Or a Compaq, Mines a Presario 6000, a rather high-end computer, you would think I would be able to overclock, but I can't, it's hard-coded. If it is hardcoded into the BIOS nothing can change it.

LOL, good point :-D

you can overclock space kid, if speed fan has your board and cpu on it. or you can search on the net for someome with the same exact bios as you but with the compaq lock on it and change the bios and overclock away

I have just done it through the bios and currently running this

CPU Speed:
CPU Clock 1234.08 MHz
CPU Multiplier 8.5x
CPU FSB 145.19 MHz
Memory Bus 145.19 MHz

i remember that i once tried it at 150 FSB and it didn't like that one bit. what else can i change that might increase it

I'm not gonna try, like you said in the information post, overclocking wears out your CPU and we want this computer to last as long as I can keep it running.

@Spellbyte: Can you bump the CPU more?

i cant bump the multiplier more than 8.5 and im pretty sure that i cant increase the FSB much more, i have other settings in the bios though, i'll just restart and let you know what they are

I have just managed to bump up the fsb to my surpise and have got it over the 1300 mark.

here are the other settings in the bios available for OCing

spread spectrum : curently disabled
Vcore voltage currently 1.750
Vagp voltage currently 3.3
Vio voltage currently 3.4

here is my everest info this time round:

CPU Speed:
CPU Clock 1317.73 MHz
CPU Multiplier 8.5x
CPU FSB 155.03 MHz
Memory Bus 155.03 MHz


how far would you reccomend i push it?

Where you have it sounds good, I believe 20% or somewhere in that area is the rule of thumb for overclocking.