Any way to overclock cpu?

Nick259 · Jan 15, 2010

I've just upgraded my friends pc to a 4870 and it seems to be bottlenecked a bit by his e6550 @ 2.33ghz. The mobo is an OEM board (ASUS IPIBL-LA (Berkeley), he has a compaq) so there are no overclocking options in the bios. I tried SetFSB but it didn't seem to work well, basically it just slowed the computer down and made everything unresponsive. This might have been down to his RAM tho, (he has 2gb oem ram rated at 667mhz and 2gb kingston hyper x rated at 800mhz).

So basically my questions are: will the e6550 be a big bottleneck and if so is there any way I can overclock?

infrared · Jan 15, 2010

Nick259 said:
I've just upgraded my friends pc to a 4870 and it seems to be bottlenecked a bit by his e6550 @ 2.33ghz. The mobo is an OEM board (ASUS IPIBL-LA (Berkeley), he has a compaq) so there are no overclocking options in the bios. I tried SetFSB but it didn't seem to work well, basically it just slowed the computer down and made everything unresponsive. This might have been down to his RAM tho, (he has 2gb oem ram rated at 667mhz and 2gb kingston hyper x rated at 800mhz).

So basically my questions are: will the e6550 be a big bottleneck and if so is there any way I can overclock?

Hmmm, I was thinking you can do a physical pin mod (BSEL mod) to increase the FSB, but since stock is 333mhz, the next step would be 400mhz and I doubt an OEM board would be capable of that frequency. Sorry, but I don't think you'll get anywhere without a new motherboard. :ohwell:

Don't worry too much about it being bottlenecked by the CPU, more by the 2GB of ram, and probably the a 32bit OS

Tatty_Two · Jan 15, 2010

There are a couple in this list that might help such as Clockgen and CPU tool/soft FSB.......

http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?http://www.ocinside.de/html/links/ocsoft_links.html

r9 · Jan 15, 2010

Nick259 said:
I've just upgraded my friends pc to a 4870 and it seems to be bottlenecked a bit by his e6550 @ 2.33ghz. The mobo is an OEM board (ASUS IPIBL-LA (Berkeley), he has a compaq) so there are no overclocking options in the bios. I tried SetFSB but it didn't seem to work well, basically it just slowed the computer down and made everything unresponsive. This might have been down to his RAM tho, (he has 2gb oem ram rated at 667mhz and 2gb kingston hyper x rated at 800mhz).

So basically my questions are: will the e6550 be a big bottleneck and if so is there any way I can overclock?

For set clock if the software does not detect correctly the clock generator you should experiment to see which would work for that board. I`v had P7N SLI that was not detected and from searching on the net I did not find which one is correct so I was trying every clock gen and trying only those ones that detect correctly the FSB and multi. And it worked for E5200 @ 4.8GHz

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Any way to overclock cpu?

Nick259

infrared

Tatty_Two

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r9