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Old 03-21-2004, 03:48 AM
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Default Centrino tweaking
Im about to get my centrino laptop upgrade (128$ WOOT)

and I was wondering

any utils to push the limit?
any windows reg tweaks to improve anything?
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Old 03-21-2004, 12:11 PM
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same as any old comp as far as i know.. and even if you could OC it, i wouldn't...
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Old 03-21-2004, 05:57 PM
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Yeah, the Centrino is made to run slow.
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Old 03-21-2004, 09:07 PM
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google CPUMSR

the bottleneck for most of the laptops are the HDDs
if you ever find 7200rpm 2.5" HDDs (assuming they exist)
get it if you really want that extra performance
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Old 03-22-2004, 10:46 AM
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Jeez that'll be loud as hell and burn up like a fireball. (at least for my friend who has a 7200rpm 40gb in his laptop.. it get really hot)
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Old 03-22-2004, 03:09 PM
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there were some problems with the Hitachi travelstar 60GB 7200rpm drives

they fixed the issue now
so i dont think the reliability isnt an issue anymore

i want to upgrade the 30GB 4200rpm drive on my X31 to 5400rpm w/ 8mb cache
that will be a good boost to the performance without draining a lot of battery power
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Old 03-22-2004, 03:17 PM
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yeah that would be a nice performance boost..
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Old 03-22-2004, 03:55 PM
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My laptop has one of those 7200, but the ATA is 100, and it gets HOT. It's a 60GB drive, but it's still quite slow....even with the P4 3.06 in it...
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