Intel Media Series DG33TL - Overclocking
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As I said in the introduction, this motherboard doesn’t offer any type of control over the voltage and frequencies. This makes it impossible to overclock from the BIOS. On the old school motherboards, one could use jumpers to overclock, but there are no jumpers here.
Just when I thought I’d run out of options, I found a program that would allow me to overclock. I used a freeware program called Set FSB. This is a program that lets you change frequencies from within Windows. The program works on this motherboard, and also will support a wide variety of motherboards. To figure out if your motherboard is supported, all you need to do is figure out if your PLL chip is on the list or not. Though I had the ability to sky rocket FSB, I couldn’t get much of an overclock from this motherboard.
I wasn’t expecting much from this motherboard as far as overclocking. I know my CPU can go all the way up to 400 MHz FSB without any problems. The best overclock I could get required me to bring down the memory divider and then try to overclock.
I have to admit, I didn’t expect that much headroom from this motherboard. I was able to get to 250MHz FSB fairly easy. This is where I benchmarked the overclock setting. I was able to push it a little further, all the way up to 266 MHz. At this speed it was unstable and froze shortly after that. Either that was where the RAM or CPU crapped out with the voltage, or there is an issue going over the next strap.
You typically have issues at this speed, and also 333MHz. This isn’t just a problem with this motherboard, or all Intel motherboards, but a vast number of all Intel socket motherboards from any company. There are some boards that have overcome this, and it seems like the newer boards don’t have any issues anymore. Overall, I was impressed given that there are no overclocking features on the motherboard.
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