Can i overclock emachines?

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a7xnck

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i cant find multiplyer or FSB in the bios. i know dell's can't bc of theyre cheap parts, is emachines the same
 
Yes they are. You probably could find some software that could do a mild overclock but nothing like you can do in the bios. All the OEM premade computers don't have many options to overclock. Thats why you build your own.
 
I over clocked a celeronA slot processor years ago in an emachines tower that we had in our shop for work. About 4 months later the PSU fried, and everything else with it.
 
Just today I overclocked an old Cisnet computer. I was VERY surprised it had any options to tweak even the FSB, but i gave it a mild boost. I think the only reason it even had that is because Cisnet seems to be a pretty cheap, refurb brand type thing. Either way, pleasantly surprised and the only reason I didn't go higher than what I did was because of the terrible cooling and the fact that it's an ancient P4 to begin with, which aren't exactly known for temp efficiency.
 
tlarkin said:
I over clocked a celeronA slot processor years ago in an emachines tower that we had in our shop for work. About 4 months later the PSU fried, and everything else with it.
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I overclocked an old IBM with a 600mhz or so slot based cpu, back when the board had jumpers for voltage and fsb speed.... Passively cooled for the win(i added a fan to it though)..
 
Overclock a emachine?!? Now that just funny...kinda like putting a v8 in a pinto lol. J/k sorry Im not a fan of emachines or dell for that matter. However I do not believe you can overclock either of em as when they are made the companies make it so you cannot overclock em. Something about not wanting to damage the thing...who knew?
 
jsawyer1181 said:
Overclock a emachine?!? Now that just funny...kinda like putting a v8 in a pinto lol. J/k sorry Im not a fan of emachines or dell for that matter. However I do not believe you can overclock either of em as when they are made the companies make it so you cannot overclock em. Something about not wanting to damage the thing...who knew?
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Actually, that's probably just what they tell everyone to make themselves look better:P In reality, its all about money. They could very easily say you OC it, no more warranty. Fair enough. But then they get people buying the lower end towers and beefing them up to a higher end performance for no financial gain to the company. Its the same reason they mix glue with their thermal paste and whatnot, to avoid you actually upgrading your computer without paying them for it.
 
CardboardSword said:
It's the same reason they mix glue with their thermal paste and whatnot, to avoid you actually upgrading your computer without paying them for it.
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Original equipment manufacturers mix glue with the thermal paste to prevent people from removing a heatsink off a processor?
 
a7xnck said:
i cant find multiplyer or FSB in the bios. i know dell's can't bc of theyre cheap parts, is emachines the same
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That's not why the disable it, they don't want "noobs" messing around in the BIOS, and end up overclocking their computer and then calling tech support because they damaged it.
 
2048Megabytes said:
Original equipment manufacturers mix glue with the thermal paste to prevent people from removing a heatsink off a processor?
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Not that i have ever seen, and i have fixed dell's, emachines, gateways, comcraps i mean compaqs, HP, and none of them had them "glued" to the cpu. If they did that then how the heck would they repair them themselves eh?
 
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Really? Maybe it was a freak incidence then? I've found the heatsinks on two machines, HP and Dell, to be glued on. Maybe the thermal paste was just extremely old? This is not limited to CPU sinks though. Either way, I've found some of them to be problematic and require a needless amount of force and patience to remove. I could also just be fabricating this with my imagination, but I think I read it somewhere as well. :S
 
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