hriveresse

Hello there,

I'd like to ask for a little help with my first overclocking experience. I own an Intel Pentium 4 D845PEMY that runs at 2.8Ghz and would like to try my luck with it. Been doing some research and studying the various steps recommended by this excellent beginners' guide here:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1804

However, I have come to a dead stop. My Bios setup utility is plain. Most options are only listed and grayed out with no accessible functions. It will simply not allow me to access the setup part the guide describes, and I frankly ignore if there exists any way around it. I tried updating it to the latest version Intel has to offer in hopes it'd come with more tweaking options but there has been no change. Could anyone please lend me a clue? Or does this mean the bios cannot be tweaked for this PC?

Thanks in advance!

mootin

Hey welcome to the forums


you most likely have a pre built pc yeh ? eg dell or something similiar?

which means no overclocking for you

the motherboards they use arent designed for overclocking so they lock those options from there bios's

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hriveresse

Thank you!

Not that I know of. As far as I understand it prebuilt would mean buying it whole from a determined manufacturer like compaq or acer, is that correct? Mine was put together by a friend. All I know is that Intel is my deskboard manufacturer and the chipset model D845PEMY, since that's the info I had to gather to update my bios.

Sorry if I sound too clueless. I am half computer-aware, though some tech insight truly overwhelms me.

mootin

well thats good news that it isnt a dell, less hassle

so you have the Intel D845PEMY motherboard, unfortunately no intel boards overclock except the new Badaxe motherboard ( its a 775 socket , you have a 478 socket )

so the only way you will be able to overclock is with a new motherboard, or you can use a program called clockgen , however i wouldnt advise it, very unstable program.

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