I'm new in the OC'ing buisness, but I just got a brand new motherboard P5Q ASUS PRO together with a E6600 2.4 GHz. I'm figuring I might overclock the 2.4 GHz to 2.8 or 3.0 GHz at least.
For the moment I'm using stock cooling until my HDT cooler arrives (damn delays), but I'd figured I would mess around the BIOS anyway to get a hang of it. To my surprise I found that I could change very few of the settings, that was actually doable on the old motherboard.
CPU Ratio Setting was stuck on auto.
FSB Frequency was also stuck on auto.
I have a theory that it might be me using a new BIOS version (2010 in contrast to other people using a 1010, I think it was) that perhaps wasn't ideal for overclocking.
Any ideas, I have search through the overclocking beginning thread for solutions to this "auto" problem, but neither this forum nor google has given me any answers.
Cheers and hope you don't mind this probably mundane/easy question.
For the moment I'm using stock cooling until my HDT cooler arrives (damn delays), but I'd figured I would mess around the BIOS anyway to get a hang of it. To my surprise I found that I could change very few of the settings, that was actually doable on the old motherboard.
CPU Ratio Setting was stuck on auto.
FSB Frequency was also stuck on auto.
I have a theory that it might be me using a new BIOS version (2010 in contrast to other people using a 1010, I think it was) that perhaps wasn't ideal for overclocking.
Any ideas, I have search through the overclocking beginning thread for solutions to this "auto" problem, but neither this forum nor google has given me any answers.
Cheers and hope you don't mind this probably mundane/easy question.