Greetings everyone!
My first post here... It's been a while for me since I was into this stuff, over 20 years ago I did some BIOS mods and performance tweaking. May as well have been 200 years ago, brain no work good no more and for the life of me, I can't recall the foggiest notion of how to modify a BIOS file or even what any of it all means. I even hacked a Dell desktop to allow Vcore adjustment and overclocking, including core clock, FSB mult and even system RAM voltage & timing--all on a Dell!
I used to be decent at it, now years later it's *all* gone.
Reason I want to get back into it is I'm hard up for cash, leaving me with the computer I have today, an archaic Dell Inspiron 530, and I want to squeeze all the performance I can get out of it.
Here goes:
Dell Inspiron 530 (micro ATX, not the slim-case 'S' model)
DG33M03 motherboard
Core2 Quad Q6600
Phoenix AwardBIOS 1.0.18, Service Tag 1B77YF1 (If that means anything!)
8GB XMS2 DDR2 RAM (all of it works with 1.0.18 Dell BIOS)
The stock Q6600 clock rate is 2.4 GHz, however I have done the BSEL mod with a bit of black electrical tape, allowing it to run at 3.0 GHz and increasing the FSB speed from 1066 to 1333 MHz. It still runs cool and dead-reliable with the stock heatsink and fan, but I still want to squeeze the utmost performance from this aging rig to avoid spending cash I don't have
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I simply haven't been able to find a P5Q or GA-EP45-UD3P locally, so I'm hunting for a Dell BIOS mod.
Has anyone ever successfully modded the Inspiron DG33M03 BIOS to access Vcore, core clock, FSB multiplier and RAM voltage/timing parameters? If so, could I please have the modded BIOS? There are many threads/posts but no definitive answer as to whether this has been done successfully.
If I was willing to try this myself, where and how would I go about re-learning it all essentially from scratch? I guess I'm asking a lot, but thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out!
Peace
PuppyMill
