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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

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dblyth2007 wrote :

sorry. you can not overclock that dell.

Reply to htoonthura

try using the amd overdirve, i use it to extra overclock my phenom sometimes , from the overclock i have in bios

Reply to godless

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.

Reply to dblyth2007

^You need to have a BE (aka Black Edition ) chip to go beyond stock multiplier. Dell for most part don't allow OCing on their PCs.

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Reply to Shadow703793

unless its the XPS and even that, they don't allow voltage changes i think.

Reply to Shadowthor

next time don't buy a dell, build your own computer.

Reply to godless

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.

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