dirtwarrior Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 I have an ECS board with a 1900+ processor. The board is 266 FSB. The test speed is 1196 processor speed. I want to safely and easily squeeze out a little more speed out of it, anybody willing to help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 (edited) sure, go start by going into your bios and slightly raising the htt(fsb) up 5mhz, then run prime95 to see if its stablealso lower ur ram divider to 5/6if/when you do get prime errors and you want to go higher, then raise the vcore up to the next settingjust make sure to watch ur temps Edited December 22, 2005 by ripken204 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted December 22, 2005 Author Share Posted December 22, 2005 OK I went into BIOS it seems like those are kind of greyed out and it wont let me change those. Is there a way to trick it into letting me change those values? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 ECS mobos aren't known to be easily overclockable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted December 22, 2005 Author Share Posted December 22, 2005 (edited) Since my board isnt easily overclocked are there programs which makes it easy to do it?OK here I found something here http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5abios/cheepobios.htmfor O/C bios. I have never upgraded bios before,I am a little nervous doing it.Any pointers? What if I have to revert back to the bios I had? Edited December 23, 2005 by dirtwarrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ðrзω™ Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 Since my board isnt easily overclocked are there programs which makes it easy to do it?OK here I found something here http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5abios/cheepobios.htmfor O/C bios. I have never upgraded bios before,I am a little nervous doing it.Any pointers? What if I have to revert back to the bios I had?when flashing your bios it will usually give u the option 2 backup your current bios. its pretty easy. as long as u backup your current bios you'll be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted December 27, 2005 Author Share Posted December 27, 2005 (edited) I have Speed Fan installed on my computer here are the current read outCPU 100PSI 33.3SDRAM 133.3This brings estimated speed to 1194 MHzI have 1024 meg SDRAM 168 pin ram installed (this is what I had from prevous computer)1900 AMD processor.From the spec above what should I change? What kind of speed increase would I get.I am not brave enough to try flashing to the O/C bios yet.My board supports 2100 DDR ram would ram rated higher work? Any benifits? I ask this because if this board dies maybe I will get a board that can use this type of ram. Edited December 27, 2005 by dirtwarrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 you can buy higher clocked ram such as 3200 but it will be downclocked to 2100. so if u wanted to future proof you could go that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted December 27, 2005 Author Share Posted December 27, 2005 What are your thoughts on thesehttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820231047 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 well it is cheap ram but its 2gigs worth, why notwhat model is ur mobo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted December 27, 2005 Author Share Posted December 27, 2005 ECS K7S5AIt has support for both 168 and 184 pin ramIt had 1024 mb PC 133 ram in it now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 I have an ECS board with a 1900+ processor. The board is 266 FSB. The test speed is 1196 processor speed. I want to safely and easily squeeze out a little more speed out of it, anybody willing to help?It's probably underclocked if it's at less than 1.60 ghz. Can you use 133 mhz FSB stably? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 I am downloading everest, maybe this app will help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 OK I went into BIOS it seems like those are kind of greyed out and it wont let me change those. Is there a way to trick it into letting me change those values?You're probably required to change a jumper. The FSB probably is controlled by a jumper. 100 mhz probably is the default and if you have an Athlon XP, change that to 133 mhz. Do you still have the motherboard manual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Yes the default is 100 mhz, If I change it to 133 will it speed things up a bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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