anyway to overclock on the Intel SE440BX

[Wick]

It said it had virtually no overclocking options, but I heard someone had found a new piece of DOSware that lets you increase the bus speed!? Anyone help me?

 

[outhouse]

there are a couple of programs at tweakfiles.com but your chipset has to be supported.

goodluck

 

[BXCompaq]

Wick (Jun 09, 2001 12:43 a.m.):
It said it had virtually no overclocking options, but I heard someone had found a new piece of DOSware that lets you increase the bus speed!? Anyone help me?

Assuming your board is a slot1 then any good slocket will have 66, 100 and 133 FSB and voltage settings. I use an MSI 6905 for my C566 at 850MHz/1.65v on my BX440 Compaq EP Deskpro (previously PII350) which has hardly any BIOS settings.

The slocket manually sets FSB and voltage via the jumpers. Not all slockets allow you to fix the FSB manually (i.e. with jumpers) so they need to be chosen carerfully. Support for FSB speeds does not necessarily mean the ability to manually 'set' them which is of no advantage for overclocking if you can't set it in the BIOS either. These are normally automatically set otherwise.
I have no temp readings either except a thermal cutout/warning so I have been conservative with a GW FOP32-1 and extra case fan at the front.

The mobo is able to run at either 66 or 100 FSB but I'm betting it'll go 133 also and according to the latest BIOS upgrade, at CPU speeds upto 950MHz (or more) (the EP series Compaq had several revisions for faster slot 1 CPUs but they all use the same BIOS upgates). My system is only supposed to support PIIs to 450MHz or Celerons to 533. It also supports voltages from 1.3 to 2.8v.

I do get a boot error "918 error This system doesn't support the current processor"
"F1 -BOOT" but everything runs OK when I do press F1. Compaq didn't put coppermine chips in the BIOS list for this model I guess.

My next step is PC133 ram, another case fan at the back and a PIII750 @133FSB.
Wish me luck!