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You can OC Dells

Originally posted by kronchev
not to mention their PSU's are EXACTLY the absolute minimum of what all the components will use
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Actually.... dell psu should work just fine for mild fsb
overclocking and handle a couple extra hd's.
I am using a 250w dellpsu on an overclocked amd nf2 pc
running 2 hd's (1 big ide and 1 15k scsi's).
 
Wow, I was really convinced before I read this that Dells CANNOT be overclocked in any way. My system in my sig is a Dell Dimension 8200, so this has obviously got me very interested. I'm not sure if i'm going to try anything just yet though. It does seem very risky...

I basically know nothing about overclocking but what do you think could actually go wrong OCing like this? Surely if you only overlcock a few Mhz at a time and not big leaps, nothing should explode lol? I also wonder if this would actually void the Dell warranty, as it is a software OC so would they be able to tell that it was OCed or not? :p
 
Nice hijack of the thread guys. While you can overclock Dells, since the BIOS has no settings to lock the AGP/PCI bus speeds, all the onboard stuff like sound and the cards you have plugged in get flaky if you do anything other than an extremely mild OC. Dells are good for what they are bought for - basic computers fulfilling a basic purpose. Grats to you for pimping your Dell, you are certainly in the minority that has a stable, OC'ed Dell.
 
I didnt oc a dell, I posted saying you CAN, and its not common knowledge, and even though maybe its not a good idea to oc one we should see peoples RESULTS, since theres basically no posted success or failures.

no fkn shat they suck lol

but theyre everywhere
 
a word of advice i tried to overclock my dell xps and they just are not built to be overclocked it worked for a while but the alluminum heatsink just didnt work well enought and that was going from 3.0 to 3.2 and it didnt take long to fry the processor
 
Originally posted by blackshadow
a word of advice i tried to overclock my dell xps and they just are not built to be overclocked it worked for a while but the alluminum heatsink just didnt work well enought and that was going from 3.0 to 3.2 and it didnt take long to fry the processor
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You sure you did it properly?

Abit None
ICS 952607

Do not use SetFrequency on CPUFSB screen.....select FineTune then do the increments from there.......

I had a SP94/92mm Tornado at that time on the 8300 so i wasnt worried too much from heat....so i was able to achieve 3Ghz stable...kept it there for a week for benchmarking then my Asus came. I then made the switch.........My ICS was on the dell 8300 was 952601 and that pll is unsupported but i did manage to change the frequency........

Next time if you feel inscecure of Ocing your dell and dont feel safe dont do it......I had proper cooling infact too much cooling at that time with 2x92mm tornado inside the case and i was confident to push it's limit...........


regards
henessey
 
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