How to: Overclock your OEM computer.

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WARNING :
DONT BLAME ME IF THIS NUKES YOUR SYSTEM

Please do not try to overclock your Family's primary workstation, This guide is geared to us dorks who have an old Dell/gateway laying around that we want to tinker with.



-Make sure you know what motherboard is in your rig before you start. Use PC wizzard , SiSoftware etc to find out. Also find out what PLL IC your motherboard has. Here is a great guide for finding out What PLL IC your board has. ( thanks to our friends at guru3d)


Some of the following programs work for some motherboards, so try a few and see how it goes.



There are a few tricks/programs out there to do it.



1)

Take the memory out of your mobo on your Rig. Start it up with NO memory onboard, it'll beep repeatidly, let it go ahead and do so. After it finishes beeping, turn it off, and install in the memory and turn it back on. The computer will load into the bios stating that it failed bootup due to system frequencies, and might give you the options of changing them!!!! I did it to an old P3.. So far I've gotten a 300 mhz increase.

2)

try softFSB

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download434.html

3)

try cpuFSB

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=420

4)

Try Clockgen

http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php

5)

try a bios mod

http://www.biosmods.com/about.php