Overclocking???

yshaikh01 · 24 Jan 2008 at 16:42

Is it possible to overclock a processor if it has no option to do so in the BIOS?

M/B and cpu in question is
GA-MA69VM-S2
X2 4000+

Thanks

Cob · 24 Jan 2008 at 17:13

It's a Gigabyte, so try pressing Ctrl and F1 together on the main BIOS screen to see if anything new appears.

yshaikh01 · 25 Jan 2008 at 08:37

Cob said:
It's a Gigabyte, so try pressing Ctrl and F1 together on the main BIOS screen to see if anything new appears.

That did not work. Is this supposed to work on all Gigabyte motherboards?

Cob · 25 Jan 2008 at 13:54

I've just had a look through the manual and it mentions the Ctrl and F1 combination to unlock the advanced features.

DavidB · 25 Jan 2008 at 13:59

CTRL + F1 only unlocks RAM settings for me, but was worth a try, im guessing any software for overclocking would just edit the BIOS settings anyway, so thered be no way of doing it ?

Cob · 25 Jan 2008 at 14:00

The Gigabyte EasyTune software is included with that board (well according to the manual anyway).

yshaikh01 · 25 Jan 2008 at 14:12

Got it! Thanks

It worked, thought I was supposed to press Ctrl + F1 in place of DEL. doh.
The easy tune software only allows monitoring.
The advanced BIOS settings have

(thsse have submenu's)
DRAM Config
HT Link Control
PCIE Config
IGX Config

(these do not have submenu's)
SB600 Spread Spectrum
CPU Clock Ratio
CPU Host Clock Control
CPU Frequency

Any ideas what I am supposed to be changing?

Thanks
BTW I have 2x1GB 800MHz RAM running in Dual Channel and a x1950pro.

Thanks