Bios Mods

[Ripper]

I am thinking of modding the bios on my motherboard so I can have some direct control over the VCore settings. This crappy Bios I have now won't let me. Besides the obvious dangers, how hard would something like that be?

[Guest Princess Leena]

I think you'd be better off asking this at some techie geek forum.

 

Much depends on what type of mobo you have, as well. With Intel's, it's a bitch.

 

And I never recommend overclocking your PC for a slight boost, unless it's a spare PC, or something.

[MrRant]

Make sure your fan is decent. It's usually not too harmful if you take it slowly to find out where your system stability is.

[ZGangsta]

I think you'd be better off asking this at some techie geek forum.

 

Much depends on what type of mobo you have, as well. With Intel's, it's a bitch.

 

And I never recommend overclocking your PC for a slight boost, unless it's a spare PC, or something.

Hells no, with Intel chipsets it prctically begging for you to up the voltages it's so easy. And if you have a Pentium 4a, 4b, or 4c, then overclocking it is practically harmless. If it detects thermal overload, it automatically scales itself down to reduce the heat. You pretty much can't break that motherfucker if you tried. There's that video from a couple years back where the guy has his case open while playing Quake 3, takes the CPU fan and heat sink off, and KEEPS PLAYING the game (with a serious drop in framerate) and leaves it on for hours. Then he tries it with 3 other processors and they all immediatly burn to a crisp. P4a-c, indestructable.

 

But yeah, it does depend on what mobo you have, some of them it' a matter of setting some jumpers, some it's flashing a new bios.

She's right though, this probably isn't the forum you want to be asking this question.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

It's not the chipset that shuts down the computer, it's the BIOS. The BIOS takes the CPU die temp and shuts it down if it gets above a certain "burn" point.

[Ripper]

Please. I would never fuck with a intel.

 

I am running a Opteron 165 dual core and want to push it at least to the speeds of a FX-60. Believe it or not, thats a pretty moderate overclock on one of these things. I can get stable at 2.45 Ghz on air right now, but my voltage is too low to go any higher. I am still at 1.3 volts and it won't move.