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I press DEL to open up bios and there's no overclocking option at all. This is my Dxdiag:

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Now I saw someone with that same processor and he said he overclocked it to 3.4. So that's the strange thing, WHERE is my option? If I can't overclock it on BIOS, what would be a good program to overclock it with? I'd appreciate all the help.

 
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theonerm2
The multiplier is locked at 13.5 because you don't have a black edition CPU. Don't mess with the PCIe keep it at 100. Try this. bump your CPU voltage to 1.35 or max. Whichever comes first and try upping your reference speed to 223. If everything goes good it should be 3011MHz. Then test it with prime95. If it doesn't crash immediately you might have a good overclock. Run it for 3 to 4 hours. Watch your temps too. 62 is the highest it can go.
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I tried going up with the AMD overdrive and it says Its overclocked to 2.8. But when I did a computer restart it went back to 2.7.

@Millwright that is my Computer but his is AMD Phenom ii X6 1035t and mine is a AMD Phenom ii X6 1045t. I don't know if that 35t and 45t makes a difference or not.

But I have no option in the BIOS
 
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When you use overclocking software it won't stay overclocked after a reboot. You can have AMD overdrive automatically reapply the settings upon booting to windows though. Click preferences, settings, and checkmark apply my last settings when system boots. I recommend not doing that though in case you get a bad overclock.
 
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The processor doesn't change the options in the BIOS.
I'd double check, I'm sure AMD overdrive can only overclock by making changes to the BIOS.
Maybe why it goes back, because it didn't really do it.

The only other thing I can think of, maybe there is a newer BIOS, but overclocking is not typically something they add in a BIOS update.
 
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OEM Prebuilt computers rarely have overclocking options in the bios.
 
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@ theonerm2 I see. But also after I did the overclock and it said it was at 2.8 in Overdrive, I did a Dxdiag and and said its running 2.7 in Dxdiag like my pic above.

@ millwright I went to the Asustek site and got the latest BIOS which is 2011.

I just don't understand, there seems to be others doing it, but I can't on mine.


 
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Well, I did buy this computer at Best Buy in 2010 all built. It's not custom, I did a few changes though. I bought a new power supply which 700w and a video card which is Radeon HD 6870. If that helps at all
 
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It looks like AMD overdrive isn't working. There is a bios you can use to enable overclocking. Your windows will no longer be genuine and the onboard Ethernet will stop working if you use the bios. It can be found here http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A78LTM/HelpDesk_Download/
 
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I got the AMD overdrive actually. I just tried again and it says its going at 3.3. I did it enough so the slider doesn't show as orange which I would assume is bad, so I stopped it just before. Is it successfully overclocked? Why is it when I run the Dxdiag my ghz says its still 2.7? heres a pic of the AMD overdrive...

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Click apply and look at your CPU status. It should be going at 2835MHz based on a 13.5 x 210 overclock.
 
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@ theonerm2 you're right its 2847. It's this the best it can do? I try putting the slider to 16x and click apply but it goes back down to 13.5. I can raise the Clock MHZ and PCie higher but it goes orange after the 210 and 105.
What do you think about that?

Btw thanks everyone for all their help, I really appreciate it
 
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The multiplier is locked at 13.5 because you don't have a black edition CPU. Don't mess with the PCIe keep it at 100. Try this. bump your CPU voltage to 1.35 or max. Whichever comes first and try upping your reference speed to 223. If everything goes good it should be 3011MHz. Then test it with prime95. If it doesn't crash immediately you might have a good overclock. Run it for 3 to 4 hours. Watch your temps too. 62 is the highest it can go.
 
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this looks like an oem pc, and oem modifies the bios to remove overclocking settings

look in the bios if you can find a setting in which you can change fsb or cpu base clock or ht reference clock or something like that ( it will at 200 by default)

or try amd overdrive to raise fsb/ht reference to as high as you can without loosing stability and without frying your pc ( as overclocking will cause overheating too)

and use cpuz to check new cpu speed
 
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I did the Amd overdrive, its set at 223 like theonerm2 suggested with the volt at 1.35 and it didn't crash as soon as I did, it seems to be good. My game play is a lot smoother now too, I'm really enjoying it.

@truegenius I checked it in CPU-z it is infact running at 3023.62 MHz.

THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP EVERYONE ON THIS THREAD! :)
 
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