Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Some clever lads hanging out at the MyHpMini forums have figured out how to overclock the Atom CPU in the NVidia ION powered HP Mini 311 right up to 2.1GHz. Apparently overclocking an Atom processor in combination with an ION chipset has proved difficult, until now.
However, 1.85GHz seems to be the confirmed stable point while some have overclocked to 2.0GHz with any problems. The secret ingredient in getting a successful overclock was using the ASRock OC Tuner software, with a few tweaks.
This has resulted in increased gaming performance in several games - no doubt since the Atom CPU is the bottleneck of any ION powered device. Combine this with a NVidia ION overclock and I imagine results would be quite significant.
Follow the link below for a guide for overclocking the HP Mini 311.
Source: MyHPMini via Liliputing
Heh, not sure what point it starts making a difference, but I remember overclocking my Samsung NC10 to 1.8 GHz and it didn’t seem to change a thing. Also managed to underclock it to 750 MHz or so (when the CPU used speedstep). I had much better luck with the stock ram than my 2GB “upgrade” however.
I still think I am going to go with a Core 2 Duo CULV laptop rather than an ION netbook. The lines between the two are quite blurred and hard to discern in areas like gaming, but I really need the extra processing power instead since much of the work I do is with processor intensive programs.
I overclocked my Samsung N140 up to 2GHz and I made a big difference in playing 720p video. It went from a slideshow to super smooth except audio was still stuttering. I doubt the machine was stable at this speed though - I only tested for a couple of mins.
Thanks for participating!
Yeah, I’ve stopped trying. It’s a pretty scary looking thing to see the “white screen of death” and have your computer tell you “Operating System Not Found” on a restart.
For 720P video I just use Samsung’s Easy Speedup Manager, I think it’s called. It’s the blue key with the running man on it. All it does is make the active window’s process high priority and put the netbook in “Always On” battery management, but it works pretty well. This little feature made this about my favorite netbook out there, I think Samsung did a pretty good job on their power management app and the little resolution booster.
It also works for other ION-Netbooks, i tried it on my POV Mobii ION:
http://minigaming.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/howto-overclock-your-cpu-with-ion/