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o'c a 2Ghz Nwood P4...in a dell?

dug777

dug777

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Big ol' Dimension 8200, 2ghz p4 nwood, 256Mb rdram, 40gb maxtor HDD- runs like a cow thanx 2 the drastic lack of RAM 😛

But 2 the point, (purely academic as if i fried it i suspect i'd b payin my own rent 🙂 ) can u o'c dells- i suspect from what i've randomly noticed on the forums that the BIOS doesn't have any o'c options-so would i have 2 get a hacked BIOS?

Couldn't i just use a software o'c app (tho that wouldn't let you play around with the voltages would it?)?

the stock dell cooling seems pretty hardcore 4 a prebuilt-got a funky green cowling over the cpu that exhausts out the back-with a chunky 120mm fan at the exit quietly doin it's business...but i've no idea what hsf/fan combo is under it, or the sort of temps as mbm wont work..might give hwinfo32 a go l8r.

Neway any comments appreciated, what sort of o'cs were people getting on the 2ghz northwoods backin in the day?

Cheers folks 🙂
 
Very unlikely you can do any kind of overclock on the dell. You can't just get a software program to overclock it. The bios would have to support it, and it won't...
 
You cannot OC dell motherboards, they dont support clockspeed changes.

The only way to OC is to do the wire trick to make the motherboard detect the cpu as a higher FSB. Even then its a huge overclock and not likely to work, as well as running the risk of doing the mod wrong and ruining your hardware.
 
The only way to overclock that is to drop a faster Northwood in there and get more ram.

There are programs like softFSB or CPUFSB, I have no idea if they will work on a Dell or kill it.
 
Originally posted by: LTC8K6
The only way to overclock that is to drop a faster Northwood in there and get more ram.

There are programs like softFSB or CPUFSB, I have no idea if they will work on a Dell or kill it.
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they dont work, the motherboard doesnt have the clockgens to change the fsb to anything but 400/533/800.
 
wiremod for voltage and break off that pin to change the FSB.

research your chip's stepping first though.

or just buy a faster CPU?
 
RDRAM scales beautifully doesnt it? i have the remnants of a old dell at home, my friend sold it too me but by then his 1.8Ghz p4 with 256mb RDRAM had turned into a P4 2.4A, 768mb RDRAM with a peltier cooling system and my 9500pro in it. ive had it up to 2.8ghz pretty easy but it only gets used to play champ manager and email/internet so i put it back down to 2.4

oh yes i should say....the mother board in the dell was a gigabyte P4 titan (of the RDRAM and intel 850 chipset variety) and he was moving all the bits from the dell case to the new thermaltake he bought...of ocurse it never fit, so he bought the same mother board again only this time it wasnt dell specific. and he also needed to buy a new PSU
 
cheers folks- looks like the the dell o'c just ain gunna happen...it doesnt sound like the kinda thing i could do quietly on the side, without the oldies finding out 😛

Out of sheer curiosity- what were ppl hitting with 2Ghz nwoods back in the day?
 
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