[Solved] Overclocking Dell E520 Possable???????

To overclock you need to be able to adjust at least the FSB (Front Side Bus). It also helps to be able to raise voltages and change RAM ratios. Anyway those options are usually locked on dells. To get those options back you're going to need to use a hacked BIOS. Of course if you don't know what you're doing and flash a wrong or corrupted BIOS you will end up with a dead board, but hey no risk no reward .

You should be able to software oc it, which although not as solid does work, I had it on my old acer aspire t180 (athlon 64 3500+, 2.2ghz single core, see why i wanted to oc), it all depends on what chipset you have... so what do you have? (cpu-z)

ha nice dude I couldnt use clock gen though, either for 2 reasons (can't remember) there was something wrong with the drivers or it wasnt compatible with my nforce6 chipset...
so i downloaded the nvidia oc tool and autoclocked it from 2.2 to like 2.5 or 2.6ghz

still though hard overclocking is always the best i got my phenom II 940 X4 from 3.0 to 3.5 and im not done - all on stock cooling

yeah ntune thats it... and it was the newest version of clockgen at the time... and now that I think about it it was in the earlier stages of windows 7 beta, maybe even before it was released on the ms website, and there was something wrong with the driver signing... or that was another prgoram and clockgen just didnt work on my board, even though it detected it

EDIT: Sorry replying to : "well went into my bios, seems i "cannot change the vlaues" its only for display purpose, well thats the end of that thread, lol, thanks again"

Just like I said, BIOS overclocking can't be done on Dell's. They have to be software overclocked like I did. You'll need ClockGen - to overclock the CPU, SpeedFan - to montor temps, Prime95 - to stress test the CPU, CPU-Z - to display CPU clocks and RAM ....etc., OCCT - just like Prime95. Another stress test tool. Go slowly each time, do not do a very large overclock and expect it to work. I usually stress test 12+ hours but usually people do 6+ hours.

Does it recognize your motherboard? YOu have to click on the PLL control tab and slide the top "slider" that controls your CPU frequency and RAM freq. Do not touch the bottom slider. Then aplly clocks, use CPU-Z to check if your CPU clocks have changed. If they have then stress test for a couple of hours. If its stable go abit higher.

with the pll control tab, shows nothing but dials, no numbers or anything just blank meters

I guess it doesn't recognize your motherboard, so ClockGen isn't really an option. It automatically recognized mine, so I guess I'm lucky.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] -overclock

I just got my E4300 up and running:
Currently @ 3420 MHz
Memory @ 760 w/ 4-4-4-12 timings @ 2.0V
Chipset and FSB overvolted .1V

sorry, 3.4ghz

im too scared to mod the chip

i didnt over clock it, it was a responce to

"Where did you see this "3GHz Overclock"?"

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