lappy overclock possible?

lewicron

I just moved to Singapore, and the low price of laptops over here has made me decide to buy one. My question is, can you overclock a lappy or is the cooling just not up to it?

Here's what I'm going to get (probably):

Dell Inspiron 9400 Notebook
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T7200 (2GHz, 4MB Cache, 667 MHz FSB)
Displays: 17" UltraSharp(TM) Wide Screen UXGA Display with Truelife(TM): 1920x1200
DIMM Memory: 2048MB (2 X 1024MB) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Drives: 80GB SATA Hard Drive
GFXCard: 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7900 GS

muddocktor

It asll depends on the laptop; some can and some can't be overclocked. Since the model Dell you are looking at is so new, I doubt that it can be overclocked yet. But it should be a hella fast lappy anyways, with the configuration you want to get. BTW, the Pentium M, Core Duo and Core 2 Duo machines shouldn't have any problems with cooling as long as the stock vcore isn't raised, IMO.

Thrax

Man, that is one hell of a laptop.

TheLostSwede

Unfortunatly, the only thing you can overclock is the gfx by flashing it to another bios with higher default speeds and possibly voltages. No chipset overclocking for that clockgenerator as of yet I have already asked Franck at Cpu-z. 9400 and XPS M1710 is the same machine. You can buy the 7900GTX GO if you want though.