ZSNES board

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:35 pm

Playing around with my old rig, which has a Q6600 at stock speed.

The motherboard prevents overclocking in the BIOS, but I'd like to get creative and try out some software to change the FSB speed and get a little more oomph out of things. I realize that gains will be limited, but I don't intend to go higher than 3.0ghz anyway.

Has anybody had experience with programs that can do this? I've heard of CPUCool, but that's about it.

Squall_Leonhart · Post by **Squall_Leonhart** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:39 am

most windows based solutions don;t allow multiplier locking for ram, and voltage adjustment.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 8:14 am

I realize that gains will be limited, but I don't intend to go higher than 3.0ghz anyway.

He's obviously not going to need such tweaks if he's just bumping things up a little bit.

Anyway, I don't really know of any, but if the motherboard settings don't support it, it seems a bit unlikely that you'd be able to do it from software, since the motherboard would have to provide those services anyway. I'd say just look around and experiment, honestly.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:31 am

It's possible that updating your BIOS to the latest one can enable overclocking.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:31 pm

Thanks for the responses.

And yes, I'm just going to bump things up a bit, so I likely won't have to mess with voltage.

I don't think a BIOS update will fix things in this case, the rig I'm playing around with has an OEM motherboard and as far as I can tell there is no way to unlock the bios capabilities I would need. It does seem that ram speed can be modified in the BIOS however. MB is an Acer G33T-AM, with the BIOS version being from 7/21/2007.

This is just an experiment anyhow, to see if I can squeeze a little more juice out of my secondary PC.

Post by **odditude** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:28 pm

there is a *slight* chance that your motherboard is a standard model with a custom bios - the greatest likelihood of this being the case is if it's an ECS motherboard. Research any silkscreen branding on the mobo; you may get lucky.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:50 am

I just tried Setfsb and it looks like I'm out of luck, even the smallest increase in fsb speed would cause the system to immediately hang. Oh well

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:56 am

Probably because the setting is locked out and your setting it to a variable unsupported by your mobo firmware/BIOS so it takes a shit trying to figure out wtf speed the proceesor should be running at with this undefined value..