Will I be able to OC an E4300 to 266FSB with an Asus P5PL2 945 chipset mobo?

[Hajpoj]

mobo http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...41&modelmenu=1

I'm very curious about this because my mobo just received a bios update that will now allow me to run an E4300. I'm using 2GB of DDR2-533, so I imagine that I should have no problems.

Has anyone had any experience with OC a core 2 duo on a 945 chipset before? If so what's the head room?


Also, I'm currently running an intel 560 3.6GHZ cpu with HT. Windows already has the Multiprocessor HAL installed for it, should I be able to just drop this E4300 in and everything will run fine without having to reroll windows?

[ziddey]

yes. your board already had a bios for 266fsb right? if it won't like you just raising fsb to 266, you can use conductive ink to manipulate the bsel flags to make the motherboard think it's native 266 and adjust strap accordingly.

[Hajpoj]

Huh? How do I manipulate what?


Anyways, the specs show that it runs 266 fsb at 200fsb. It doesn't do 1066 native. What's peculiar is that you can set the fsb 1-300 in the bios, and the ram dividers are there as well.