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Old June 7, 2007, 10:09 AM
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Is this board any good for overclocking i saw on a site a guy over clocked his and he was running halflife 2 at 750 fps. he also overclocked him cpu ram and a few tweaks. i know im not gonna attempt to overclock a dual core or should i ?? i need sum advice on wat to do to get this system up and running at full speed
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Old June 7, 2007, 12:53 PM
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I'm downloading the manual right now to check the bios section, but it doesn't look good for that board as far as overclocking is concerned. It doesn't list any overclocking capabilities and since it's a mAtx board based on the 6100 series onboard vid chipset I suspect that wasn't an oversight on their part.

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The only 6100 series chipset mobo I've had experience with that has any overclocking abilities is the Asrock S939 board.

Is there a reason why you're looking at this particular board? If you're planning on gaming, you won't get very far with on-board vid, and if you're planning on using a stand alone vid card, there have got to be better choices of mobos to use.
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I stand corrected.

According to the manual there are two settings for cpu overclocking (freq, & voltage).

Nothing indicates what the limits of those settings are so I wouldn't expect too much.
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I found this review and it's a good board but it wasn't built for overclocking according to the review.

3dGameMan.com - #709 - ECS C51GM-M AM2 Motherboard


It would make a good board for a HTPC.

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Old June 7, 2007, 04:02 PM
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im using it pretty much for gaming music and downloading lol i ahve the high teck overclocked computer already over clock a 1.7 willanette to 2.2 so im happy with that for now
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I've yet to have a good experience with an ECS board ... That's all I'll say ...
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I've yet to have a good experience with an ECS board ... That's all I'll say ...
Some people don't and it doesn't suprise me. They feel and even SMELL cheap. ITs hard to trust a board like that!

Though my ECS experience was very possitive. On my 939 one, it fully supported an Opteron, which I didn't think it would. Then, my s754 board fully supported and recognized my Turion, which I couldn't believe. I had the same mobo mentioned here, but the OC was terrible.
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