I have a Dell inspiron 531. I'm running Windows vista home premium 32 bit. I have an amd athlon 64 x 2 dual core processor 440 + running at 2.31 Ghz. I have 4.00 GB ram and an ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro. 512 MB graphics card. I am trying to overclock the cpu on my computer and the cpu on my graphics card. I'm not having any luck. Dell doesn't provide any overclocking features on the bios on the motherboard. I set up the newest version of the ati catalyst center ver. 8.0512. It has an ATI overdrive for the graphics card but none of the sliders move even after I unlocked the overdrive feature. This means the best I can get the card to do is 601 Mhz gpu and 405 Mhz Memory clock. I tried to install AMD"S dual core optimizer but upon installing got the error message 1721. I tried to install AMD overdrive and after install got the message amd overdrive cannot detect amd7 series chipset on this computer. I tried to download a patch to fix this problem but it did nothing. can anyone help me get some more power out of this computer? I am currently at a 4.8 windows experience score but would like to bring it up as much as possible. I ran the direct x 10 PT Boats Knights of the Sea benchmark and can only get scores of 23.9 38.0 15.5 at 1024x768 with low detail and antialiasing off. I posted a post on another site and never recieved one reply I hope someone can help me here. thanks in advance. cmain52574@gmail.com

Christopher M Main

Dell's are not made to be overclocked. You can try the software approach but the results will be very limited. If you want a better gaming experience, get a better video card...the HD2600Pro is fairly low end.

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