overclocking a server - socket 771

[gwarren007]

I have a guy at work who posed this question to me. If you can overclock a home motherboard, could you overclock a 1333 (333fsb) server to 1600 (400fsb) and use ddr 800 that is 1.8v and compatible with the motherboard? I have no idea with the intended use is.
gwarren007

 

[swatbat]

Generally server motherboards do not have the options in them to overclock. Your only option would be to put a say 533 fsb chip in a board that supports a 800 FSB and use a pin mod to make the board think it is a faster chip. It may be possible for you to use one of the software overclocking tools as well but I can't comment on them. I've always used jumpers(old school boards), or bios settings to overclock cpus. Well soldering on the apple systems I use to overclock as well but that is a different story.

 

[Zero82z]

Clockgen would probably work, but there's no guarantee. If he already has the system, give it a shot.