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Anyone able to help me either upgrade or unlock my eMachines M6811 bios so that I can overclock the cpu?

From my experience of overclocking, for writing music..... It's not worth it!

When you overclock your computer it gets ALOT hotter and unless you install extra fans / chip cooling you can:

(a) blow it up

(b) create problems / lockups within your cpu (the hotter it gets, the more errors it produces). You may be in the middle of writing a masterpiece and then it freezes up!!

(c) reduce the lifespan of your computer.

Unless you know that your SPECIFIC machine can be overclocked without problems then I wouldn't advise it. Apart from that, there is some info on www.overclockers.com

i think your pretty much out of luck when it comes to oc'ing that particular pc anyway. I highly doubt you'll a) find a BIOS that enables oc'ing options b) have a motherboard within the emachine that's even capable of it anyway.

Most budget over-the-counter pc makers ala Dell, Gateway etc... will only have limited (if any) options to OC in their BIOS most likely because they dont want to field support questions on that stuff, and the hardware they put in those things aren't built for that type of abuse.

As Dirty already said, unless you really know what you're doing and have the right combination of hardware, oc'ing is generally alot of work for very little real world gain.

If you want to get into it as a hobby and think it'll be fun, that's a whole different story.

Overclocking is a "bragging rights" process for the most part.

I have messed around with it a bit..........doesn't seem to do much.

Yea, but with all AMD's you can squeeze a bit more juice out of them, in fact, I saw that one guy had overclocked his Athlon 64 at 1 GHz (from 2Ghz to 3Ghz) faster than it was rated and was still running fine, that's a huge difference! I'm running in a well airconditioned studio, so I don't see too much of a problem with extra cooling, as it is my fan only goes on every ten minutes or so.

i had better result underclocking than overclocking .the pc stoped crahing & i could use the cpu up to 97 % without crashing .
it prevent it from heating up too much so make it more stable .

I overclock but cant say that I totaly recomend it. I am a power hog and like to use cpu heavy plugs. But to be honest with the speed of the newer computers coming out now there rely ought to be no need for overclocking. Pick up a a UAD or Powercore to ease the load if you need more speed that the cpu can offer.

Heat is a common cause for computers locking up.

I think you're better off leaving it alone.

Make sure you keep that bad boy cold. Get a nice big cooling fan for it


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