A while back, I was posting a thread about figured out that my friend has built a wrong system. His builder (another friend) went out and bought some parts, 3.2E with the P4P800SE. But 2 months later, when I accidently found out that he has a 2.8 instead. I never did check but today I'm certain that he got a crappy 2.8ghz 533mhz FSB Northwood. We went back to that store and complained but they refused to acknowledge their mistake. So we're stuck.
He doesn't want to spend any more $$ on the upgrade, so.....the last resort is to OC it.
At stock cooling, he can only reach 3.1ghz stable with mem run at 1:1 - 147mhz. Pretty sucky for his DDR400.
So my main question is that, beside additional cooling, what else can we do or he's basically stuck at that point? I'm not familiar with this board, so I haven't tried any MANUAL settings yet.
Please give us your suggestions: BIOS upgrade to what version? What settings we should play with, etc. ??
Thanks a lot
Cliff Notes: Friend built comp - novice builder - got screwed by the store and received a 2.8 533 instead of a 3.2E.
He doesn't want to spend any more $$ on the upgrade, so.....the last resort is to OC it.
At stock cooling, he can only reach 3.1ghz stable with mem run at 1:1 - 147mhz. Pretty sucky for his DDR400.
So my main question is that, beside additional cooling, what else can we do or he's basically stuck at that point? I'm not familiar with this board, so I haven't tried any MANUAL settings yet.
Please give us your suggestions: BIOS upgrade to what version? What settings we should play with, etc. ??
Thanks a lot
Cliff Notes: Friend built comp - novice builder - got screwed by the store and received a 2.8 533 instead of a 3.2E.