MoBo Help

Ok i was thinking of OCing my computer but i have a stock dell and i heard you cant do it with there mother boards. so i was wondering if theres a program that could tell me what kind of Mobo i have

 

Everest Free Edition

Roger

 

They dont have the same bridge its one step infront of mine like i have southbridge ICH4 And newegg has ICH5 or could i use that ??

 

I don't mean to be rude, but...have I missed a follow up post here??

Your first post said you were looking for a program to show your hardware specs...to which I replied with everest, then you replied with what I'm guessing is you asking about changing out with a new motherboard??

If that is the case...Dell's motherboards are proprietary, meaning that aftermarket boards typically will not fit in the dell cases!!

Roger

 

oooo sry about not mentioning that... darn that sucks cuz it only has 2 slots for ram as well well guess i just wait and buy a new PC

 

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but...that is one of the upsides of building your own systems, as opposed to buying from most commercial retailers!!

Roger

 

i bought it used off my buddy for 200 bucks

 

Hey...can't blame you for that!!!!

Keep in mind though...You could use the Optical Drives, Hard drive, Floppy drive, memory(if it is DDR2) to go towards a new build of your own project!!!!

You could even use the CPU and CPU cooler, if it is a late enough model!! Obviously, though...you don't want to put the time and money into building an upgraded system that is going to be at the standards of an older system!!

Unless...(sorry to keep dragging on here) you want to some ebaying for a case, PSU and an OC'able motherboard that is compatible with your memory and CPU and then take all the drives and everything out of the dell and put it in the new system, and then you will have a home build that will be the same specs (so to speak) as what you have now, only you will have a motherboard that you can overclock, and therefore you spent a lot less money than a new build and you will then be able to experimant with overclocking!!!!

Roger

 

to add to rogers point, if you buy a new pc from a company like dell, then most of the time you can't overclock it due to them limiting the bios to everything but what you need to overclock you system.