Intel Pentium M 725 Dothan 1.6ghz @ 2.13ghz

Has any one heard of the pin mod for the intel pentium m 725 dothan?

I was just wondering would this work and be stable? Or would the laptop simply overheat? I want to do this with my fiancee's Dell Inspiron 8600, but want to be absolutely sure it will work first.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

If you haven't heard of it you can check it out at the url below:

*notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3226&article=pin+mod

Your link doesn't work

But I guess by pin mod you mean to set BSEL to 533MHz from 400MHz, and not mod for volts? In which case it probably wouldn't work as after a quick google it looks like the laptop runs an 855PM chipset, which is only good for 400MHz as far as I can tell from here.

So while the CPU could almost certainly do it without breaking a sweat (I have a 715A which can do 2.4GHz on stock volts!), the motherboard will probably let you down, either by not overclocking that far or by simply not understanding the new BSEL configuration.

But if you've seen 855PM's running 533MHz fine, or I'm plain wrong about the laptop using it, feel free to have a go

Yea... I was refering to the bsel, but I'm unsure of the motherboard running at 533mhz. Is there a way to find out... possibly a benching program that could test the board?

There aren't any that can change BSEL.. You might be able to up the clocks with Clockgen or something similar, but it could cause havoc with other things, like PCI dividers.. To be honest I have no idea if 855PM has AGP/PCI locks..

I'd say you were pretty much out of luck, I'm afraid

Oh wait, someone here had a go using Clockgen with the same laptop, and he had no luck.. And it seems 855PM does use dividers, so if it doesn't have more than 1/3 for PCI you'll be running that bus at 44MHz, which is very dangerous territory and there's a good chance of corrupting the drive and generally ruining your day.

Seems a lost cause to me..