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I'm looking for any helpful hints on doing a mild overclock with my Fire
Dragon. I have a 2.2GHz P4, Kingston 2100 RAM, stock Intel heatsink/fan
with thermal grease, 400W PS, FX5600 video card, video I/O card, etc. My
first Fire Dragon acted crazy when I tried to change any settings resulting
in spontaneous reboots, reset BIOS, and eventually it became unusable. I
finally convinced Soyo to send me another one. I have no idea if its
running the latest BIOS version. I read all the reviews I could find and it
seems that despite its apparant overclocking abilities in the BIOS, getting
this board to overclock is really a hit or miss affair. Others have
experienced the same problems I had with my first board. Others have pushed
2.2GHz up to 2.6GHz. Sounds like the AGP slot doesn't like to have its
voltage over 1.5V nor does the CPU like to go over 1.675V. Don't know if
its worth tweaking the memory voltage. I've heard that the latest BIOS
update might fix some of this. I'm interested in what other tweakers have
done. I really don't want to ruin my XP install so I'm not shooting for the
moon with the overclock. 2.4GHz would be nice.
I'm looking for any helpful hints on doing a mild overclock with my Fire
Dragon. I have a 2.2GHz P4, Kingston 2100 RAM, stock Intel heatsink/fan
with thermal grease, 400W PS, FX5600 video card, video I/O card, etc. My
first Fire Dragon acted crazy when I tried to change any settings resulting
in spontaneous reboots, reset BIOS, and eventually it became unusable. I
finally convinced Soyo to send me another one. I have no idea if its
running the latest BIOS version. I read all the reviews I could find and it
seems that despite its apparant overclocking abilities in the BIOS, getting
this board to overclock is really a hit or miss affair. Others have
experienced the same problems I had with my first board. Others have pushed
2.2GHz up to 2.6GHz. Sounds like the AGP slot doesn't like to have its
voltage over 1.5V nor does the CPU like to go over 1.675V. Don't know if
its worth tweaking the memory voltage. I've heard that the latest BIOS
update might fix some of this. I'm interested in what other tweakers have
done. I really don't want to ruin my XP install so I'm not shooting for the
moon with the overclock. 2.4GHz would be nice.