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MSI Wind Invities Overclocking with BIOS Update

Posted 10/24/08 at 11:20:15 AM  by Paul Lilly

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Notebook manufacturers might be finding it difficult to separate themselves from the competition in what has become an extremely crowded netbook market. It's gotten to the point where we can recite a netbook press release without having ever read it - Atom processor, solid-state drive (SSD) or hard drive, 1GB of RAM, Windows XP or Linux, and so forth. So how do you stand out from the crowd?

If you're MSI, you release a new BIOS that offers overclocking controls. With the v1.09 BIOS released this week, Wind owners can push their Wind netbook's Atom N270 processor in increments of 8 percent, 15 percent, and 24 percent over the stock speed. As is always the case with overclocking, you'll have to analyze the risk-to-reward ratio, and according to ElectricVagabond.com, the reward of a 24 percent overclock can equate to as much as a 30 percent increase in performance.

Anyone Wind owners plan on playing with the new BIOS? Hit the jump and give us your impression.

Image Credit: MSI

COMMENTS:5
TAGS: mobile, overclock, bios, msi, netbook, wind, v1.09
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avatarSo if this laptop gets

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Sat, 10/25/2008 - 9:57am

So if this laptop gets damaged does that mean that I could call tech support and complain that I broke wind?

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avatarI will give it a try

Submitted by Sever on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 12:15pm

Good post i will have to try OC my wind.

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avatarI'm sure at least 1/4 of the

Submitted by bland on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 10:38am

I'm sure at least 1/4 of the people buying these netboooks are geeks.  I bought one just to mess around with and I love.  Still don't have a actual use for it, but I still love it.

I'm also sure a good part of those geeks would overclock their wristwatchs if given the chance,  Hats off to msi for being the first, and maybe a slight overclock would be extremely safe while getting significant gains. I use my mostly for browsing the net, and it can be slow at times.

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avatarIm pretty shure you actually

Submitted by Pentium 0 on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 2:28pm

Im pretty shure you actually can overclock a Fossil Palm wristwatch.

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avatarWhy?

Submitted by jwalch.hawk on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 8:36am

Uh, what's the point?  Perhaps MSI missed the memo, but netbooks aren't performance-oriented....  Even an overclock doesn't cure the severe performance limitations.  Not that they don't serve a purpose, but...  I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that people interested in overclocking their machine probably want something more substantial than the typical netbook.

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