How to overclock MBP 2011 - i7-2720QM CPU from 2.2GHz to 2.4GHz ?

[AppleMacFinder]

Build a monster of a desktop for a quarter of the price of the laptop, and leave it at home doing the number crunching while your MBP has other purposes, you'll benefit the community much, much more that way.

Thank you for the advice.
However, I spent all my cash on the Macbook Pro - it will take some time to save up again.

Also, thanks to Sandy Bridge architecture, there is a quite tough competition between desktops and laptops - something that was unimaginable five years before! So I don't think it would be possible
to build a system that costs just a quarter of the MBP (near $600) and has a higher performance.

If we would take a look at desktop processors which have 4 physical + 4 logical cores (like MBP's CPU has):
the cheapest desktop i7 processor - i7-2600 - already costs 300$.

 

[snaky69]

Thank you for the advice.
However, I spent all my cash on the Macbook Pro - it will take some time to save up again.

Also, thanks to Sandy Bridge architecture, there is a quite tough competition between desktops and laptops - something that was unimaginable five years before! So I don't think it would be possible
to build a system that costs just a quarter of the MBP (near $600) and has a higher performance.

If we would take a look at desktop processors which have 4 physical + 4 logical cores (like MBP's CPU has):
the cheapest desktop i7 processor - i7-2600 - already costs 300$.

My "quarter" of the price was just a fraction thrown out of the blue. But you'd be able to build a desktop that would blow the MBP out of the water without breaking a sweat for much cheaper.

Also, in my personal experience, BOINC runs much better on Windows than it does on OS X. I've never been able to get it to run stably to my liking on SL, I haven't tried it in Lion yet, but I'm guessing it wouldn't be much better.

It's a good cause you're supporting, but overclocking your CPU(and thus voiding your warranty) isn't quite the best way to go at it.

 

[old-wiz]

just wondering...

if the next threads opened by the OP will be something like:

Help, I monkeyed with my EFI and now my MBP will not boot.

Help, my logic board is fried after modifying EFI.

Help, my MBP caught fire with new EFI.

 

[Kanthony]

this guy strikes me as the kind of person that would spend thousands of hours turning a nickel into a dime. if you want to do it for the sake of doing it , then do it.
good luck

when and if it does fail, i hope macrumors keeps a record of his shenanigans and tells apple before he takes his machine in for repair.

I really hate people like you.

Right on OP, where there's a will there's a way.

 

[chuffman15]

I really hate people like you.

Right on OP, where there's a will there's a way.

get in line. your not the first and definitely not the last to person to hate me.
i said "good luck". thats encouragement, right?

 

[aaronhoyle]

get in line. your not the first and definitely not the last to person to hate me.
i said "good luck". thats encouragement, right?

Way to spell "you're". It seems usually true that assh*les are more often than not dumb as all hell.