FIRST TIME OVERCLOCK

[overezzy]

I have never overclocked ,dont know the first thing how to start.
I have a dell 4500 dimensions with a intel d845ept2 mother brd and p4 1800 ,512 ram can i speed this up?

[jurtje]

You usually can't overclock a OEM computer and you definitely cannot overclock on an Intel Motherboard.

[overezzy]

jurtje

Thanks

[FunkZ]

Dell removes any options for overclocking from the BIOS. There are 2 ways you might be able to overclock your system.

1) Research your motherboard, find out who made it for Dell and if you can flash another BIOS to reenable the overclock options. Sometimes this is easy as the manufacturer has a nearly identical retail board that the BIOS will work from. Sometimes you will be able to find a hacked BIOS that will work on your board. Research this thoroughly before attempting to flash another BIOS or you could end up with a motherboard that won't POST.

2) Use a utility like SOFTFSB that will overclock from within the OS. How high you can go will be limited by how good your memory is and by not being able to increase voltage to the CPU.

[overezzy]

funkz

THANKS

[wedant01]

if you really really want to overclock, buy a new mobo, but you void the warrenty i think (not like ocing isnt anyway)

hang on, you got a 1.8 p4 (not 478 socket) i think. welcome to the "not ocable cpu family lol, he he, i set out wanting to oc too, but now im buying a new system in 6 months lol

[silenze]

Honestly there would be nothing worthwhile to gain from anything you find to tweak that system at all...

[wedant01]

lol. these are very power though lol (i dont havnt been able to piss about with anothe pc) i can host a dedicated css server and play on it 8) untill more than 6 people :cry: . would that be because my gf2 doesnt support directx 9.* and it laggs. i noticed that when runnig a 5*00fx which didnt support it, it lagged. but running css on 8.1. it didnt lag :???:

[silenze]

lol. these are very power though lol (i dont havnt been able to piss about with anothe pc) i can host a dedicated css server and play on it 8) untill more than 6 people :cry: . would that be because my gf2 doesnt support directx 9.* and it laggs. i noticed that when runnig a 5*00fx which didnt support it, it lagged. but running css on 8.1. it didnt lag :???:

Are you running it as a dedicated server ? Try it if not.. should be able to handle more players that way..

[wedant01]

you know, i would if i knew how. i found out because at the cafe they were running css in 8.1 mode as it didnt jump. they use that special verion of cs:s and have updated it latly as we requested lol. which in the launch menu thingy is says what directx to use. how could i do that on this with the retail hl2? would be nice to play on a 10 (+) man server

[silenze]

Couldn't tell you.. the option and method is different for every game, and I don't know that particular one's.. you'll either have to just modify a shortcut with -ded or just check "run dedicated" when you're configuring the server inside of the game.. (then it would minimize to your task bar upon starting up..)

[wedant01]

hmm, u know what. i think ill wait untill i get my new computer. as i only "game" at the cafe now. i got to like the high fps... lol