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ok, so a while back i stopped overclocking, gaming and general geekiness, thus I've fallen behind a lot.

so my pc:

dell vostro motherboard (based on foxconn g33)
core2duo e8500 running stock at 3.15ghz
8gb ddr800
nvidia 9600gt
2 350wpsu's (yes, i have two because i can't afford a big one)

I'm getting a new deepcool iceedge400 next week, as well as some hdd coolers and northbridge cooling.

now, bios is locked as it was a dell machine. is there any way i can overcome this and start o'cing?

Well, you can do some hard mods to the thing.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=114145

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/t285171.html

You should be able to use Memset to gain some control over memory timings...

great links! thanks!

another link for 775 socket cpu's regarding pin modding:
http://www.blazingpc.com/forum/showthre ... ml?t=18539
apparently it pushes an e8500 from 3.15 to 3.8 by increasing the fsb, will try tonight.

ok, two questions:
firstly, by increaing the fsb, will this increase the rams' speed?

and second, what influence will this kind of overclocking(pin mods) have on intel speedstep?

tried it, and failed...
tried it on 2 775 cpu's, and 2 different motherboards. both were fails...