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Dell to Allow Overclocking on Core 2 Duo Notebooks

Well, not on all of them, but on some of them it seems; namely the new XPS M1710 notebook that we reviewed back in July. This new model will feature the Core 2 Duo T7600G or T7200 CPUs and 512MB GeForce Go 7950 GTX or 256MB GeForce Go 7900 GS cards from NVIDIA. And if you get the daddy-mack configuration, Dell is going to give you the keys to overclocking that dual core processor all on your own.