I have a Dell XPS 435 desktop with an Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz.

The BIOS is Mickey Mouse Megatrends that has little function, and certainly won't let me play with overclocking.

Is there another way to overclock this PC?

Thanks, Tom

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I have one thing to add to this. http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=196767.

Thanks for that, transient. I guess that says it all!!

Tom

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It's a Dell.

I really doubt you can overclock, and if you manage to, it'll be VERY unstable.

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I have a Dell XPS 435 desktop with an Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz.

The BIOS is Mickey Mouse Megatrends that has little function, and certainly won't let me play with overclocking.

Is there another way to overclock this PC?

Thanks, Tom

We have tons of Dell machines at work and they all work just fine. The 6 year old ones are dieing at the rate of 2 or 3 per week but thru replacement parts even those are kept running. Dell computers are kind of like the old Packard Bell computers, little tanks but have proprietary parts in them. Being proprietary means cheap and not very ugradeable and little to no overclocking abilities. This sort of is by design, it means the machines just work with few problems. But it also means that for enthusiasts Dell is not exactly the best machine. I am not trying to say you made a bad choice, you didn't, the Dell will last you a long time as it is. But for overclocking and tweaking, building your own is much better. The other thing Dell's have is proprietary plugs so even swapping out the motherboards is not an easy thing! I buy, for my own family, and recommend Dell computers to lots of people at my work for their home use. Both of my kids went to college with Dell laptops, I am typing this on my wife's Dell laptop, I have several Dell's in my 'ranch' that crunch. But for me, I always try and build my own, it is cheaper in the long run, I can reuse old parts and then exchange them as time goes. AND I get to learn more about the workings of a pc along the way as a bonus.

different model but these guys seem to have a different story:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=595580

there's also a youtube howto...

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Christ, your i7 has a higher RAC than all my PCs put together :S

Please tell me you have more than one machine under your i7 machine's name.

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Please tell me you have more than one machine under your i7 machine's name.

I have three PCs; the i7 @ 2.67 GHz, a Pentium D @ 3.2 GHz and a Dual E2140 @ 1.60GHz for a total of 12 threads, all running 24/7.

Tom

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I just bought a Core i7 and it will be here Monday!! I will likely have lots of questions for you by the end of next week.

This is my first Ci7 and it will have Win7 so I am sure to find lots of issues.

Does anyone have experience with BOINC on Win7? Results?

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Thx!

Paul

I just bought a Core i7 and it will be here Monday!! I will likely have lots of questions for you by the end of next week.

This is my first Ci7 and it will have Win7 so I am sure to find lots of issues.

Does anyone have experience with BOINC on Win7? Results?

Hey Paul, enjoy the new machine.

I'm curious though why you would think you'll have lots of issues. I've been running a Core i7 with Win7 on it, since the Beta of Win7. I have not had any issues with Win7 & BOINC. So, unless your planning some really funky setup, things should work just great for you.

As far a results, here is a link to my machine's Rosetta stats, if you're interested.

You should get a nice boost to your already nice RAC.

Happy crunching. ~Joel

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I just bought a Core i7 and it will be here Monday!! I will likely have lots of questions for you by the end of next week.

This is my first Ci7 and it will have Win7 so I am sure to find lots of issues.

Does anyone have experience with BOINC on Win7? Results?

As long as you have a purchased system you won't have any problems with Boinc and an i7 machine!! The only people that MIGHT have problems are the home built ones and those people, me included, usually end up with a, better for us, machine that runs very well! In short i7 and Boinc and Windows7 should be perfect matches! The i7 cpu is designed to do multiple things at once, the video cards are normally really good ones, the memory is usually at least 4 gig often more, and hard drive size is not an issue anymore because the Boinc projects aren't anywhere near to filling them up! As for Windows7, think of it as Vista on steroids, it is sweet, easy to use with lots of the Vista quirks gone! I have been using it for over a year now and just love it. I am trying to figure out how to get it on all, or at least most of my machines asap without spending a ton of money!!! I already have a 64bit Ultimate version running on one machine and it is very nice! I also have the Beta running on 4 other machines. Of my other 13 machines only my laptop didn't pass the compatibility test, the video card isn't up to snuff. It will have to stay at XP, at least for now anyway. Although I do have Windows7 running on my netbook and it works just fine there too!

I love the fact that you can pull stats on a unique host. I did not know I could do that and have more research to do now. I want to see how my other systems are doing.

I anticipate issues because I bought a system but will end up with a home build when I am done. I am replacing the RAM and the boot disk. I ordered a couple of SSD drives and hope to get them in a RAID 1 configuration. I anticipate issues with Win7 RAID and the X58 chipset. In addition, I have never done SSD drives before so I expect a learning curve on that as well.

This machine will be using the Win7 64-bit and in the past the 64-bit version of any Microsoft OS had limitations with drivers, etc.

It will be great to get this beast on-line and start crunching! I need the boost in RAC. I want to break 5M this year.

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Thx!

Paul

I love the fact that you can pull stats on a unique host. I did not know I could do that and have more research to do now. I want to see how my other systems are doing.

I anticipate issues because I bought a system but will end up with a home build when I am done. I am replacing the RAM and the boot disk. I ordered a couple of SSD drives and hope to get them in a RAID 1 configuration. I anticipate issues with Win7 RAID and the X58 chipset. In addition, I have never done SSD drives before so I expect a learning curve on that as well.

This machine will be using the Win7 64-bit and in the past the 64-bit version of any Microsoft OS had limitations with drivers, etc.

It will be great to get this beast on-line and start crunching! I need the boost in RAC. I want to break 5M this year.

I bought a netbook earlier this year, it came with Windows XP Home, I took that drive out and put in an SSD and installed Windows7 on it with no issues at all! SSD drives are just like regular drives just faster and more durable. I now had a 160gig drive sitting on the shelf and a 64gig drive in the machine, works great for testing etc, I can always go back in just a few minutes.

As for Raid I only did that ocne with a Server and a bunch of scsi drives and it didn't work for me at all. I think it was lack of user knowledge on my part though. I had no clue what I was doing and although it said it worked, when I pulled a drive out it wouldn't boot or anything. Also the total of gig didn't add up right when all the drives were added together, by ALOT!!! I think I somehow got it mixed up and had some doing the adding them together into one bid drive and some doing the backup and therefore not showing up as usable space. In the end I gave the Server away, it was only a 450mhz quad core BEAST, that needed two power cords to run. I now have my own Windows Home Server I built that works great for backups and crunches too!