Advent CPQ9104

Zairs · 5 Jan 2010 at 15:57

I just bought one from ********, after a Lot of hassel I ended up with this

I started out by buying this

I then Had to go back cause they charged me for the more exspensive one

Will I be able to clock this much??
I thought It would do for a starting point and then upgrade parts

Links removed
Sorry

reflux · 5 Jan 2010 at 16:01

1) No competitor links

2) The links don't work

3) A PC bought from there is very unlikely to have an overclocking BIOS.

4) Welcome

Zairs · 5 Jan 2010 at 16:07

This is the set up
AMD Phenom X4 9650 Quad-Core processor (2.3GHz, 2MB Cache) Genuine Windows(R) 7 Home Premium 4GB DDR2 memory 640GB hard drive 512MB ATI Radeon HD4350 graphics DVD Rewriter Built-in wireless (802.11b/g)

Zairs · 5 Jan 2010 at 16:10

Is there anyway to tell what motherboard its using?

godinman · 5 Jan 2010 at 16:12

Open the case and have a look? Or check the bios? Or the paperwork?

PhoenixUK · 5 Jan 2010 at 16:13

Most likely some cheap chineese unbranded motherboard with locked bios and non OC options whatsoever.

If it's still within 1 week of purchase take your money back and buy a proper PC, we can help you out with specs.

Zairs · 5 Jan 2010 at 16:13

The paperwork is for another machine, Its for the more exspencive one they tried to charge me for

Didge3 · 9 Jan 2010 at 14:30

I also have the Advent in question and as far as I can tell it is not overclockable, The motherboard itself is a FOXCONN A7VMX-K, The BIOS is American Magatrends and I have searched google repeatedly and gone through the BIOS and it does not appear to be overclockable. The only thing I can think of is using overclocking software such as ClockGen (most likely wont work) or update the BIOS.

Didge3 · 25 Jan 2010 at 22:30

I found out today that you can overclock through the BIOS you will be happy to know I will post simple instructions asap. I am very happy at the moment as I got mine from 2.33Ghz to 2.53Ghz, it will go higher than that but im just keeping it at this to see what tempretures it reaches and if they are below 35 ish I will overclock more.

Didge3 · 6 Apr 2010 at 15:31

Finally

It has been a while since I said I was going to post instructions on overclocking the Advent CPQ9104 but thats because I have had to get it fixed twice by PC World as the overclocking has failed. The Overclocking does work, you can OC everything but I strongly recommend on overclocking the CPU as if you overclock the RAM or anything else for that matter it will break, the hardware cant cope with much exept the CPU. If you are serious about OCing then install a new cooler and it can easily be made to run faster but the stock CPU cooler can only manage 2.61Ghz which is what mine is clocked too. So anyway heres how to...
Launch The BIOS -Setup > Fox Central Control Unit > Fox Intelligent Stepping > Select CPU clock this should be set to 200, press the minus untill it goes up to about 215, then save and exit and it will re-boot, slowly increase this but go up in 5's as you will soon reach the max of about 2.61Ghz which is the highest stable temperature, good luck.

Naughty Knicker · 9 Jun 2010 at 02:18

I never realised the private messaging system was closed on this forum.

I wanted to ask Didge3 about the cpq9104 or anybody else who may have bought it and how things are going with it... any problems or difficulties or has it been a great PC for them.

Thanks.