Overclocking a craptop?

[The VCR King]

Would it be possible to overclock my dying GateWay MT6730 laptop? It is currently running at 1.60GHz but I want to take it up to 2.00GHz. Would this be possible or will this piece of crap catch on fire?

Thanks

 

[johnb35]

You can't overclock an OEM laptop, bios is locked down.

 

[The VCR King]

You can't overclock an OEM laptop, bios is locked down.

Well that sucks. Might as well delete this thread then. Thanks though.

 

[beers]

I thought you said that laptop was dead anyway ?

I've seen crap like clockgen work for about 100 MHz but you introduce a huge amount of instability.

You could just replace the CPU with a T7200 which would give you both 2 GHz as well as 4 MB L2 cache.

 

[DMGrier]

The issue with over clocking even if possible on a laptop will result in parts running hotter and no way to provide additional cooling. You run the risk of burning up the laptop and shortening the life span.