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Re: Toughbook Overclocking
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:24 am
by countrydrake
I have to agree, I've always found too many laptops a bit on the hot side in first place even without going outdoor yet
on a bit of offtopic note but one of the major reason I hated most laptops newer than the classic P-M or any G4 these years is because companies seem to keep wanting to put the 45W cpus in even although intel clearly markets 10-18W cpus (for a few years no less I should say) and I've always found such keyboards too hot for me to use for any good length of time personally :-|
Re: Toughbook Overclocking
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:49 pm
by ADOR
Reckless wrote:I felt that Panasonic is under-clocking things as well probably for a good reason. I just felt that in some environments like a highly air conditioned office it wouldn't hurt to run it out of spec. I design consumer products for a living and heat is one of the things I am constantly aware of. I always felt they were under clocking the bus as well which was my bigger concern than processor speed. Processor speed is more important for applications that require raw power but most of the applications we use day to day (chrome, outlook, word, acrobat, etc) would benefit from the increase in bus speed.
I was looking to do it via software without any hardware modifications. I have used SetFSB for my other laptops with no harm. Unfortunately they don't mention anything about the Panasonic chipset so I did try monkeying around to figure out which chipset to set it to but nothing worked for me.
This thread is supposed to be less about why and more about how. I am sure there is some genius out there who has figured this out.
The toughbooks that would really have a problem with this are the passively cooled models, not all of them have a fan. (CF-25,27,28,29,30,17,M34,07,18,19,T1-5, W2-5, Y2-4 are the passively cooled models that come to mind.)
The only one I have seen that was underclocked so far was the CF-07 Brick. It's a 600 Mhz P3 underclocked to 300 Mhz. They used the low power models on the other passively cooled toughbooks starting on the 29/18 models.
I see no problems trying to do it with software, but would stay away from any hardware overclocking mods. (pin mod for example).
What model were you wanting to test this out on?
Re: Toughbook Overclocking
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:15 am
by Reckless
CF-N10
Re: Toughbook Overclocking
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:29 am
by ADOR
I was looking for more info on the Let's note N10 but coming up shy. I see they swapped to sandy bridge intels some where down the line. I found the main page but Google translate but it's not loading it tonight. Do you know the full specs to see what you have to work with.
Re: Toughbook Overclocking
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:37 pm
by Reckless
Forgive me but I don't know what bridge it is (Intel is changing stuff faster than I can follow). I have an i5-2520 2.5 GHz. I just ordered a CF-AX2. I would love to overclock that as I bet Intel has under rated their ultrabook chips.