Hmm, hmm and thrice hmm. So today I have to be quiet. My lady had a rough night and is still sleeping.. Any way, I looked into overclocking the Dell board. Of course, I hit the obligatory brick wall but... There is a but. Old Andy here likes to learn. So I spent the morning reading up on how a clock generator works. It's done by a PLL which is managed by an ICS chip. So I found two overclocking apps that can work if the PLL is correct. First up was Clockgen, the other is called SetFSB. Then I did some more reading and more studying and it appears the PLL can be found on a chip on the motherboard. It's located nearby a crystal on the board. I looked up a pic of my board.. Basically the red arrow points to the crystal, and sure enough next to it is my ICS. On the ICS is the PLL.. So I got out my torch and read off the PLL.. 932S421BGLF. And what did I find? Firstly you can see the datasheet for the chip in the background.. Then you will see me with SetFSB open and what do you know? we actually have a match :O So what does this mean? well hopefully due to SetFSB matching my PLL I may (note may, not tried it yet but will shortly) be able to control my FSB meaning an overclock.. I would say I'm about 5% confident right now but of course I will report back with my findings
OK so it does work and you can change the FSB. Sadly I can only get about 4mhz out of the FSB before it locks up lol. I did get a blue screen once.
