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Overclocking son's XPS 410

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My son's XPS 410 has a E6420 installed(2.13 ghz) and I've heard these can be overclocked past 3 ghz on air. Question is can he overclock with his XPS 410 system or will he have to buy a faster cpu?
 
It will all depend on the bios and what kind of cooling that system is providing.

Most of the Dell bios's I have seen do not allow for overclocking, but I haven't played with many XPS's.
 
XPS's allow overclocking, becauase they're dells "extreme" systems or whatever. I had a Dimension 9100 Dell, it didn't allow overclocking, but im pretty sure the XPS systems do.

As to whether or not you can actually overclock it to 3ghz, that depends on the motherboard (i think that all Dell motherboards are Abit based, so try looking it up) and the CPU cooler (my dell was retarded and wouldn't show me my CPU temp, so i don't know how good the cooler is)

And a side note, why does he need a faster CPU? Is he gaming? Because if he is, his graphics card is more likely a bottleneck than the CPU, unless you've upgraded it.
 
ya first step it to check the bios and see if it gives you overclocking options. All overclocking is done the same way.

Usually up the FSB and make sure voltages are at the proper levels. assuming the dell bios allows overclocking, follow any basic overclocking guide and you should be able to get a decent overclock going.

Also, make sure your tempuratures are in order, because like the other guy said, I dont know what kind of heatsink the XPS's use, hopefully something above the intel OEM HSF.
 
With Dell, only the Intel 'Extreme" cpu's overclock because the multiplier is unlocked. If his XP 410 does not have an 'Extreme' cpu, don't bother.
 
With Dell, only the Intel 'Extreme" cpu's overclock because the multiplier is unlocked. If his XP 410 does not have an 'Extreme' cpu, don't bother.
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That isn't true at all, you can still overclock if its not an extreme CPU, you just increase the FSB like normal...
 
You can overclock a Dell XPS 410, however it is very complicated and you will get a very minimal OC.

It is limited to only software OC, and it requires you to trick the software into thinking that your motherboard is a different model, by changing some hex code around in the software.

I did it and got maybe 200mhz more from the chip, but the system never really took very well to the OC, it wouldn't BSOD, but it would act very weird from time to time.

All in all I would not recommend OCing a Dell XPS 410.
 
thedocta45 said:
You can overclock a Dell XPS 410, however it is very complicated and you will get a very minimal OC.

It is limited to only software OC, and it requires you to trick the software into thinking that your motherboard is a different model, by changing some hex code around in the software.

I did it and got maybe 200mhz more from the chip, but the system never really took very well to the OC, it wouldn't BSOD, but it would act very weird from time to time.

All in all I would not recommend OCing a Dell XPS 410.
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I wouldnt either. The extra strain on the systems components are not worth the minimal gains you get in performance.
 
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