Foxconn ELA Overclocking

Jayce85 · 23 Mar 2010 at 01:27

Hi,

Has anyone got any experience overclocking (successfully) with this board?

I want to use if for a 3-way HD4890 Xfire set-up, but unless I can overclock the CPU I'm going to seriously bottleneck their performance.

I have a Q6600 G0 CPU, which I can get to 3.25GHz, this is far from stable though. But i don't mean the CPU, its the mobo that can't handle it.

First I had to backdate the BIOS to a earlier version, as the BIOS that shipped with my board claimed that a 266MHz CPU was 'not supported' and would be underclocked as a result!? (This only happened during OCing)

The board has all the features needed in the BIOS, it even comes with software for OCing in Windows, what its missing is the ability to behave itself once the FSB has been bumped up.

You will probably need to have used this board to help, but help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

pastymuncher · 23 Mar 2010 at 14:55

From the reviews i have read on this board (there are a few around) everyone came to the conclusion that this is a very poor board for overclocking. A couple of the reviews used Q6600's and they also topped out at 3.2Ghz. Another used a E8500 that they new could do 400fsb at stock volts so they set the board up for 400fsb, upped the NB voltage and they could'nt even get it to post. Just a bad board i am afraid.

Jayce85 · 23 Mar 2010 at 18:58

That's what I feared, a 'bad board'. I haven't come across many/any modern boards, especially not a P45 chipset board, that has been so uncooperative.

I've heard of CPUs not overclocking, but for a mobo not to run at advertised speeds has to be pretty rare?

If it can run a 1333MHz E8500 at stock speeds, why should it not run a stock 1066MHz CPU at 1333MHz?

You probably won't be suprised to hear that Foxconn haven't replied to my emails... Maybe their Customer Service specialist is away for the year.

gurusan · 23 Mar 2010 at 19:29

It is a budget board....however the P45 chipset is rated for 400 fsb and it has digital cpu power filtering so it can't be all that bad.

HAz · 31 May 2010 at 19:28

Once I changed some memory voltage the board would over clock fine! It was a werid setting but it was very stabel. The only negative was it would boot up then shut down then boot up fine, if would also not restArt which was strange. I put all this in an ocuk review of the product but low and behold it wanst accepted and shown

Jayce85 · 2 Sep 2010 at 19:02

Success!

I have tried a Pentium Dual-core (E5200) and a Core 2 Quad (Q6600) with no luck.
But today I installed a Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz and have successfully overclocked it to 3.8GHz (425MHz x9)!!!

No problems with restarting, booting up or shutting down. And all I did was up the FSB to 425MHz, left all voltages on Auto. Have been using Crucial Ballisitic RAM, which are stock 800MHz, but have a cool feature that lets them run happily at 1000MHz (currently on 1009MHz due to the OC).

I will give 4GHz a bash, when I get some 1066MHz RAM, but it seems as though the Foxconn ELA can overclock - you just need to find the right CPU.

HAz · 2 Sep 2010 at 23:40

Jayce85 said:
I have tried a Pentium Dual-core (E5200) and a Core 2 Quad (Q6600) with no luck.
But today I installed a Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz and have successfully overclocked it to 3.8GHz (425MHz x9)!!!

No problems with restarting, booting up or shutting down. And all I did was up the FSB to 425MHz, left all voltages on Auto. Have been using Crucial Ballisitic RAM, which are stock 800MHz, but have a cool feature that lets them run happily at 1000MHz (currently on 1009MHz due to the OC).

I will give 4GHz a bash, when I get some 1066MHz RAM, but it seems as though the Foxconn ELA can overclock - you just need to find the right CPU.

Even if i overclocked my cpu by 1mhz and save and exit bios, the pc would boot into windows fine but if i shut it down or went to standby it wouldn never boot up again unless i reset the cmos, which was weird. Once i found that voltage thing it was 100% fine, strange :confused: