Hi, i am fairly new to computers and got an old Dell Inspiron 560, I know now that Dells are notriously tricky to overclock and almost all of the time require an bios flash and as I do not risk this as I have no money for a new motherboard or windows 7, I would like to try something I came across called Pad-modding, it sounds fairly simple and I was wondering if I would be able to perform it on my processor to squeeze some more needed power out of it, I have an Intel Pentium dual core E5800 processor here is all the information about it
Cores 2
Threads 2
Name Intel Pentium E5800
Code Name Wolfdale
Package Socket 775 LGA
Technology 45nm
Specification Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5800 @ 3.20GHz
Family 6
Extended Family 6
Model 7
Extended Model 17
Stepping A
Revision R0
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, Intel 64, NX, VMX
Virtualization Supported, Enabled
Hyperthreading Not supported
Fan Speed 493 RPM
Bus Speed 199.7 MHz
Rated Bus Speed 798.8 MHz
Stock Core Speed 3200 MHz
Stock Bus Speed 200 MHz
Average Temperature 44 °C
Caches
L1 Data Cache Size 2 x 32 KBytes
L1 Instructions Cache Size 2 x 32 KBytes
L2 Unified Cache Size 2048 KBytes
I was wondering if there is anyone who has pad modded this processor or similar or who knows any other ways around my overclocking problem as I do not want to have to buy a new processor
Thank You
Cores 2
Threads 2
Name Intel Pentium E5800
Code Name Wolfdale
Package Socket 775 LGA
Technology 45nm
Specification Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5800 @ 3.20GHz
Family 6
Extended Family 6
Model 7
Extended Model 17
Stepping A
Revision R0
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, Intel 64, NX, VMX
Virtualization Supported, Enabled
Hyperthreading Not supported
Fan Speed 493 RPM
Bus Speed 199.7 MHz
Rated Bus Speed 798.8 MHz
Stock Core Speed 3200 MHz
Stock Bus Speed 200 MHz
Average Temperature 44 °C
Caches
L1 Data Cache Size 2 x 32 KBytes
L1 Instructions Cache Size 2 x 32 KBytes
L2 Unified Cache Size 2048 KBytes
I was wondering if there is anyone who has pad modded this processor or similar or who knows any other ways around my overclocking problem as I do not want to have to buy a new processor
Thank You