Sunday, June 24, 2012

Overclocking Dell Inspiron 1000

Yesterday I was cleaning-up my hard drive (yeah, it happens from time to time :D) and found a screenshot of SetFSB with the clock generator needed for my old Dell Inspiron 1000 (which I sold a couple of months ago) to be overclocked. I decided to publish it here, on my blog, so other people can find it, too. I remember when I was overclocking this laptop, there was absolutely no info about it on the internet! I had to experiment, but eventually I found out that the clock generator is ICS952001AF. Settings FSB to 188MHz allowed me to run the Celeron inside to 2.8GHz from the stock 2.2GHz! I don't have any benchmarks or stress tests, but I remember 2.8GHz was the max stable frequency I got. I used it for half an year without any problems. Inspiron tends to get a little too hot, though. So use on your own risk!