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How to underclock Pentium 4 with Clockgen
I am stuck will a 4 year old Dell Inspiron 9100. It has a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 HT. How do I under clock it using Clockgen? What PPL model do I select?
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You find the chip set! Only way you might be able to find, open notebook, maybe not a great idea. Ok so where are we? Even though you have many choices for ppl there are "family" of them. Pick differn't ones first one that reports anything that makes sense with readings keep looking until the clocks make sense. The help button describes this better than I can. The main point is if you have the wrong one it will show you junk.
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ok. thanks.
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I have spent many long nights and many long hours trying to figure out how to overclock my P4 in a desktop application. Read this carefully, YOU CANNOT OVERCLOCK A PREMANUFACTURED PC < I.E> DELL, SONY, HP, COMPAQ, GATEWAY. The motherboard bios limits the amount of voltage the cpu cand handle. You cannot reflash the mobo either as these companies buy custom bios's from their manufacturers. Futhermore, do not try and overclock a laptop processor. They are in compact space and already produce enough heat. Overclocking will produce more heat and could cause meltdown. If you wanna overclock your computers in the future, either build a desktop, or buy a laptop from a company that does not lock their mobo bias. Not even software tools like clockgen will let you overclock your processor.
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I have spent many long nights and many long hours trying to figure out how to overclock my P4 in a desktop application. Read this carefully, YOU CANNOT OVERCLOCK A PREMANUFACTURED PC < I.E> DELL, SONY, HP, COMPAQ, GATEWAY. The motherboard bios limits the amount of voltage the cpu cand handle. You cannot reflash the mobo either as these companies buy custom bios's from their manufacturers. Futhermore, do not try and overclock a laptop processor. They are in compact space and already produce enough heat. Overclocking will produce more heat and could cause meltdown. If you wanna overclock your computers in the future, either build a desktop, or buy a laptop from a company that does not lock their mobo bias. Not even software tools like clockgen will let you overclock your processor.
You are wrong! Also the question asked was underclocking, so you are more wrong. I can and have overclocked my FSB increasing CPU and RAM speed! I do watch temp and there are ways to control. I do not have heat issues when I overclock. You are wrong, that's it but you did not even answer or address the question!
Edit: overclocking is not messing w/voltage
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Find the PLL then search google to see if anyone else has played with that particular PLL using any programs like SetFSB, CPUCOOL, Clockgen, Systool, etc...
PLL's usually say "ICS*****" or "CY******". Winbond also manufactures PLL's. It should be located near the CPU socket or northbridge and will have a lot of pins comming of the side of it.
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All you have to do is go thru every one and find the one that reports your clocks correctly. Also I disable the part that adjusts PCIe and PCI after I have found not b/4. It is easier to click and see than open up your notebook. When you find the right one it displays correctly! That's it. But if Google works good idea!
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I have spent many long nights and many long hours trying to figure out how to overclock my P4 in a desktop application. Read this carefully, YOU CANNOT OVERCLOCK A PREMANUFACTURED PC < I.E> DELL, SONY, HP, COMPAQ, GATEWAY. The motherboard bios limits the amount of voltage the cpu cand handle. You cannot reflash the mobo either as these companies buy custom bios's from their manufacturers. Futhermore, do not try and overclock a laptop processor. They are in compact space and already produce enough heat. Overclocking will produce more heat and could cause meltdown. If you wanna overclock your computers in the future, either build a desktop, or buy a laptop from a company that does not lock their mobo bias. Not even software tools like clockgen will let you overclock your processor.
First of all, he is talking about UNDERCLOCKING, not overclocking.
And second of all, every single thing that you said on there is not true. You can OC laptops and OEM systems, and you CAN use software like clockgen to OC them.
And given that most laptop cpus are overvolted, one does not need to worry so much about overheating from OCing if you know how to undervolt.
I OCed my cpu after I undervolted it, and at the higher speed I still ran LESS voltage than stock. So my OCed cpu ran cooler than the stock cpu the computer came with. So I would say that keeping your cpu stock is more of a threat of overheating than if you unvervolt and the OC it.
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By using RMclock you should be able to limit the cpu to a lower speed. My athlon 64 mobile runs at 1.8GHz max but can be limited to 1.6GHz, 1GHz, 900MHz and 800MHz.
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Find me one instance where you have overlocked a premanufactured processor or video card. Im talking sony, hp, dell, or any other major manufacturer besides asus/clevo. There bioses are locked. Motherboard manufacturers lock the bios for exactly for that reason. durrrrrr. boons. I have spent days upon days using software programs like clock gen to over clock my sony p4 and also an hp, and a tohsiba. You cannot change the voltage in any premanufactured pc. You think you can change the fsb with clockgen you cannot, the software will tell you you have, go to the bios and check the fsb it will not change.