I have a Benq Joybook R55 laptop . At the moment I have a 60 gb HDD ( SATA 5400 rpm ) , and 512 RAM . I had ordered already 2 1 GB RAM stick , that are compatible with my laptop , and I have a decent laptop graphics card : NVIDIA GeForce 7400 , with 256 mb of memory .
Now , the problem is that my CPU has only 1.6 ghz speed ( Intel Celeron M ) . I overclock it , and it runs at 1.9 GHZ with no heat issues .
My question is : can I upgrade my CPU to a 2.8-3.2 GHZ speed , or not ?
2007-10-07 07:24:44 · 3 answers · asked by i111alien 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Well I would suggest overclocking, but hou have already done that. You have already overclocked it and increased by 0.3 Ghz, 0.1 to 0.5 Ghz is considered safe overclocking. 0.6 Ghz to 1.0Ghz is considered extreme and anything above that is dangerous as it will probably just burn out your processor, so to get the speeds you want overclock it some more, raise all levels to about 3/4 maximum, if it starts to overheat i suggest you change it back. Overclocking really is the only way to increase the cpu speed. The only other way is to buy a new cpu, or easier, a new laptop.
2007-10-07 07:37:12 · answer #1 · answered by Kieran 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the CPU is not soldered to the motherboard (some are), you might (just might) be able to bump up the speed by replacing it with a faster processor. Of course, it also depends on the motherboard and the support chips that interface the CPU to the rest of the motherboard components. In some cases, these are a "matched set" with the support chips (which are usually soldered in place) designed to clock at a certain rate--and no higher.
Understand that in the day when we built 8-bit processors, it was a lot easier to overclock as the slower processors were exactly like the faster CPUs but could not hold up under the heat/strain of higher clock rates. When a chip is rated at a specific speed, it usually means that it broke down, started to make mistakes at the higher clock rates--not necessarily overheat. Overclocking might seem to work, but when things go wrong you're never really sure if it's the processor failing or some other issue. Note that when a modern CPU overheats (for whatever reason) it simply slows down until it returns to normal OT. Your overclocking might have seemed to work, but really didn't....
hth
2007-10-07 14:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by William V 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No,the CPU is soldered into the motherboard.
Budget laptops just aren't designed for Gaming.
2007-10-07 14:30:46 · answer #3 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋