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Yup it took abit of testing to make sure its stable. yea i know its not much but i like it.Stock its a HP with a p4ht 3.2ghz at 3200mhz, But for some reason most of the time its 2990mhz.2 case fans plus the gfx card fan.I know the fans arent gonna last long running at 100% but they dont run at that speed all the time.This was my first time ever trying this, gotta admit its alot of fun.I just wish i could access all the controls like the voltages and such but what do you expact out of a store bought rig.Oh the x800xl didnt come with it,lol.As you can see i also oc'ed the gfx card, stock (400/490) oc'ed (506.25/607.50) Thanks,i love this forum,lots of good info here.

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LOL nice. Ok you need to sell that and put together a custom. How did you OC it anyway? Throught the bios?
 
Sta!nless said:
LOL nice. Ok you need to sell that and put together a custom. How did you OC it anyway? Throught the bios?
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No i cant get to those settings. Its all with the use of software. thanks.
 
You could maybe look for a moddified bios for it, but you'll need to know exactly what make and model the board is. Cause if you mess it up, your pc is pretty much done for and probably wouldn't even POST. But in that modified bios you'll probably be able to make those other adjustments.

Maybe invest into better cooling for it. You might be able to go higher.
 
LOL.... good job! HP OC! :D
The problem with 99.9% of the off the shelf systems *IS* the BIOS. Most do not have adjustments for overclocking... some have "Hidden" features accessable through hot keys.

The reason for this is quite obvious... they don't want to have to go through the BIOS if you screw it up.... and if you DO go into the BIOS, they want as few adjustments as possible so they don't have to check so many. I guess they also don't want to have to eat the cost of any processors if they are overclocked by the end users. End users (like yourself), can always go the software route, but they don't to be accused of PROVIDING their end users with the tools needed to overclock (and possibly fry) the CPU.

Wonder if you can push it any higher... it's be interesting to see how high a stock off the shelf system can OC.
 
NordicRX8 said:
LOL.... good job! HP OC! :D
The problem with 99.9% of the off the shelf systems *IS* the BIOS. Most do not have adjustments for overclocking... some have "Hidden" features accessable through hot keys.

The reason for this is quite obvious... they don't want to have to go through the BIOS if you screw it up.... and if you DO go into the BIOS, they want as few adjustments as possible so they don't have to check so many. I guess they also don't want to have to eat the cost of any processors if they are overclocked by the end users. End users (like yourself), can always go the software route, but they don't to be accused of PROVIDING their end users with the tools needed to overclock (and possibly fry) the CPU.

Wonder if you can push it any higher... it's be interesting to see how high a stock off the shelf system can OC.
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Well this morning i had it to 3700mhz but not stable(blacked out,lol).Temps were still low too.31c idle.Thanks everyone.
 
03grandam said:
Well this morning i had it to 3700mhz but not stable(blacked out,lol).Temps were still low too.31c idle.Thanks everyone.
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Yeah I think you'd need a real bios to go higher, or get it stable at 3700. Then you could adjust voltage and memory timings. There might be software out that you can use to adjust your timings, but I don't have any experience on an intel platform. Maybe some of the other guys could chime in.
 
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