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Overclock IBM Thinkpad R31
Name: hello1234567891 Date: December 13, 2006 at 14:13:15 Pacific OS: Xp Pro CPU/Ram: 256mb Product: IBM
Comment:
HI,
does anyone know how to overclock an IBM thinkpad R31?
Name: TMP-Man Date: December 13, 2006 at 15:46:51 Pacific
Reply:
You can't overclock a namebrand computer like compaq dell hp ibm etc... with a cripple locked bios. Even in the case you overclock, the thermal solution on your "thinkpad (laptop)" will not able to handle the extra heat that design to run at stock...
TMP-Man
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: December 13, 2006 at 16:03:14 Pacific
Reply:
An addendum to the above is to try tools like SoftFSB, SpeedFan, CpuFSB or SetFSB. Goodluck!
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Response Number 3
Name: hello1234567891 Date: December 14, 2006 at 00:21:34 Pacific
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thanks is it possible to buy a new thermal solution then try and see one of the above will overclock it?
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Response Number 4
Name: wemby089 Date: December 14, 2006 at 10:28:04 Pacific
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you can use the pIII up to 1200 and the cpu swap is quite easy as I went from a celeron 1066 256k to the pentium III with the 512k level 2 cache. I would think a small overclock would be ok as this laptop runs quite cool.
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