Posted

May 24th 2008

Mood

ALIVE!

And finally, as of 24th of May 2008, I managed to push my laptop to its limits (somehow by accident) by adjusting it’s FSB rate at 250MHz, thus making my CPU go up from the original 1.9 GHz up to 2.4 GHz (1900.6 MHz to 2375 GHz).

Yesterday I played a bit with my RAM timings, so all in all I managed to set it to have a setting of 5-4-4-12 from the stock 5-5-5-15.

Along with that, I managed to put the same overclock settings on my sister’s laptop (though her settings can’t go as far as mine). Her RAM was a bit slower though overall, though I adjusted the timings to be the same as my overclocked RAM, so now I’d say she’s experiencing better speeds (though I’ll have to load the settings manually for her) than her current stock settings.

Whew, so that makes a new set of current specs for my laptop (based after overclocking, as a reminder):

Model: Acer Aspire 4520
CPU: AMD Turion 64×2 Mobile Technology TL-58 2.4GHz
RAM: Corsair 4GB running at speeds of DDR2-832.5 (395.9Mhz), timings set at 5-4-4-12 (I can’t set the 1st 5 to 4, since it’s fixed.)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M sharing 256MB RAM running at 522/524 MHz
HDD: 120GB
Operating System: Windows XP SP3

Ah! The joy of a successful overclock.