Befuddling question regarding overclocking.

[xSeongminx]

So in my spare computer, I have an ECS board and am about to purchase an AGP card for it. Well, I was just wondering, I know that ECS boards are lousy overclockers but what is preventing me from running my Celeron 775 at 800 instead of the 533fsb? Since the motherboard is rated to run Core 2 Duo's and Pentium D chips that run at 800fsb, shouldn't the ECS have no problem running the Celeron at the rated max of the board which is 800?

If this isn't clear, which it may not be since I've been prepping for classes tomorrow, my basic question is this. What is preventing me from running my 533mhz processor at 800mhz in an 800mhz board?

 

[Acanthus]

In theory nothing.

But in theory, communism works.

ECS is terrible, they even make lousy fisbees, i know from experience.

If it doesnt auto-configure the FSB and you can change it to 800, it should work given the chip is capable of that very large overclock.

 

[xSeongminx]

Any other thoughts? Thanks Acanthus.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

The board will auto detect the 533mhz bus, and you likely won't have any options in bios to change it, nor the voltages to support it. If you give the model # of the board you will get more specific answers

 

[xSeongminx]

Poop, I can't believe that I forgot to write the model down.

It's a P4M800Pro-M V2.0

Here is the link at newegg.com.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135048

 

[Markfw]

Forget OC'ing with that board....

 

[AllWhacked]

You can always try to pinmod it. You can read about it Here and Here

The object is to trick the motherboard to run the CPU at a higher FSB than it is supposed to. I succesfully pinmodded my e4300 from 1.8Ghz to 2.4GHz and have been running stable since January.

However, the instructions on the links above are for the e4300 but I think there was one poster who was trying to pinmod their Pentium 805. I think he was successful so you might have some luck with your celeron.

And as said by others, ECS boards (especially this one) are not very good for overclocking. But you can manually adjust the FSB in the BIOS to as high as 300. However, without the pinmod when you push the FSB too high, your AGP, SATA HDD, & LAN become corrupted.

 

[Rottie]

that really make me sad about ECS is not good for OC