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Okay, so I just did a basic how to overclock your computer here.

DISCLAMER: If you follow this tutorial, and screw up your computer its your own dang fault. I'm not responsable for your mistake.

Anyway heres a screenie of my end result, and current clock


And the video is here.

Cheers
Cameron

Nice.

My stupid Dell can't overclock :S I might buy a new mobo (Just put my P4 650 in it), then wait a few months for Conroes price to drop.

Your also going to have to buy a new copy of XP if you do that. Dell has a codec on their motherboards, so you can only use the XP that they include with a dell motherboard. Kinda sucks

However just to let you know, unless I'm benching, or looking at my FPS I never really notice the overclock. Well no I lied, when I'm encoding video I do, but other than that you just don't notice it. But its fun to brag.

Cheers
Cameron

Your also going to have to buy a new copy of XP if you do that. Dell has a codec on their motherboards, so you can only use the XP that they include with a dell motherboard. Kinda sucks

However just to let you know, unless I'm benching, or looking at my FPS I never really notice the overclock. Well no I lied, when I'm encoding video I do, but other than that you just don't notice it. But its fun to brag.

Cheers
Cameron

Whats next? Dell making there own Pentium 4s which only work with 100% other Dell components? Jeez....

So I have to get a WHOLE new mobo if I want Vista?

Thanks

P.S What is your PCmark score? (if you have one)

Somewhere in the 6K range. Before the RAM upgrade I got 5872 with the 3.91Ghz clock. But with the new RAM I should be in the 6K range. The one thing that is really holding me back from something like 7K is a sual core processer.

Whats next? Dell making there own Pentium 4s which only work with 100% other Dell components? Jeez....

They arn't branding P4s yet, however they do have Dell brand ATi and nVidia cards. If I remember right they are ASUS cards just relabled.

So I have to get a WHOLE new mobo if I want Vista?

Well we all will if MS sticks to this whole thing where your going to need the codec on the hardware for Vista to recognise it. But I strongly doubt that this will ever work. If they setup vista to do this, no one will update, because its just going to cost too much.


Cheers
Cameron

Jeez...

LOL! Nice one.

My veiw is that if you have to ask how to overclock you shoulden't be doing it.  I personaly did my first overclock when I found that I accidenly put a jumper on the wrong pins and found my dx66 was running faster than it should be  yet was stable.

My view on it is that everyone should atleast know the basics. With the video they get a good idea of what they would need to do, and there is less of a chance that they screw something up now.

Cheers
Cameron

I can only overclock 200Mhz this way or that...... Only through certain programs that run in windows, Now if I could unlock my Bios Controls on it..... Then I could, but that isnt possible I dont think, Cheers, Gunny

EDIT: I think I went as high as 400Mhz and that was stock cooling over a year ago..... Yes I am crazy... My view is, if you want to overclock go for it, if you fry it and blame other people, you should kick yourself, because its your own fault..... I didnt fry anything (Not that I know of) but I was told to not do it, but I did it because I was mad at the computer..... I wanted it to do something strange...... but it didnt! Bah....

Your also going to have to buy a new copy of XP if you do that. Dell has a codec on their motherboards, so you can only use the XP that they include with a dell motherboard. Kinda sucks

I'm not sure whether that is true ... I have a Dell 8300 (assembled in Dublin) and installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro on it without any trouble. Could it have anything to do with the fact that it's a Volume Licensing version of Windows XP?

Let me rephrase that a bit. The OS disk included on a Dell can only be used on a Dell motherboard. However you can use a regular copy of XP just fine.

Cheers
Cameron