Ok...i read all of those guides Jack wrote, or linked me to...but i can't seem to find how to get it to work with clockgen ...ive also made a new thread in the AMD CPU section, of www.overclock.net,
You wanted some simple advice on how to get a faster, stable system. You don't seem to be bothered about frying your laptop, so why don't you just buy a new, faster computer?
You seem to think that if your current Aspire dies you'll get a new one anyway, so why don't you just get a new one? If it's the case that you'll have one bought for you, then take out the hard drive or battery then tell whoever's buying that you need a new one and give the old one away.
I used to use an Aspire at a previous job. It was ok but it didn't half run hot. If you're that serious about cooking it just make it easy on yourself and stick it in the oven at gas mark 8.
Why would overclock always make your computer faster? What is your definition of fast? The actual speed of the processor is measured in instructions per second and floating point operations per second. By your theory, a 3.2GHz pentium 4 outperforms a 2.0GHz dual core processor.
NO, you just put words in my mouth. That was wasn't i said, nor what i alluded to!
By MY "theory" if my CPU runs by default at 200*11, if i set it to 307*10, it runs faster, because it gets a 40% increase in clock speed. If i set the memory to be on a slight divider, the memory runs at 279 FSB, rather than the default 200 FSB (DDR400 > DDR558) which gets me more memory bandwidth.
How do i know it's faster? Well running an app such as Everest tells me my memory bandwidth (which increased) and running an app such as SuperPi has shown that my PC is substantially faster.
I didn't mention cores simply because thats a dodgy route to go down, but if your trying to put words in my mouth about Pentiums, you can stop now. All i'm saying is that unless you kill something or put your memory on a silly divider or can't count overclocking IS faster.