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Compaq 7594 overclock
Hi everyone.I am new to this forum.Thouroughly enjoy reading everything that
you folks publish+very much appreciate the information sharing.I have been using pc,s for many years but have just recently taken an interest in the nuts+and bolts end of them.I am old time gearhead so this stuff should be right up my alley.My situation:I have Compaq 7594.Its 5 or 6 years old and still does everything that my family requires{minimal usage}.I have started looking into upgrading and from what i have learned so far will probably buy the compononents and build my own machine.More for fooling around purposes than anything else i am looking to upgrade this 7594.Not prepared to spend a lot of money.Oredered up some memory boards{for cheep}.Considered getting a new processor.Understand that i can go up about 1 to 1.4 gh with this mitac6513wu motherboard.I also got the impression from visiting overclocking websites-a rerm that i have only recently become aqquainted with-that the celeron 556 processor that that my machine has is very overclockable-up to 850mhz without having to extra cool it.The problem that i have encountered is that i cannot find my way in the bios setup as to where to change the clock speeds.Read the motherboard spec sheet from mitac and according to them i should be able to select from the main menu something about load advanced settings which should get me into that area.Have been unable so far to find that.Everything in the bios setup says Compaq on top.I suspect that they have locked this somehow to prevent me from doing this.Can anyone advise me on how to circumvent this? |
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Compaq 7594 overclock
Locked the BIOS? Well not exactly, but close. The BIOSes in motherboards of
name brand computers generally do not permit overclocking by changing the front side bus speed. I have NEVER seen one that does since 486 days, when people could adjust the bus clock via motherboard jumpers. In addition, the Celeron and Pentium III processors themselves are clock-locked, which means that you cannot change the clock multiplier burned into the chip at the factory. You're better off simply buying and installing the fastest processor that the motherboard will take. Socket 370 Pentium 3 and Celeron processors are pretty inexpensive right now... Ben Myers On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:04:13 GMT, "tapd" u30619@uwe wrote: Hi everyone.I am new to this forum.Thouroughly enjoy reading everything that you folks publish+very much appreciate the information sharing.I have been using pc,s for many years but have just recently taken an interest in the nuts+and bolts end of them.I am old time gearhead so this stuff should be right up my alley.My situation:I have Compaq 7594.Its 5 or 6 years old and still does everything that my family requires{minimal usage}.I have started looking into upgrading and from what i have learned so far will probably buy the compononents and build my own machine.More for fooling around purposes than anything else i am looking to upgrade this 7594.Not prepared to spend a lot of money.Oredered up some memory boards{for cheep}.Considered getting a new processor.Understand that i can go up about 1 to 1.4 gh with this mitac6513wu motherboard.I also got the impression from visiting overclocking websites-a rerm that i have only recently become aqquainted with-that the celeron 556 processor that that my machine has is very overclockable-up to 850mhz without having to extra cool it.The problem that i have encountered is that i cannot find my way in the bios setup as to where to change the clock speeds.Read the motherboard spec sheet from mitac and according to them i should be able to select from the main menu something about load advanced settings which should get me into that area.Have been unable so far to find that.Everything in the bios setup says Compaq on top.I suspect that they have locked this somehow to prevent me from doing this.Can anyone advise me on how to circumvent this? |
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Compaq 7594 overclock
Thank you Ben-appreciate the info.
Ben Myers wrote: Locked the BIOS? Well not exactly, but close. The BIOSes in motherboards of name brand computers generally do not permit overclocking by changing the front side bus speed. I have NEVER seen one that does since 486 days, when people could adjust the bus clock via motherboard jumpers. In addition, the Celeron and Pentium III processors themselves are clock-locked, which means that you cannot change the clock multiplier burned into the chip at the factory. You're better off simply buying and installing the fastest processor that the motherboard will take. Socket 370 Pentium 3 and Celeron processors are pretty inexpensive right now... Ben Myers Hi everyone.I am new to this forum.Thouroughly enjoy reading everything that you folks publish+very much appreciate the information sharing.I have been [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] locked this somehow to prevent me from doing this.Can anyone advise me on how to circumvent this? -- Message posted via HWKB.com http://www.hwkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/pc-compaq/200701/1 |
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