Overclocking Dell inspiron 1520 :)
 

Going to crack this sumbitch open and beat it up a bit :)

Was mine, gave to my parents, (now they have a macbook :shock: ) gave it back, time to pwn it.

Will get internal shots up ASAP but, I figure there has to be a way to increase vcore to the cpu like a FB or vid mod correct? I will try to find the clock generator (if there even is one?) for raising cpu mhz in setfsb

Specs if I recall correctly
T7500 good HW boints
8600mGT
2x1gb 667

:thumbsup:

Might have to put a pot on it? :)

read it up, although I'm sure you're already on that or have been to that site lol.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hard...ed-photos.html

This post might help.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/5267749-post130.html

rev maynard ftw :) awesome find man, never even looked for it

sweet how they got setfsb working by solding the pin 11 to grnd :)

That is pretty sweet... See if you can somehow mount a phase or waterblock to that mofo... If the chip sits where it is accessable under the kb, just remove the kb and use a usb one so it's out of the way and maybe get the pot on there.. :thumbsup:

that the plan! :) def takin pics.

This is awesome Splig. I can't wait to see what the hell you can pull off with this notebook. Have you ran any baseline numbers?

its on vista x32 and prettttty bogged down. Going to install win7 tonight but have to fix the DVD drive first. I figure XP would be a pita to get all the drivers installed on and Im going to be so much higher in frequency it wont matter the small hit :)

Xp will go in, and the drivers are going to be there... :thumbsup:

All you need for benching that thing:

Chipset
Display
Ricoh or SDcard

I would strip the cover plate off, disable the touchpad in bios and remove it, the modem, speakers, and wifi card. Make sure the battery is not being used.

If yours has a second SATA port, then you might be able to run raid0... but only if it will run the intel matrix crapola. Not the greatest raid, but better than single drive..

After all that, the motherboard and chip should be exposed so you can cool it how ever you want. :Hi:

EDIT: In order to get the top plate off iirc, you have to remove the monitor, but can remount it after the plate is removed.

good Tips :) I might as well go XP then. Thanks face.

np, mang. If you run into any snags getting something off or working lmk.... it's what I do. :cool3:

uh oh clock generator cy28547lfxc cannot be supported by setfsb :(
Tore is all apart last night and found it

http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell...le-setfsb.html

I think that's what the pin mod is for.... Then use a similar gen. I would try the pin mod, then look at that thread to see which gen that guy used. ;)

word, im not giving up. Took 2 hours to get at the damn thing.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hard...ml#post5879433

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hard...-examples.html

archiving links here for later reading :)

Hi,
I have also the inspiron 1520 with t7100 and I want to overclock the processor. here are many links, but I dont understand much of them, because I have small english and I dont know much about overclocking.

can someone please make an easy guide how to overclock the inspiron 1520? would be really nice (the temp from the processor is really cold, dont goes over 50°)

hey mate, there is no easy way to do it. You can try throttlestop 5.0 and up the vid and multi that way but for me its super unstable...There is software I believe batch files that up the processor speed to a set frequency but I havent been able to find the link.

which os do you have? I can try that with throttlestop 5 on windows xp and windows 7, but do you know what I have to set there exactly?

and cy28547lfxc is the pll? but it isnt supported by clockgen and setfsb? are u sure? I will search tonight the pll with the newest setfsb, maybe it is now supported.

from batch files I didnt found anything, I just found that thing with pll pinmod (but I dont understand what that is lol) and how to overclock easily the gpu with riva tuner. thats all. I also found that http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community...ht-420164.html (its in german). there say a lot of guys that processors with santa rosa are easily to overclock with setfsb (they overclock it, but it looks like that our mainboard dell 0uxxxxx (forgot the name) isnt supported.

one of that guy overclocked his t7100 up to 2100mhz and it didnt take much of temperature.

throttle stop allows you to change the multi

ok but it is risky to change the multi with throttle stop? how much more temperature comes? and do I need to disable speedstep in the bios? and how about pin modding?
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hard...-possible.html
http://www.starless.nl/pinmod.html

hm I cant get more then 10 multiplier? and I also cant up VID? Did you try the thing with the pin mod? someone got this working with a inspiron 1525 http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell...overclock.html

but when this is also possible on inpiron 1520, we still cant overclock with setfsb, because setfsb dont support the pll, right?

yeah its not supported

thats bad. throttle stops dont work for me, and seems to be unstable, pll is not supported, and nobody ever get the thing with pin mod. i would say the inspiron 1520 is really the worst notebook to overclock -.-

indeed, only luck I had there were files called like 2.5 2.6 2.7 etc and you double click it and got that speed. I looked for an hour last night couldnt find it sorry

were the files specially made for the inspiron 1520?

and how do you get the pll cypress cy28547? did you took off the inspiron and looked at the mainboard?

ok now I got it with throttle stop (trottle stop didnt got it that I disabled speedstep but however) and I dont know what you did there false but for me its stable. for vid I take 1,175 V. but the temperature goes a little bit too high, I guess its because the high vid.

and by the way, the pll cypress cy28547 isnt even the right pll.