Dell Notebook Overclocking...

Dell offers several choices for CPU on its Merom based Core 2 Duo Gaming Notebook the XPS M1710. Among these choices is the T7600 2.33ghz 4mb cache 667mhz fsb AND the T7600G 2.33ghz 4mb cache 667mhz fsb. So I had to ask: why is the T7600g a full $275 dollars more than its ?regular? brother.

I asked a Dell XPS representative what was going on and found out that the T7600G allows the customer to OC the CPU. The representative didn't anwser when I asked to what extent the CPU could be overclocked, nor whether it would be under warranty after OCing or not.

This all took play a month ago. Ten Minutes ago I saw a review on PCmag.com of the same model with the T7600g and a Bluray drive:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2070311,00.asp

On the front page It mentions that the user can OC the cpu to 3.16ghz, yes thats correct 3.16ghz!

Considering that Intel's lineup for mobile CPUs has an exponential price increase as the clock speed goes up this is quite exciting.

They did mention that the performance difference between the 3.16ghz equipped PC and the 2.33ghz version is %15 percent. Maybe its just me and my inexperience with overclocking but a 35 percent increase in clock speed resulting in a 15 percent performance increase seems strange.

Perhaps its just the specific test and its quirks, how it handles multiple threads, or a bottleneck in the RAM, but I would like to know what you think.

No matter what, I havent heard of an Overclocked cpu in a laptop before, but it sounds like technology that would be adopted by VoodooPC or Alienware.

I think that this is a prompt for a discussion on Laptop overclocking (if theres enough to talk about on it)

farewell for now