .. plz help :)
please let me know if more spec needed
thanks in advance
SoLjA

"i heard i can oc up to 650mhz easy"

Where in the hell did you hear this?

Skip

this dude @ ebay was selling a cpu overclocked from 500mhz to 650mhz ! i asked him & he said he did it & it was easy but he wont tell me how :/

Thought it would be something like that. That thing is very difficult to take apart and even if you could somehow change the fsb each try would require you to disassemble and reassemble the laptop.

You'd better check and see if your dad wants you to mess with a 500-600 buck laptop. It will almost certainly end up as junk.

Skip

hehehe yeha its pain in the @ss to take it apart but i just replaced the heatsink / fan wasnt easy but dont once u do it its not that hard after all ! i just wana try it becuase he dont wana buy a new laptop yet ! but he want me to see if i can make it faster ! i bought $400 memory pc100 512 ! still aint fast use to be 254 ! but if i have to take it apart & play wit fsb i can do it .. only if u tell me how to :-)

Thanks
SoLjA

My experience doesn't extend to your latitude. I can tell you that my Inspiron 7000 366PII motherboard has no jumpers, no dip switches and no bios adjustments.

If there are no adjustments on your motherboard, there is no overclock capability I'm aware of.

I'm glad you got through the fan replacement. That seems to be a common latitude problem with the non thermally controlled fans.

The first thing I'd do to speed the machine up is make sure XP is running as well as possible. The additional memory should have helped some. You know, keep all the spyware cleaned up etc.

I tried XP on my 366 w/ 256Mb about 18 months ago and that was a non working combination. Me went back on the old 6.4Gig hdd and it worked just fine. I keep that thing on 24/7 when I'm not on the road and it easily does anything I need it to including playing dvd's thru the tv and stereo.

Barring some unforseen disaster, I expect to use that machine for years to come.

A few of us are currently buying old P100 machines for daily use in the trucks with 98se and Office97. They're plenty fast enough for spreadsheets, word processing, reading acrobat files and so forth. Much less of a loss on the day they'll be stolen.

Skip

Just wondering...
Im just about to purchase a 2nd hand dell latitute cpx from a 2nd hand warehouse. Its in great condition and even includes a perfect condition carry case etc. Only problem is they said the battery on ALL their lot of dell cpx's are dead. So I'll need a new battery.

Anyway to my question:
What ram is maximum for this system? its the 500mhz PIII model and comes with 128mbs ram. Im getting for $550 AU so was pretty happy with that. its ~ $450 US i guess?

Cheers for any help
Rob

its a good laptop i had it over 4 yrs now .. yes all dell latitude CPx & LS has battery problem .. you can buy new one on ebay for cheap ! i have 512 ram u cant go more then that & u have to buy 2 chips of 256 each and thats about the right price of 2nd hand laptop mostly goes for $550 :/ i got 2 for $800 4 yrs ago when they came out new :) .. i heard u can OC them to 650mhz but donno how to .. i might pay this guy to do mine hes asking $50 to oc lets see !

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