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NEED ADVICE ON OVERCLOCKING!!!

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hodgenutts

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Need some advice on overclocking. I currently have an ECS P4M900T-M Version 1 Motherboard. Was able to pick it up cheap as I am a college student. Currently have a P4 641 Cedar mill 3.2 Ghz Processor and looking to move to an e 2140 as they aren't real costly. I'm new to overclocking and started playing in the BIOS with Bus Speed. The only option I can see for speed is the system speed at 200 Mhz. If I go above 220 mhz. System locks up. I don't think this is a heat issue, so what would cause this brick wall. Also you can raise the procesor voltage slightly with the BIOS settings as well as slightly raise the voltage on the ram. Does anyone know why I can't go past 220 MHZ with my BIOS settings???? Any help would be highly appreciated!!! Thanks!
 
I'm pretty sure you need to use a memory divider. If you have a cheap board, you probably can't use one (your board sounds cheap...ECS typically can't overclock).

AFAIK, people with that chip use a 1:2 divider and leave their RAM at stock settings, to achive a 'double' overclock (3.2ghz from 1.6).
 
Originally posted by: hodgenutts
Is there any other options besides the memory divider, and would it be called anything else under the BIOS?
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I'm not sure, but really, I'm telling you, ECS boards *never* overclock...sorry!
 
Need to check the manual for the 1:1 memory divider setting. You may also want to GOOG CPU pin-mod. With the mod, the CPU will boot using 266MHz FSB instead of 200MHz. I think the ECS board will post with this mod.
 
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