japan1

Welcome to the forum ang

That board says it only supports 800mhz fsb's, but the intel 945 chipset its based on supports 1066 so it might work. If not your only other option is to overclocking manually in the bios if it allows it. It wouldn't hurt to try it though, you might be lucky

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Ang

LOL. I wish Intel Motherboard would let me have settings to Overclock the CPU... but alas, there is not.

And that's where I was confused was that the Intel 945 chipset supported 1066, and I was going to buy a Quad Core for this motherboard.. but the specs of this motherboard only say 800.

Theoretically, what is the worst that can happen if I up teh processor to 1066, and the motherboard doesn't take it?

Off topic: I love small form factor PC's (I see your microfly MX6.) I have coolermaster elite 340, and my girlfriend has Thermaltake LanBox Lite.

japan1

The worst that can happen is that it won't boot, or it will boot just at normal speeds.

I'm hopefully going to get a CM 340 for my next build, mATX boards rock

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Ang

Do you know what kind of store you can pick up Copper Tape at? And as to regards to price, what is cheaper? Copper Tape or Conductive Pen. I saw a conductive pen at Fry's yesterday for about 17.99.

If you have a Fry's near you the Coolermast Elite 340 has it at a normal price of 34.99. Best 34.99 I've spent on a case ever. Fits 2x120mm fans and 1 80mm! (I've modded mine, so there is no side 80mm fan, but I shoved one in the harddrive bracket .) And it also fit my Tuniq Tower!

japan1

I can't really help you about finding pens/tape as I live in the UK, but I use a circuit writer which I got from amazon.

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Ang

I guess you wouldn't have a Fry's near you to pick up that case then haha ...

Would you by any chance know what kind of store would carry copper tape? Hardware store? Computer store?

And also, how do I go about taking the IHS off? And does it attach back together easily?

Edit: Wait for the 800-> 1066 mod I don't need to take it off.. this is all on the bottom of the chip where the pins go into the sockets right?

Edit 2: and does VID Mod increase clockspeed ? Or just the voltage going to the processor to be able to increase the clockspeed through another method.

japan1

A hardware store would be your best bet for copper tape. As for removing the IHS, here's a thread with it explained. But once its off you can't put it back on, IMO you should just lap your processor if you want better cooling

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Ang

Wait, so to do these mods, I do it on the part of the processor that goes INTO the motherboard.. not the part underneath the IHS?

and does VID Mod increase clockspeed ? Or just the voltage going to the processor to be able to increase the clockspeed through another method.

japan1

The mod is not underneath the IHS, on the gold pins on the side that goes into the motherboard. And yes the VID mod just increases voltage so you can get higher clockspeeds

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Diablooo

Hey Guys

I'm pretty new at this, but i think ive got some of it figured out alright, but i wanted to ask for some help--

I have successfully done the 1066 bsel mod to my e4700, but i havent been able to get it to go all the way to 1333--

I'm working w/ an intel DG31PR mobo, which doesnt allow bios overclocking, but which is supposed to support 1333 mhz fsb speeds....

I tried the 1333 mod both by itself and with both of the different vid mods and any way i've done it it won't boot. I'm using copper tape, and as i said i got it into 1066 no prob.... Just wondering why this might not work out


I'm running osx86 on it (leopard) but that shouldnt have anything to do with the overclock--- however i did notice that in the system profiler, although it says that the processor speed is 3.47ghz, the bus speed still says 800mhz, so thats kind of confusing but for the time being I was ignoring it

any thoughts?