overclock Sony Laptop

[kingdan]

hey,
im new to this overclocking thing. I was wondering if u can overclock a Sony Vaio VGN-FS742/W.
im running on Centrino 1.73, 512 megs of RAM and 80 gigs of harddrive. another question, even though i have 512 of RAM how come in the Systems tab it says i have 504 of RAM?
thanks

[Jonathan Fu]

[quote name=\'kingdan\' post=\'88405\' date=\'Feb 16 2006, 03:23 PM\']hey,
im new to this overclocking thing. I was wondering if u can overclock a Sony Vaio VGN-FS742/W.
im running on Centrino 1.73, 512 megs of RAM and 80 gigs of harddrive. another question, even though i have 512 of RAM how come in the Systems tab it says i have 504 of RAM?
thanks
[/quote]
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[font=\"Verdana\"]Sometimes the readings may be incorrect, or the ram hasn't been installed correctly, and or BIOS issues.

And to answer your other question, you should not overclock a Laptop. Reason, it can overheat and "kill" so to speak, all your computer parts, and render your laptop useless.

-Jonathan Fu
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[muhahaha]

[quote name=\'Jonathan Fu\' post=\'101545\' date=\'Mar 26 2006, 11:53 PM\'][color=\"#000066\"]
[font=\"Verdana\"]Sometimes the readings may be incorrect, or the ram hasn't been installed correctly, and or BIOS issues.

And to answer your other question, you should not overclock a Laptop. Reason, it can overheat and "kill" so to speak, all your computer parts, and render your laptop useless.

-Jonathan Fu
[/font][/color][/b] http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />[/quote]
lol i did it with my old laptop, poor little thing was smoking!!  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' /> and render it usless, well thats not completly true, i used mine as a food tray http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />