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| System Name | Desktop / Laptop |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen R7 5600x / Intel i5-4200U |
| Motherboard | ASUS TUF B550-Plus / Lenovo MB |
| Cooling | Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 / Stock |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB DDR 3800 / 8GB DDR3-1600MHz |
| Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon 6900XT / Intel HD 4400 |
| Storage | 2.5TB SSDs + 4TB HDD / Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB |
| Display(s) | 34" LG Ultrawide / 12.5 " 1080p IPS Touchscreen |
| Case | Fractal Design R6 / Lenovo X240 |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard / Onboard |
| Power Supply | Enermax REVOLUTION87+ 1000W / Lenovo 40W |
| Mouse | Razer Basilisk X |
| Keyboard | Dell Business Multimedia Keyboard |
| Software | Windows 10 Pro 64 bit |
| Benchmark Scores | Chicken Invaders 5 @125+ FPS |
A friend of mine has a budget rig consisting of:
Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3P
Intel E2160
3GB DDR2 800 RAM
7600GT 128MB DDR3
640GB WD HDD
We wanted to overclock the CPU to get some extra boost and maybe do some folding/crunching. Since I know these CPUs overclock like crazy I immediately upped the FSB to 266MHz, locked the PCI-E to 100MHz, put the highest divider on the memory and upped the voltage a bit and to my big surprise it didn't post.
Then I started to increase the FSB bit by bit but even with max voltage on the FSB and PCI-E the machine wouldn't post above 220MHz. I started playing around in the bios and found out the only way to overclock more would be to set the PCI-E to Auto or to a frequency withing few MHz of the clock that would be when it's on Auto. This way i could get all the way to 280MHz rock stable with the only problem being that the PCI-E clock is around 145MHz if i remember correctly and sometimes the SATA controller is not found in the BIOS?!?!
Afterward I tried using the option that I use a 1333MHz C2D but even then the motherboard would post somewhere between 283-287MHz FSB and it changed every boot. So that didn't work too. I tried every bios version available and also tried the BSEL mod but with no luck since gigabyte boards use the CPUID to identify the CPU.
The only idea i had left is to try to modify the bios for the given CPUID that the default FSB is 266 or 333MHz, but from what i read on gigabyte boards that is rather difficult and i don't wanna risk a dead mobo since i have never done that before. If anyone has any other idea or some input it would be greatly appreciated. Also if someone has experience with modifying a bios i could provide the original. Reviews say that this mobo (just older revisions) should hit around 350MHz. This is the first revision with the 945 chipset that support 333FSB so i am surprised that this doesn't work
Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3P
Intel E2160
3GB DDR2 800 RAM
7600GT 128MB DDR3
640GB WD HDD
We wanted to overclock the CPU to get some extra boost and maybe do some folding/crunching. Since I know these CPUs overclock like crazy I immediately upped the FSB to 266MHz, locked the PCI-E to 100MHz, put the highest divider on the memory and upped the voltage a bit and to my big surprise it didn't post.
Then I started to increase the FSB bit by bit but even with max voltage on the FSB and PCI-E the machine wouldn't post above 220MHz. I started playing around in the bios and found out the only way to overclock more would be to set the PCI-E to Auto or to a frequency withing few MHz of the clock that would be when it's on Auto. This way i could get all the way to 280MHz rock stable with the only problem being that the PCI-E clock is around 145MHz if i remember correctly and sometimes the SATA controller is not found in the BIOS?!?!
Afterward I tried using the option that I use a 1333MHz C2D but even then the motherboard would post somewhere between 283-287MHz FSB and it changed every boot. So that didn't work too. I tried every bios version available and also tried the BSEL mod but with no luck since gigabyte boards use the CPUID to identify the CPU.
The only idea i had left is to try to modify the bios for the given CPUID that the default FSB is 266 or 333MHz, but from what i read on gigabyte boards that is rather difficult and i don't wanna risk a dead mobo since i have never done that before. If anyone has any other idea or some input it would be greatly appreciated. Also if someone has experience with modifying a bios i could provide the original. Reviews say that this mobo (just older revisions) should hit around 350MHz. This is the first revision with the 945 chipset that support 333FSB so i am surprised that this doesn't work