need overclocking help/advice


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i have a compaq presario 5000 that has a intel 845 chipset and a p4 1.8ghz but the thing is it does't have options in the bios to change cpu speed! its some gay compaq bios and there is any updates for it that i know of....:mad: i've recently oc my gf4 mx 440 from 270/400 to 330/445 and have made some ram sinks for it too. but now i want to oc my cpu but i'm not sure how to do it without bios options i've tired cpufsb but that didn't have my mobo on the list. is there chipset stuff i can change? please i need some help!

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lol i'm not sure this is possible short of getting perhaps a new bios or mainboard? Companies like compaq and dell don't like their customers playing about in the BIOS. The only other thing i can think of is perhaps if your board has any dip switches or jumpers you can change. If you know your mainboard type you could possibly do a search online, however i am thinking compaq more than likely use their own parts so....

Next time build the system yourself.

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i don't wanna :disappoin oh well wot about jumpers on chipset can somone tell me wot or where they are on a i845?

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You're pretty much out of luck when it comes to overclocking on that board. OEMs try to prevent you from overclocking by limiting the features in the BIOS. There is a very remote chance that there may be jumpers somewhere on the mobo (no idea where) that allow you to change the FSB. For example, my old Compaq's mobo had a jumper that would let you change the FSB to 66/100/133 depending on which jumpers were removed. My P3 ran at 133 FSB default, but if I had a Celeron (the older ones run at 100 FSB) I could have overclocked that. Basically, your only hope to O/C your CPU is to buy a new mobo.

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