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Title: Need help with Processor speed issues
Post by: Amethyst / Sa5uke on November 10, 2007, 12:57:30 PM

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I have a Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Surely its supposed to be faster than that?

Title: Need help with Processor speed issues
Post by: guestolo on November 10, 2007, 09:55:00 PM

Is this a laptop, appears to be

You may have the T5500 processor

Here's a breakdown
http://www.intel.com/products/processor_nu...rt/core2duo.htm (http://\"http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/core2duo.htm\")

Title: Need help with Processor speed issues
Post by: Amethyst / Sa5uke on November 11, 2007, 08:04:57 AM

[quote name=\'guestolo\' post=\'404231\' date=\'Nov 10 2007, 08:55 PM\']Is this a laptop, appears to be

You may have the T5500 processor

Here's a breakdown
http://www.intel.com/products/processor_nu...rt/core2duo.htm (http://\"http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/core2duo.htm\")[/quote]

Yes it is. Dam. Is there anyway i can push it to 1.7ghz?

Title: Need help with Processor speed issues
Post by: JB Lee on November 11, 2007, 08:14:40 AM

You could go read up on overclocking...

But i think your best option would be to purchase additional or replacement RAM.

Title: Need help with Processor speed issues
Post by: Small Shoe Magoo on November 11, 2007, 05:30:17 PM

Well... he needs the processing speed for a game requirement, so you should go overclock it. Some BIOS menu's give you the option to overclock from there.

Title: Need help with Processor speed issues
Post by: Amethyst / Sa5uke on November 12, 2007, 05:53:19 PM

[quote name=\'Zack The Man\' post=\'404420\' date=\'Nov 11 2007, 04:30 PM\']Well... he needs the processing speed for a game requirement, so you should go overclock it. Some BIOS menu's give you the option to overclock from there.[/quote]

I have no idea how to overclock lol. I need it explained. Sorry. Will it damage my laptop?

Title: Need help with Processor speed issues
Post by: Amethyst / Sa5uke on November 27, 2007, 04:21:33 AM

[quote name=\'Amethyst / Sa5uke\' post=\'404636\' date=\'Nov 12 2007, 04:53 PM\']I have no idea how to overclock lol. I need it explained. Sorry. Will it damage my laptop?[/quote]


Overclocking my Laptop is impossible. Please close this topic. Thanks /laugh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':lol:\' />