how to overclock a Celeron M (on a laptop)?

Question

how do you overclock a Celeron M on a laptop...

Please Note: I AM ALREADY FULLY AWARE OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN FROM OVERCLOCKING

its on a Windows XP SP2 Home Edition
its a 1.30Ghz Intel Celeron M Processor

please leave detailed details on how to do this Thank you in advanced!

(if you have more questions ask them and ill reply in about 5 minutes on here)

Answer 1

The super small result from overclocking a celeron is worthless - I doubt SERIOUSLY if you could even tell a difference.

And, because it's a laptop, the BIOS is going to be set up to look for a few specific chips ONLY.

YOu stand to bennifit more from a new stick of RAM than OC'ing you CPU!

Answer 2

CPUFSB (Change the frequency of your PC)
http://www.cpufsb.de/
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=420&file=10&evp=5f84d0e1fad4ef6ef937fa4287228a95
What this little program does is change the FSB (Front Side Bus) to higher frequencies so that your CPU runs faster & at higher frequencies...This is used when you Bios is Locked and you can't change the timing otherwise. (like mine)
You can overclock what you got, but as the previous post said, it's not going to give you a BIG boost in performance like overclocking a Pentium 4-2.4Ghz to 2.66Ghz...Like I did with mine....
This will also increase your bus speed...so cooling is required or you're going to make the chips a bit hotter than regular cooling can handle...Add a extra fan, larger heatsink or both...
I personally burned up my Motherboard using this without the added cooling...Now that I have 5 fans it stays nice and cool and it's not hurting the chips...

Answer 3

Why would you be pursuing this if you know what can happen from overclocking?

First, many laptops are different from desktops in that they have circuitry that modulates the clock depending on if you on the battery or connected to the wall. So what you do is going to specific to your system.

Second, you are going to have crashes and disk errors and will eventually corrupt your disk and have to reload your OS most likely or corrupt your data. I know you think it would be cool to do this, but you really get very little out of it less than 10% increase in performance and the cost can be lots and lots of work.

If your laptop is slow to get a performance boost you are better off maxing out the memory and tuning the OS .. that can be significantly positive with no danger of having to fix anything.