ok, so I was going to build after the price cuts, but gave in and bought a prebuilt pc(I did listen and bought an HP though). It has the e6420 and two 320GB seagate hdds and a Asus mobo. I was wondering if there is any software out there that is for mobo's with locked multipliers that let you overclock. I understand that you wont be able to overclock as much as if you could go into the bios and change the multiplier. I'm running vista premium so the software would have to support vista if there is any software out there. Thanks.
Overclocking software?
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Geoff
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The E6420 has locked multipliers, even if you custom build a PC with one. What is locked in your HP is actually the ability to change the bus speed, which in turn raises the processors clock speed.
Unfortunately no, you can not do that with an HP, or any other similar pre-built machine. It's the downside of buying pre-built's.
Unfortunately no, you can not do that with an HP, or any other similar pre-built machine. It's the downside of buying pre-built's.
Geoff
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[-0MEGA-];643902 said:Because they dont include those options in the BIOS.
My old emachines did, but they were just shaded out and you couldn't do anything. I think there another FXX key i have to press to see those options, I'm pressing F2 and the bios menu that pops up doesn't even show the processor specs.