Recent content by Irishmark

Screw holes on the mobo don't match up to any other heatsink apart from the one that came with the machine, as far as I've found out at least. I'm hoping the psu upgrade will be enough, we'll soon see!

After some rootling around on the net and in my tower, it looks like I can't upgrade the heatsink in the Dimension 5150 at all, it's a proprietary setup :confused: . I popped in a 20 pin 650w ( stock is 305w ) psu just to see what effect it would have ( it's a 24 pin mobo but I had read to push...

Socrilles17 - Thanks dude! I've always been one of those semi-OCD types that hates to think that something isn't using it's full potential so I was happy to roll up the sleeves and get stuck in and this thread was a great help. I'm thinking of getting a q6700 on an ASUS board for my next home...

Hi Nora, any good computer enthusiast shop should stock it, I got mine in Maplins (uk/ireland) if your in the states try radioshack perhaps? From what I've read (I could be wrong, quite new to this) trying the mod on anything higher than a 3.0Ghz chip hasn't a huge chance of success. I think...

Hey Ziggy, 34.438 is what i got if that is any use to you? Mark Dimension 5150 P4 630 Prescott 3.0Ghz @ 3.99Ghz

jmsandrsn - So I got myself a conductive pen today, and am running at 1.525v at 3.99ghz. been running a half hour now with no trouble. system fan starts to go a touch jet enginey if i've got msn, 6 or 7 IE browser windows open, but it calms back down. I did read socrilles post (I think) saying...

You were spot on there jmsandrsn, that was from CPUz. I downloaded the RightMark CPU utility and it gave me the following info regarding voltage.. : STARTUP: 1.3875V MIN: 1.2625V MAX: 1.3875V. Under CURRENT it was fluctuating between 1.3625 an 1.3875. I did some further searching and...

Greetings all, I'm interested in modding my P4 630 3Ghz Prescott in a dell dimension 5150 to the 4Ghz oc, my current (no pun intended) default voltage is 1.42 and my psu is 305W according to the dell sticker. I tried the bsel1 grounded to bsel2 mod. The comp will start, I can get into the BIOS...