I've got the above chip on an Intel X58 motherboard.
I recently inheritied a Dell Precision T3500 workstation for free. I don't have any money for new parts at the moment so I'm limited to overclocking in order to get the most for the time being.
It was easy to overclock the Quadro FX 580 graphics card and I saw significant improvements. But I'm having trouble with overclocking the Intel CPU.
At the moment it's speed is 2.4Ghz (this is stock speed). I've downloaded Intel's Extreme tuning utility but it won't work with my chip (doesn't seem like it works with many anyway), and I've fished around in the BIOS (which was all graphical and mouse drivern which felt a bit weird!) but there're no options for fiddling with the CPU.
Have I missed something here, is there another program out there that could help me, or is it simply not possible. I'm sure I've read in one or two corners of the web that people have really cranked up the speed on these chips, but I can't find out how they did it - and needless to say those forum posts are pretty old (the machine itself is about 2 years old).
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
I recently inheritied a Dell Precision T3500 workstation for free. I don't have any money for new parts at the moment so I'm limited to overclocking in order to get the most for the time being.
It was easy to overclock the Quadro FX 580 graphics card and I saw significant improvements. But I'm having trouble with overclocking the Intel CPU.
At the moment it's speed is 2.4Ghz (this is stock speed). I've downloaded Intel's Extreme tuning utility but it won't work with my chip (doesn't seem like it works with many anyway), and I've fished around in the BIOS (which was all graphical and mouse drivern which felt a bit weird!) but there're no options for fiddling with the CPU.
Have I missed something here, is there another program out there that could help me, or is it simply not possible. I'm sure I've read in one or two corners of the web that people have really cranked up the speed on these chips, but I can't find out how they did it - and needless to say those forum posts are pretty old (the machine itself is about 2 years old).
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.