can i get any OC with an HP/Asus/3.0P4/7600GT

[50bmg]

HP a1000y
Asus P5LP-LE (Limestone 1.04)
Socket: 775
System bus 533 MHz and 800 MHz
Chipset Northbridge: Intel 945G
Memory 2G PNY PC-5400
Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz HT, 800Mhz, 2M L2
Nvidia 7600GT 256M (DDR3 version)
500w antec (2 18A 12V rails)

The HP for home mulimedia use is fine. I have gamed on it for 3 years. I am going to upgrade my video to a 3870 as soon as they are in stock. I plan on building a new game pc in a couple of months. But, for now what can i do to get more out of my system. I am playing COD4 now. I am getting 40FPS at low and 90+ at its best. sometimes it drops to high 30s with a lot of explosions. 1024x768 AAx2, everything else on low or off.

Video: I installed Ntune, but unintstalled it after i read some reviews. I then installed Riva, but dont really understand what i am doing and i didnt get that much out of it. I didnt notice much of an increase in FPS, maybe even a drop. could i have pushed it to much. I seemed stable.

CPU: any ideas? utilities, speeds, clock, anything. My bios doesn't seem to allow any CPU changes.

 

[raven_87]

Your bios wont allow CPU changes unless your either pull some nice OEM hacks or, somebody has wrote a BIOS targeted for HP machines or, you write your own, and/or Asus has another bios you can use for that machine. either of those sounds unlikely.


Riva tuner itself doesn't do anything unless otherwise indicated by the end user. - its not an install and it will auto tweak like Ntune. As for your CPU; well, how do you like it? Original recipe or extra crispy? Because pretty much the temps your going to get on shady OEM CPU cooling with a Prescott chip will be high enough to cook most poultry.


In short, with that RAM and cooling, your going nowhere fast. - and I'd be suprised if you proved me wrong.

 

[50bmg]

gotya. I was afraid of that. Thanks for the wake up call.

I found a new bios from HP that now has an advanced bios access feature. I will install this new bios and see how advanced it is.

one more thing. I had the wrong RAM listed above. It is pc-5400.

 

[raven_87]

Its my experience that PNY DDR sucked pretty bad. DDR2 was a different story; regardless - get that bios in then you can begin to tinker.