How do you overclock your motherboard?

Answer 1

There are several methods that people have used to overclock their processors:

1. Crystal Oscillator - A crystal oscillator is a small electronic component that generates a steady clock signal, expressed in MHz or KHz (ex. 27.1432 MHz) or. By replacing the clock signal with one that generates a higher clock (ex. 29.7265 MHz), you would make your processor also run faster. Although still possible, this method is more awkward on modern motherboards, because of the high internal multipliers and numerous buses running at lower speeds (curse you, PCI!). This method is still useful on many game consoles and portable devices, however.

2. Adjusting Front Side Bus speed (jumpers) - The processor always runs at a multiple of the Front Side Bus (FSB) speed. By increasing the FSB speed, the internal speed of the processor would also be increased. For instance, if the FSB speed is at 66 Mhz, and the multiplier is 3, the processor runs at 200 MHz. If the FSB is increased to 100 MHz, the processor will run at 300 MHz. This method has been largely replaced by doing it in the BIOS, since after the Socket 7 era.

3. Adjusting CPU multipliers (jumpers) - Adjuisting the multipliers for the CPU was a slightly easier and more reliable way to overclock, since it did not stress any other components, such as PCI or ISA. If the FSB was at 66 MHz, and the multiplier was at 3, the processor would run at 200 MHz. If the multiplier was changed to 4.5, the processor would run at 300 MHz. Intel locked the multipliers on all their processors after the Socket 7 era.

4. Adjusting Front Side Bus speed (BIOS) - Starting with the Pentium II era, Intel processor were multiplier-locked. The only method to increase the processor speed was to increase the FSB speed. This could be done in the BIOS of many non-OEM (ASUS, Abit, Tyan, DFI, and not Gateway, HP, Dell, or Acer) motherboards. Although it stressed the other buses slightly doing so, the higher multipliers in processors made even a small increase in FSB speed a large boost in clock speed. This method is still commonly used today.

5. Adjusting CPU multipliers (BIOS) - AMD left their multipliers unlocked for a long period of time. Even when they began locking them, they left them in a way that was easily unlocked again. Jumpers on the motherboard were replaced with settings in the BIOS. This method is not common today, although AMD still has some unlocked CPUs, and even Intel has begun unlocking their high-end enthusiast (Extreme) chips again.

6. Adjusting Front Side Bus (software) - The FSB speed, along with the other buses, is controlled nowadays by a chip known as a PLL. The crystal oscillator still exists, but it primarily serves as a reference clock signal for the PLL. The PLL is more often controlled through the BIOS, but special programs running in Windows are also available. This method is the only overclocking option available for many OEM motherboards (though some may still not work through this method). You will first have to reboot you computer into the BIOS ( usually by pressing the Delete key during start up). go to the Frequency Voltage control menu, find the entry called CPU FSB Clock, and increase it by the smallest amount possible (2MHz is usually a reasonable increment). Don't get impatient and try for a large jump, you'll have only yourself to blame if you fry a very expensive chip. Finally, save the settings and reboot your PC. Be aware that increasing the speed of the front-side bus also increases the speed of your system RAM, which could prove the limiting factor.

There are many ways to overclock, and there are a lot of resources available on the internet. With that said, it is possible to overclock a device through utilities, possibly through human ingenuity, (for example, the pencil trick for computer motherboards) and much more.

Answer 2

This is a complicated question and I will answer the best I can off of the top of my head. Before answering your question I think one thing needs to be said. Your processor is hardly ever what is determining the overall speed of your computer system. Chances are, your processor is running at a maximum of 50% of its resources, unless it is clogged with adware, games, programs and certain start up files. To increase speed, try this first. Overclocking your processor is done with the system BIOS. There is overclocking software available for a fee, but it can be done for free. I will not provide instructions on how to get to your BIOS because if you dont' know, then don't do it. Once you are in your system BIOS, find the location where you can change the voltages and frequencies of your computer's central processing unit (CPU). For gigabyte boards, it is located in the section labeled M.I.T. I do not recommend adjusting the CPU voltage because the CPU's internals are extremely small and sensitive to over powering. Once you are in this screen, you will attempt to find the processors maximum STABLE operating frequency and voltage. Please take your time when doing this. First, start by increasing your processor's frequency. I start off with giving it a 5% increase as this is most likely a safe and stable start. After the change, restart the computer and let it load windows. Once in windows run a strenuous program that will give the CPU a good amount of stress. There are programs available to do this, but a quick way to do it is go to the windows calculator, fill it's screen with "9s" then multiply by a full screen of "9s" and keep hitting enter until the system becomes slow. If the machine CRASHES or FREEZES then you must go back and reduce the frequency you gave the CPU. If the computer successfully completes these calculations without FREEZING then you can continue finding the proper frequency. REMEMBER, the computer simply being slow does not mean it is unstable, it just means that multiplying by the billions, trillions and beyond takes a long time. Now restart the computer and go back into the system BIOS and increase the CPU's value by ONE selectable option. Meaning if the increase values read "2.540 , 2.550 , 2.560 , 2.570 , 2.580" and you are at the value of 2.54, then your next increase will be to 2.550. Restart the computer, allow windows to load, open the calculator, repeat the same calculation, make sure the computer does not CRASH or FREEZE (remember, slow is fine and is always stable) and repeat the process once more with a CPU frequency at 2.560. Keep repeating this process until the computer DOES CRASH or FREEZE. Once it does, you have just found your stable value. It is the value JUST BEFORE the one that had made your computer crash/freeze. Once you have restarted your computer, enter the BIOS, and enter the value that is just previous of the one that crashed/froze your computer. Then you are finished. Please take it slow through the increases to your CPU to minimize any chance of over frequencies and damage to the CPU. As an added safety measure to your hard disk, do not try your calculator calculations in windows UNTIL all running programs have finished loading. Meaning, wait until your HDD on your computer case has stopped blinking. This will minimize the chance of data corruption. Some expected conservative increases to your CPU operating frequency are something like this: 2.0-2.2 GHz installed should OC (overclock) to ~ 2.5-2.6 GHz 2.5-2.7 GHz installed should OC to ~ 3.0-3.1 GHz 3.0-3.2 GHz installed should OC to ~ 3.5-3.6 GHz

Answer 3

You have to go into BIOS to the memory settings and change it from default to manual setting. Increase the voltage by 0.1 volts at a time until the system becomes unstable at which time you back off by 0.1 volts until the system is stable again. You may have to reset your motherboard by shorting it with the shorting jumper if the BIOS becomes locked to get the BIOS functional again. Be very VERY careful! Especially on DDR3 memory - if you go beyond 1.6 volts on DDR3 you can damage the memory permanently.

Answer 4

Generally, you would overclock it in the CMOS settings. You would generally hold down the delete key shortly after you turn on the PC to enter the CMOS setup. If you don't have the option to overclock it, it is because the CPU is locked. You would likely need the "Black Edition" of the CPU.

Answer 5

It is not possible to overclock your motherboard. However other components of your computer are overclockable. Such as your video card, processor and memory.

Answer 6

try a program such as ati-tool or rivatuner.

Answer 7

Before you try and overclock an AMD processor you should be sure that you have enough cooling to do it. If you are sure you can use the tool AMD overdrive.

Answer 8

RAM overclocking is done threw your motherboards BIOS.

Answer 9

Overclocking is done threw your motherboards bios