[plug] Overclocking a CPU

[Caleb Duggan]

Sometimes there's dipswitches on the motherboard to change multiplier and  
FSB(mostly with older hardware)

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:03:08 +0800, simon <simon at chrome64.org> wrote:

> Jim Householder (nofixed at westnet.com.au) wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Thats for sure. If anything I underclock my stuff. CPU hasnt been the
>> > bottleneck in many years.
>> >
>> >
>> How does one underclock?  The computer that has been refusing to install
>> Fedora just hung installing SUSE 10.0 (media verified ok).
>>
>> I thought I might try underclocking as a last resort.
>>
>> I suspect I may not be able to, though, since the BIOS has a "CPU Clock"
>> setting, range 100-132, which is already at 100.
>>
>> It also has a CPU:DRAM frequency ratio:
>>    Value    DRAM Freq (MHz)
>>     SPD      200
>>     1:1      100
>>     3:4      133
>>     3:5      167
>>     1:2      200
>> Memory is new 512Mb DDR 400MHz
>
> You should see a setting somewhere for the multiplier.
>
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