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Post by evil on Jun 9, 2004 4:33:30 GMT -5
I believe there's some way of overclocking our XPS' by flashing a different bios onto the motherboard.
By the way, nice mods.
evil.
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Post by TRow on Jun 9, 2004 4:59:43 GMT -5
I read that recently on the DCF forums, but haven't seen or heard of anyone trying it. The only responses are "that's impossible due to Dell Proprietory bios" *Thats what WAS said about Aftermarket Heatsinks TOO!!! Yet the Mobos are designed using Intel D875PBZ. It makes you wonder. Please Feel Free to Try, By All means ;D Heres the DCF Link: forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_bios&message.id=28746T.RoW |
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Post by evil on Jun 13, 2004 18:37:11 GMT -5
SOMEBODY somewhere must have tried the BIOS flash, but after Google'ing the net, I haven't found any posted results (or there may be posted results, but in a foreign language). I would try it, but I'm a little spooked, because the XPS has firewire ports, whereas the Intel mobo doesn't.
Also, I've been looking into using CPUFSB (http://mitglied.lycos.de/podien/) for overclocking the XPS.
I don't know why I want to OC the rig, seeing as I'm trying to make the computer as silent as possible, but I guess we'll see.
The third gen XPS Gaming machine will be out within the next couple of weeks, maybe it'll be upgrade time.
evil.
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Post by TRow on Jun 14, 2004 7:57:24 GMT -5
In all reality:
This for the most part, seems impossible.
The only solution I've come up with to possibly overclock the CPU, adjust Ram Timings, and Control the Fans........is to yank them out and put them in a ATX Mobo.
If you think about it...
If you fried your Motherboard, You Can Salvage:
*CPU
*Mem Modules
*V.Card
*S.Card
*HDD's
*Optical Drives
*A:/Drive
*System Battery
*Case Parts/ Metal
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You could buy a New Case, New Badass Mobo, and a PSU. And you have a Custom Built PC!!!
My Backup Plan....
T.RoW
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Post by Techknow on Jun 15, 2004 7:53:45 GMT -5
The third gen XPS Gaming machine will be out within the next couple of weeks, maybe it'll be upgrade time. Whats the Gen 3 going to consist of? Any Major Changes to Major Components? ex: x800p/xt card support? Please link a site with info on that please, thanks. Techknow |
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Post by dan39 on Jun 18, 2004 4:08:01 GMT -5
with regularity people used to be able to flash old dell mobos to get better bios options. now you dont really hear about it, it could very well work. however you should also have the dell bios on another floppy in case it doesnt and want to try and reflash, which may/may not even work. i dont see an intel bios flash being very helpful though as intel boards tend not to have options in the bios to o/c either. searching for a hacked/modified bios would be your best bet.
software o/cing is not advised because from what i am aware you cannot lock the pci/agp. when you o/c the fsb you also adversely affect these two aspects. thats currently why amd 754 sockets werent very well received by o/cer's by mobo companies not designing such a lock into their mobos (it seems abit is coming out with flash to make an pci/agp lock. it will crash etc if not at the standard 33/66mhz.
ive heard that the newest xps's will have pci express mobos, etc. possibly by the end of the month? any current xps can run an x800 agp card now though.
trow, seems you really love your xps.
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Post by TRow on Jun 18, 2004 8:11:20 GMT -5
The costs far outweight the benefits, and I don't see many people who are looking to pioneer in this field. And I understand Totally. Maybe someday, or someone....Just not me ;D T.Row would marry his XPS if it were legally possible, the honeymoon might be a little rough.  T.RoW |
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Post by TRow on Jun 19, 2004 0:27:17 GMT -5
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Post by TRow on Aug 30, 2004 22:50:25 GMT -5
www.cpufsb.de/CPUCOOL.HTMI have yet to do any in-depth research on this, nor do I plan to try this. Take a look, post your thoughts. T.RoW
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Post by crusier on Sept 4, 2004 16:59:31 GMT -5
I toyed with it in the past. It was done using the manual fine tune option. There is no defined function per the manufacturer's specs on the clock generator for this and they have warnings not to access unspecified register addresses! It appears that any speed increases are simply due to programs reading out what ever register gets set in the process and calculating the clock speed. (eg. some programs see a speed increase and some don't) The system would tend to hang on restarting windows without a power off. In running various bench marks most actually decreased while the memory performance showed an increase. In short, it looked sweet but was disfunctional with a very high risk of trashing the system or hdd data. You would have to change to an overclockable motherboard and purchase a windows as the dell's cd would not recognise the system as a dell and refuse to install from dell's xp cd. This would still be cheaper than going for a top speed cpu. www.frontiernet.net/~zboling/cpuz.htmwww.frontiernet.net/~zboling/cpuzoc.htm |
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Post by TRow on Oct 16, 2004 6:22:47 GMT -5
I didnt even see this thread!
Instability is a key factor for my taste and preference, and I didn't realize the memory timings were so loose, blah.
The PLL's the same for Gen 1's? Please post yours, and Ill take a look and see if they match.
Thanks,
T.RoW
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Post by crusier on Dec 15, 2004 8:54:54 GMT -5
hmmm...it's been all too quiet in here....it's only a 2.8ghz gen1 but there's life in it yet.  see....youhave to take some risks in life and this one didn't rate too high....hehe |
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