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Hi,
I'd like to know if it is possible to upgrade\overclock my old Toshiba laptop, which is running win98SE pretty well. I haven't tried unscrewing it, but i have taken a few looks under the keyboard. I would need to be guided through the overclocking process, if possible, because i can hardly distinguish the prossecor from the ram (on a laptop).PLEASE!!! anyone, HELP!!!
It's not likely that it supports oc'ing...you see your motherboard has to support oc'ing if it doesn't you have to mod it to do so. maybe johnoh has a better suggestion?? i don't know much about laptops, i only had 1 in my life that i broke by spilling pepsi on it lol.
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Well, how do i know if it supports o\cing?and if it doesn't, how can i mod it?
And is there a program out there that will boost the speed of my cpu, in any way?
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Some laptops have dip switches or jumpers that let you adjust the voltage, fsb, and multiplier. My old k6-2 compaq presario laptop had such switches. You really should do google searches and such on the matter, because it took my 10 hours spread out over a week to find the information I needed to OC my laptop. Also, any OC you do probably won't do much for performance, so it may just be best to leave it as it is. Especially if you have no idea what you are doing.
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Yeah, I use my 490XCDT with my Garmin GPS. It's a nice old laptop with 12.1" "active matrix" screen. No, you cannot overclock it.
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Laptops aren't really good for oc'ing.even if you did manage to oc it,it would probably only be 100mhz or something before your temps get too high...laptops run hot. also if you wanted to mod it i don't know how but it's not easy and it involves soldering and finding parts that are almost impossible to find. and there are no programs that i know of that can increase the speed of your cpu. usually you just use the bios to change the fsb, which you should know about BEFORE even thinking of oc'ing otherwise your setting yourself up for problems. but your motherboard probably doesn't support fsb adjustments.
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just one last question, what's MMX? like, there are pentium mmx's and P2 MMX's, but what do they do that's so special?
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MMX and all that are optimizations to the cpu that helps it run faster than without it.
MMX:
Intel's MMX™ Technology processes multiple integer data items in parallel, 64 bits at a time. It can speed processing of pixels in 3D graphics, compared to straight Intel Architecture code which handles at most 32 bits at a time. Thus MMX™ Technology may enable higher frame rates and/or higher quality images.
MMX™ Technology best fits 16-bit or 24-bit color rendering, although it can assist 8-bit also. Intel and other developers have written 3D rendering code using MMX™ Technology. Benefits were found in alpha blending, Gouraud shading, Z-Buffering, pixel-depth conversion, image copying, bilinear filtering, texture mapping, and procedural texturing. MMX™ Technology algorithms can be 2x to 4x faster in 16 and 24-bit color; but 8-bit color algorithms typically speedup only 30% or less. These speedups come from:
Go here fo the rest-http://cedar.intel.com/cgi-bin/ids.dll/content/content.jsp?cntKey=Legacy%3a%3airtm_3DMMXOV_10502&cntType=IDS_EDITORIAL&catCode=BMJ
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ok, i'm back. over the past day and a half I have gathered enough information to O\C a computer, and i've caught up on a lot of newer stuf in the computer industry. through the bios, i have just finished o\cing my desktop, but now im determined to find out how to o\c my laptop. 200 mhz would be ideal for this computer to reach. however, the thing that is now stopping me is the bios. Toshiba has their own bios, and there is no way through it to o\c this thing. has anyone in the past had any experience at all with a toshiba laptop before? Im still searching the net for help, so far i've found none. Can anyone assist me in any way?
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You did all that in a day and a half? Cool.
Only help I can offer at this stage is that your laptop is currently selling for about a hundred bucks on ebay. Bid now.
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Yup, a day and a half. Thanx to my other topic here, Jonah gave me those web sites. I know it all...
And, BTW, i wouldn't sell this old thing for 100 bucks. I got WAY too much use out of itto even sell it for 500. I'm getting my aunts computer soon, though. It's a laptop, Pentium 166MHZ MMX. It's good enough for me. with the MMX, i can use it for games, so im SOOO excited. But i guess I should just give up on this old thing. Should I?
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AU,
No, don't get rid of it. My post was to let you know that if you try to overclock this thing, you'll be able to replace it for about $100.
Disassembled and reassembled my laptop yesterday to repair a dc-dc board. Not a job I'd wish on anybody.
Try leaving your 430 as it is. It's quite an asset to have a working pentium class laptop. Not working...doesn't even make a good doorstop.
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