Better CPU?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Would I see more benefit between a 2c/2t 1.6ghz cpu, or a 1c/1t 2.0ghz cpu? I have a 1.6ghz 1c/1t cpu in my laptop, Ang want a upgrade. (Yes, it's a upgradeable s1g1 laptop)

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AMD never had SMT until Ryzen. Either you have a single core or a dual core now.

If you have a dual core, you just find another dually with a higher frequency like ML-42.

 

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

6 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

AMD never had SMT until Ryzen. Either you have a single core or a dual core now.

If you have a dual core, you just find another dually with a higher frequency like ML-42.

 

 

I have a single core, that was a typo.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

8 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

AMD never had SMT until Ryzen. Either you have a single core or a dual core now.

If you have a dual core, you just find another dually with a higher frequency like ML-42.

 

 

If you are interested, currently it has a athlon 64 tf-20.

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2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

If you are interested, currently it has a athlon 64 tf-20.

Oh it's K8 duh. I missed the S1G1 , was thinking G4 which is K10.

 

Probably the TK-55 if the board will handle 35w chips.... That I'm not sure of.

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Just now, ShrimpBrime said:

Oh it's K8 duh. I missed the S1G1 , was thinking G4 which is K10.

 

Probably the TK-55 if the board will handle 35w chips.... That I'm not sure of.

I can't do 35w, the laptop had a top model of 25w.thats why I asked if the 2.0ghz single or the 1.6ghz dual would be better.

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2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

I can't do 35w, the laptop had a top model of 25w.thats why I asked if the 2.0ghz single or the 1.6ghz dual would be better.

Probably the 1.6ghz dual core Athlon or TK series. 

Have you figured out how to overclock it yet?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, ShrimpBrime said:

Probably the 1.6ghz dual core Athlon or TK series. 

Have you figured out how to overclock it yet?

No. Can you? I didn't think you could oc it.

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1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

No. Can you? I didn't think you could oc it.

Well not through the bios probably not.

But back then, the bios wasn't locked down like today's laptops either.

 

Try this program.

 

ClockGen_1.0.5.3.zip

[Helpful Tech Witch]

16 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Well not through the bios probably not.

But back then, the bios wasn't locked down like today's laptops either.

 

Try this program.

 

ClockGen_1.0.5.3.zip 327.77 kB · 0 downloads

How do I use it?

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5 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

How do I use it?

If it reads clocks, you just move the slider and hit apply and confirm clock change with cpuz.

 

Nearer the bottom of my sig list, you'll see a couple Turion II K10 chips I've OCed. 

 

You wont have any voltage controll. So you get what you get and that's it.

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2 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

If it reads clocks, you just move the slider and hit apply and confirm clock change with cpuz.

 

Nearer the bottom of my sig list, you'll see a couple Turion II K10 chips I've OCed. 

 

You wont have any voltage controll. So you get what you get and that's it.

What slider? When ever I try to click on something, I just move the window.

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Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

What slider? When ever I try to click on something, I just move the window.

Then it cant read the PLL.

 

You can try setfsb also, but have to select the proper PLL for the board.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

4 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Then it cant read the PLL.

 

You can try setfsb also, but have to select the proper PLL for the board.

Ah, it was set to none. I chose one, and then the slider showed up. One of them crashed it.

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1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Ah, it was set to none. I chose one, and then the slider showed up. One of them crashed it.

Right.

 

The PLL chip on the board will have the PLL number right on it. You want to match or very closely match that number in the program

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

5 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Right.

 

The PLL chip on the board will have the PLL number right on it. You want to match or very closely match that number in the program

 

Ok. Might wait to take it apart until I can re apply thermal paste. Thanks!

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Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Ok. Might wait to take it apart until I can re apply thermal paste. Thanks!

No problem, glad to help.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

6 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

No problem, glad to help.

Now that I think about it, would there be a similar program for a onboard GPU?

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Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Now that I think about it, would there be a similar program for a onboard GPU?

Maybe RivaTuner... R2.4C if I remember that right.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

3 hours ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Maybe RivaTuner... R2.4C if I remember that right.

It's been a bit, but I got bored and took apart the laptop. Where would the PLL chip be?

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1 hour ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

It's been a bit, but I got bored and took apart the laptop. Where would the PLL chip be?

Sorry was away.

 

Take a high resolution picture of the main board for me. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Sorry was away.

 

Take a high resolution picture of the main board for me. 

This it the highest resolution I could do on my phone 

On the first photo, the open die is the south bridge. On the second, the GPU, CPU, and VRMs are under the cooling solution.

[Guest]

Maybe a close up of this one circled.

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Maybe a close up of this one circled.

-snip-

Here ya go

[Guest]

Nah, that's not it... 

It won't say PLL on it.

The PLL ID might start with IC XXXXXXX