Worlds fastest 5660

wha???

...like...where...did you get this? Ive got a 5660 myself....detail..

whats the point of this thread? has something changed from the previous one?

Great job Henrik. You and your 5660 have walked the path that few of us are brave enough to follow. I'm sure many of us have tweaked, upgraded and overclocked our desktops. But not many of us would pull that off with our laptops. You have taken your 5660 past it's known ability's. It probably the same feeling as taking an engine from the factory rated at 185hp and pulling 400 from it. Congrats. And may your laptop run strong for many years to come

this is interesting

so, what about a 2.4ghz cpu?

Can you get my pinto to run low 12 1/4 miles?

Henrik

Fantastic i love people not being scared.

Let me add a few things of my findings, hoping that will help the plot :

- first of all, DO NO USE Partition magic. Do not want to start a flame war here, and many users will report no problems at all, but majority of this 'voices' will speak for vfat or ntfs file systems. I have the following partition types:

- ntfs
- vfat
- ext2fs
- ext3fs
- reiserfs
- reiserfs4 beta
- afs
- ufs
- ufs2
- ufs+softupdates
- solaris
- jfs
- xfs

So i my reflexion is while it can work pretty flawlessly on vfat and ntfs ( Which ? There is at least 7 different versions of it, bet M$ forgotten to tell that ), the other types are not good. IT will corrupt file system once out of 4, averagely. To resize reiserfs, use the reiserfs tool on linux / unix, to resize jfs, use the jfs tools etc ...

As well on your research on the Bios system of a 5660, i own such a machine , but it is non HT. A P4 2.4 non ht.

But here is the 'theory':

When intel released the roadmap of p4, the HT technology wasn't ready fully yet, but present. Considering that it cost 2 times the same amount of money to a Founder to have 2 different design engraved for the same processor, INTEL decided to release the P4 with HT, but with a 'soldering iron tweak' on first model to disable the HT technology. In fact, as linux reports it ( CPU0 present, CPU1 hadware disabled), ALL p4 have 'built-in' HT technology, but disabled on lower models and for commercial reasons, obviously.

The mainboard of the 5660 and of the 5670 is indeed a 845E ( Brookdale) supporting indeed HT, and as the file /proc/cpuinfo on linux system shows, the ht flag of the processor is present too.

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 2399.966
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips : 4734.97

I do not believe power supply and components restrictions, AT ALL. Laptops are designed to be easily upgradable by the CONSTRUCTOR, and declinaisons of variable configurations options are possible only if main components do not vary from one to the other. If the mainboard and its components had really changed, this will be reflected by the probes on linux. ( no, the constructor do not tinker with the mainboard, only the original manufacturer does ). Off course all steps are taken to make sure the end user will not find out. Unfortunately the end user is anybody from the reseller to us.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 11)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 5600
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [e4] #09 [a104]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 96
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: e0100000-e01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff


Now henrik, i will be very happy to obtain your modified bios as i am gonna put a 3.06 HT p4 in, just to satisfy my curiosity.

And ohhh, Henrik, You definately Rock !

I am ready to answer all these claims.

What I need to do though is get the ReiserFX partition to "Grow" to fill the free space (unpartitioned) before it. here is a little diagram.

<------- NTFS-----------------><Nothing><----ReiserFS--->

I tried using "resize_reiserfs" but that just said it couldn't resize to filesystem as it was already the full size of the partiton....

Any ideas?
Cheers,
NS

(on another note, I cant resize the drive on my desktop machine, it just keeps saying "Bad filename (file 9), run chkdsk" yet chkdsk says there is nothing wrong (even when running a 5 stage check).

NS

The memory timing this isn't much use at all though as it only takes effect when you boot into Windows. We need a real BIOS control over the RAM timing as most of the time I am in Linux.

NS

NightShade

Umm, how many partitions does linux has ? You can resize going ahaed the disk but cannot in the other way as you wanted. To do that , ya will need to reinstall linux....
As well where is your swap file ?

resizing reiserfs is possible and is best done having unmounted the partition.

Henrik, thks got your bios, just posting here a md5sum of it, i hope you have such a tool on windows and can post yours, just want to make sure the file is unalterated. Thank you.

363474f431a8185ec9944b2071f01de5 kernel/bios/hybridbios.zip

size : 352K kernel/bios/hybridbios.zip

While you at it, maybe your bios tweaking has told you why the setting of the disks are locked : try setting the primary disk to another udma mode, same for the optical device. This says has been locked by the Administrator ( hehe whos that ? phoenix engineer ? ). Is that a lock / protection ? is that tweakable ?
Thanks again.

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz @ 2400 MHz | Mem usage: 113.5/503.6 MB (23%) | Swap usage: 0.0/494.1 MB (0%) | Disk usage(HITACHI_DK23DA-40): 27.7/38.6 GB (72%) | Uptime: 5 hrs 37 mins 1 sec

XFree86: 4.3.0 | Monitor: TFT SXGA | Videocard: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Rade | Res: 1400x1050, 24-bits | Audio: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Au

Kernel: Linux 2.6.0-test6 | Distro: Debian/GNU | Local Time: 15:27:02 CEST | Connection: eth0 Received: 11.3 MiB, 15767 packets Sent: 1.9 MiB, 15779 packets | Users: 4 | Load: 0.30

I noticed the Admin stuff in the BIOS too. Highly annoying.

I don't use a swap file partiton in Linux. I never gained from having one and just found it was a waste of space.

Linux is just on the 1 ReiserFS partiton at the end of the drive.

I can boot off one of my other CDs and modify the drive from there, I just need to figure out how to resize the partiton.

He doesn't need to post the MD5 sum of the file as it is a ZIP file, and if the archive is damaged then a file will fail the CRC check when it is extracted from the archive.

NS