First thing I did was open her up to see if there were any dead pixels. There are none! Woot! That was honestly my biggest concern.

Did a clean reformat with Windows Vista Business, installed the Ram, and its purring like a kitten. I worked the computer for about 6 hours of heavy lifting. Multiple installs, downloads, transfers to burn everything in.

Now that I have it, I want to OC the processor at 2.8Ghz. Should I use the numbers you gave me on my "OCing the processor" thread?

Yes but remind me what I told you to do again?

Remember that if your OC settings stop the system from booting they will automatically reset after 3 failed boots.

I also want to overclock my M17x with P8600 to 2.8 or 2.9. Any help would be great. I set the FSB in the Bios to 1333 and got 2.93GHZ but not sure how safe it will be. So I changed it back.

With the Kingston memory, when you go into the bios unlink the memory and fsb. Then try 2 settings (fsb:mem) 1248:1248 and 1248:1333. Both should achieve 2.8Ghz but you'll need to test it first. If you try OC'ing with your 1066 memory then I would suggest leaving the memory alone. The timings with the memory will go out of whack any higher than 1066.

The key with OC'ing is making sure you don't end up with a bad memory divisor. It will just cause instability. A 1:2 ratio seems to be stable with these systems. I ideally 1:1 would give us the best performance but it's impossible to achieve with these systems. Use a program like cpu-z to chek you memory divisor if you don't feel like doing the math.

On last thing. If you get failed boots because of a bad OC it will automatically reset itself to default after the third failed boot. Don't both trying to find the cmos battery and unplugging it. Although that works it will set the whole bios to factory default versus just the OC settings. Good luck!

congrats bro. sounds awesome!!!

I tried a few things an it seems like the fsb at 1333 seemed to work really well. just don't want to burn anything up. you know?

thanks for the info bro

Do you have the 1066 memory or the 1333? Look at the quote below for the info.

Let me know how this works. I would do it with the Kingston memory. Don't bother with the cheap 1006 stuff.

check your temps with hwmonitor. Download and run OCCT. When you test it against your cpu it should run easily for 20 minutes without a failure. If it fails the OCCT test then the OC isn't going to be stable for you when you run games.

i have 1066 memory. ill try the OCCT see what happens. Thanks bro!!!

Yes then it's best to only change your memory if stability becomes a concern.

Edit: Another good test is the Crysis benchmark. That fails quickly with an unstable cpu OC.

ok sounds good. so change the memory in my bios not the fsb right?

no the other way around. leave the memory alone.

ok thanks. i was running the occt and the video messed up but it was set on the 9400m. i also have the original video driver.

I am reformatting again, and after I install the graphics drivers from the nvidia website, it only shows the 9400, not the dual 260s... any ideas?

this place is good. http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index

I think this is the best one here: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/top...a-64bit-nvidia

It was the BIOS, hybrid was disabled. All is good now... and NWGuru, yes, I got the 1333Mhz ram...