Dell custom systems

[BadBoy]

Can these type of machines be overclocked, and will overclocking kill my machine? sorry for the newbie questions.

 

[dude_1885]

dell probably wont overclock, i have herd of a few ways, but if it comes with a dell motherbord, then it wont...even if it doesnt, then the bios option will probably be locked...

 

[BadBoy]

dell probably wont overclock, i have herd of a few ways, but if it comes with a dell motherbord, then it wont...even if it doesnt, then the bios option will probably be locked...

Doh!, when i was reading the overclocking sticky I noticed that I do not have the extra magic option in my bios

 

[bloodthirst]

dell motherboard bios has the overclocking section hiden so you cannot overclock it, to overclock a dell computer you can use a program like clockgen or such, you may need to buy a decent cooler for the cpu because most dells just come with a aluminium heatsink attached to it

 

[Dav0s]

dells wont overclock.....and clockgen is hit and miss.

spend the time learning to build your own computers, and you will benefit from it

 

[BadBoy]

Thanks guys, I already know how to build systems so I am already one step ahead

Will read up on posts etc to help me pickup new things.

 

[Moku]

dell motherboard bios has the overclocking section hiden so you cannot overclock it, to overclock a dell computer you can use a program like clockgen or such, you may need to buy a decent cooler for the cpu because most dells just come with a aluminium heatsink attached to it

bloodthirst,

Are there any other reasons for Dell hiding the overclocking facility on their mobo apart from the obvious reason of not wanting customers to overclock? Surely if the facility is hidden, then there should be a way of unhiding it .

 

[FarFarAway]

A lot of BIOS' (Dell notably) just don't give you the option of changing the essential overclocking features. They literally just do not write it in

 

[bloodthirst]

my guess is that dont write it in so people dont try and overclock it and screw the system up somehow then the computer itself being under warranty would have to be fixed at dells expense and they dont want that, just a guess tho cant be sure

 

[Moku]

Thanks guys for the quick replies. I thought that was the reason but that said Dell may just be unfairly restricting what the end-user could do with his or her computer in the interest of profitability.

 

[FarFarAway]

Well to be honest its most probably in the interest of stability. If someone who hasn't read up on anything BIOS-like they can seriously screw up their PC. In the end - most users can't be trusted with being able to change advanced options in the BIOS