Getting started with overclocking

dblyth2007

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Hi,

I'm completly new to overclocking. I have a DELL C521 with Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ 2.60 GHz
CPUZ reports: Socket AM2 940, 90nm, Core VID: 1.1 V
Dell motherboard with Nvidia GeForce 6150 chipset.

I can use the MSI utility to overclock my 8600GT graphics card ok.

Are there any such utilities to increase the upper limit on the CPU clock speed.

I've downloaded a bunch of utilities for monitoring: CoreTemp, CPUZ, HWMonitor, prime95, etc.

...but how do you actually overclock in the first place ? Bios / Dip switches / Utility ?

Any help is appreciated.

thanks

 

htoonthura

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sorry. you can not overclock that dell.
 

dblyth2007

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Thanks for responses, I've tried playing with AMD overdrive but it won't let me increase the multiplier bigger then x13, which is what it's already on.

I don't seem to be able edit anything else. I have gone into the preferences and verified that all the 'edit' colume is set to true.
 

doomturkey

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Of course Overdrive won't let you change your multi past 13, its not unlocked. You want to up the FSB.

But I probably shouldn't say much more, it really needs to be done from the BIOS which is not possible with a dell.