OC'ing a 440BX-2 Mobo with p3 450 cpu

[Nocheez]

now my manual shows what jumper to move in order to choose clock speed, but when i do it, the option just isn't on my bios. any help is appreciated!

 

[LXi]

What motherboard is that? Can you give the specific brand and model?

 

[Nocheez]

yeah, it's the intel SE440BX-2 mobo, one of the first that supported the p3. anyways, i change the jumper but in the bios under "maintenence" there is supposed to be a field that lets me choose the processor speed (according to the manual), but alas, there is no field such as that.

 

[urbantechie]

You can't overclock with that board. Intel was the first to not let you OC so makes sense with doing that with their boards. Other than that Intel makes great boards. The only way to OC is to use a slot-1 celeron and do the pin b21 trick. Or use a slotket.

 

[LXi]

Intel motherboards autodetects the front side bus and the world's biggest overclocking antagonist isnt about to let you OC that easily. With a P3-450, there is practically no way you will be able to overclock, unless you get an FC-PGA Pentium3/Celeron and set the front side bus using a slocket, but I doubt that will work because Intel's BX boards dont support 133MHz.

 

[urbantechie]

Actually, the P3 450 is a good chip for Ocing.

 

[Nocheez]

ok then, so how do i do it? i'm quite competent with computers, so what's that pin trick?

 

[LXi]

<<Actually, the P3 450 is a good chip for Ocing.>>

Yes, but the motherboard isnt allowing any overclock, doesnt matter if the CPU is good or not.

 

[urbantechie]

<< Yes, but the motherboard isnt allowing any overclock, doesnt matter if the CPU is good or not. >>



All I was saying that the chip is a good oc'ing chip, not that the board can.



<< ok then, so how do i do it? i'm quite competent with computers, so what's that pin trick? >>



The pin trick is only for 66MHz FSB Slot-1 CPUs.

 

[LXi]

<<All I was saying that the chip is a good oc'ing chip, not that the board can.>>

That is exactly what I meant.