Malachor

Recently got a ECS motherboard (I'm on a budget and I can't upgrade for a while) and it's showing no ability to overclock the CPU besides changing the FSB to a max of 1333FSB which is 2.67GHz on my e6400; I know I can push it more.

Is there anyway at all to overclock it further or something?

MasterKromm

Does your board have any voltage options?

But something you can do is make sure the PCI bus is locked @ 33mhz and PCIe locked @ ~100mhz. Also disable C1E(Enhanced Halt State) and EIST(Enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology), it's best to first figure out max stable OC and then determine whether those functions will work @ your desired clocks...

Still, pics of the bios will help.

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Malachor

Thing is I can't do any of that, not even voltage options for the CPU. But it has a whole menu dedicated to ram overclocking, they even list voltage changes in the other section of the bios with the CPU FSB.

I know the PCI and PCIe bus are locked at those states.

Simply the only options I have for overclocking the CPU is changing the FSB and I only get three options for those that are listed something like this:
Auto
FSB-1333
FSB-800
FSB-500
FSB-1000


Whats up with that man and I'm running on 25 degress with my cooler and I can't even OC the damn thing.

jph1589

Just give up and don't spend a lot of time on this. That board is a jumble of garbage chipsets and internal video that is not meant for anything but stock speeds. If you can't afford to buy a better board, you probably can't afford to burn that one up either. So just run it at stock till you can afford a better motherboard.

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If you are overclocking, read this please.... http://www.overclock.net/intel-memor...rclocking.html

Malachor

Thats going to be a while, I want to upgrade on the other parts and I got expenses too so I want to make the most out of it.
Is there any way to flash the bios or through software?
Sorry I'm just a bit desperate here..

The Hundred Gunner

ECS = no OCing

aka

ECS != OCing

Forget it, man. ECS is garbage.

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Malachor

Bleh whatever I give up.

Would a Gigabyte GA-P965-DS3 be a good board? Opinions on it please.

The Hundred Gunner

It's a good board, but it's kinda old.

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Malachor

It's either that or the MSI P35 Neo2-FR for me, might get the Abit AB9 QuadGT if I'm lucky.
Damn my budget...

Well whatever thanks for the help.