thoughts on this situation

[islandtechengineers]

hey everyone. I have a 2/3 year old system im trying to get the best out of. the problem is= dude, its a dell. the gforce i have no problem overclocking, but the CPU. I know its difficult to OC a dell and not to many people have attempted it (i've been searching the inet for a while now).

one things that has me in questions is = its an intel based MOBO = D845EPT2 with a 1.7 400 FSB p4 installed. the BIOS (which i currently cant tweak for peanuts, because dell wont let me) does see the chip running at 400 MHZ at 17 multiplied 100, but whenever i run any software that tells me about the current system settings, the FSB registers at 100.

Bios registers at 400 but os registers fsb at 100; anyone with thoughts on that?

 

[bcook3]

Here's a thought. Stop wasting your time trying to OC that Dell dude And I mean before you have a NBD.
Seriously though, maybe you can find a BIOS at a tweaker site somewhere that has been written to defeat Hell's play nice BIOS???
Good luck,
bcook3

 

[BigBadBiologist]

Try doing a search for Dell here. There are some posts that will lead you to software OCing programs. That is the only way that you can overclock and even this doesn't work very well. The other issue is that you have a p4 1.7 which doesn't overclock very well even on good motherboards.

The 400 FSB thing is that intel CPUs are "quad pumped." What this means is that the FSB is really 100MHz, however, the amount of data being sent across is equivalent to like a PIII running at 400MHz FSB.

 

[islandtechengineers]

thank you very muuuuuchoooooo. what i made the decision to do is get a new mobo and cpu, while im waiting for that to arrive, i'll take this current dell setup and see what i can do with it. kinda like my hondas... when buying a motor i like to push the old to the limits and beyond before i drop the new in......

 

[BigBadBiologist]

just be careful if you do try to upgrade the mobo if you are using your dell case. Dell power supplies typically use prorietary pin outs on the ATX header. If you try to connect it to a standard ATX mobo, there is a good chance you will burn everything up. You may need to replace the power supply as well. Either that, or some companies make Dell to standard ATX converters.