Overclocking my laptop

[PCTwin]

Say hello to the newest member of the family. A Compaq Presario CQ60-420SA. Athlon X2 QL-65 CPU, 3GB PC2-6400 DDR2 and GeForce 8200M-G graphics. This poor orphan was dumped on me by the brother-in-law after he, for some strange reason, tried to fold it in half like a book.

It still runs, but he has broken the screen brackets that attach the lid to the hinges, the front bezel, and he’s pulled the fixed nuts out of their housing in the lid. He has also snapped one of the Wi-Fi aerial leads, but that still works anyway so it’s just a case of splicing the cable back together.

I don’t really have the money for the parts at the moment, so I’m going to run it off of an external 19” monitor for now.

This is the first laptop I have had complete control over, so I think I’ll try and overclock it, the wife won’t let me near the one she got two birthdays ago, but we shall see. Also, as I have to take it apart, I might as well try experimenting with a bit of watercooling on the CPU. Would it still be a laptop if I take everything out of the casing and watercool it.

Before I strip it naked though I will overclock it and run the benchmarks to see what it can do.

 

[86sixsix]

it always makes me cry when i see an amd in more bits than it's supposed to be!

quality photos of the destruction! (lol@folding it like a book) ...can i have the mangled aerials if you don't put it back together?

be sure to do some 'factory' benches for us all to see before you go mad...and to answer your question:

it's only a laptop if it still works on top of your lap!

 

[siravarice]

this shouldn't be watercooled, it should be retro-fitted into a wall and hooked up to a nice big tv with surround sound. Windows media centre never looked so sexy

 

[PCTwin]

The wife's laptop has a Blue-Ray drive while this only has DVD, the PS3 also has Blue-Ray and is linked to my 42" plasma. I just can't convince the wife to let me connect the 5.1 system to the telly, she's deaf in one ear and misses some of the directional sound, so I have that linked to the PC.

I will post the factory settings benchmark results soon, but, as usual, I've gotten ahead of myself and stripped it.

 

[PCTwin]

Oops. I've put this thread in the wrong section. I wondered why I couldn't find it. I shaould have put it in the processors & platforms overclocking section. Sorry. Any chance a mod could move it please.