Re: [gentoo-user] Front side bus setting
On Monday 11 September 2006 02:51, Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a way to set your system's front side bus speed in software? My Dell motherboard and BIOS don't seem to have any facility for it, and I've heard there is a utility in Windows that will allow you to set it. Isn't there a jumper or two on the circuit board that you should dis/connect according to the MoBo's manual to effect this? MoBos that don't have either a BIOS menu choice or a jumper set up and rely on a software hack perhaps mean that they are not meant to run (reliably) at anything other than default speeds - on the other hand it may just mean that HP/Dell/etc. were providing something cheap cheerful with my granny in mind and couldn't be bothered to fic their buggy BIOS'. With Gentoo compiling its own software the demands placed on a machine are somewhat more onerous than that seen by a typical M$Windoze setup. -- Regards, Mick pgpEH2vWFwKUR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Front side bus setting
Does anyone know of a way to set your system's front side bus speed in software? My Dell motherboard and BIOS don't seem to have any facility for it, and I've heard there is a utility in Windows that will allow you to set it. Isn't there a jumper or two on the circuit board that you should dis/connect according to the MoBo's manual to effect this? MoBos that don't have either a BIOS menu choice or a jumper set up and rely on a software hack perhaps mean that they are not meant to run (reliably) at anything other than default speeds - on the other hand it may just mean that HP/Dell/etc. were providing something cheap cheerful with my granny in mind and couldn't be bothered to fic their buggy BIOS'. With Gentoo compiling its own software the demands placed on a machine are somewhat more onerous than that seen by a typical M$Windoze setup. The Dell motherboard detects the CPU's FSB and sets it that way. The board officially supports 66/100/133. My Celeron 700 runs at 66FSB, but I'd like to try 100FSB so my memory will run at full speed and I can see if the CPU can handle 1050 (10.5x multiplier). Does anyone know of a way to set the FSB in software? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Front side bus setting
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 07:55 -0700, Grant wrote: The Dell motherboard detects the CPU's FSB and sets it that way. The board officially supports 66/100/133. My Celeron 700 runs at 66FSB, but I'd like to try 100FSB so my memory will run at full speed and I can see if the CPU can handle 1050 (10.5x multiplier). aaahhh, I don't think you want to do this... My (perhaps limited) understanding tells em that running a 66MHz chip at 100MHz blow it sky high. Although according to this web site[1] that's ok for celerons. I'd make sure you have some pretty decent cooling though - ie. water cooling, or move to Alaska. If all you want to do is run the RAM faster, what you usually have is a FSB to RAM multiplier (can't remember what it's called - my overclocking days are long gone :) Which allows you to run the ram at 100 or 133... Does anyone know of a way to set the FSB in software? Not me! My best recommendation would be to buy a really good overclocking motherboard - one with all these features in the bios. You should be able to get S370 mbs on ebay for cheap. [1] http://www.tomshardware.com/2000/07/28/intel_celeron_overclocking_guide/ HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal, and deviation standard. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
