Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

shahadin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:42:44 GMT

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re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

bukit — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:56:14 GMT

Hi,

Do you know that the desktop can use in 240 voltage? I planned to move to canada, so i need to know if the desktop can (also) use in 240 voltage, which mean has dual voltage or the voltage is 110-240 v.

I need to buy a desktop that can use in this range of voltage.

Thanks in advance

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

Lawrence — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:05:35 GMT

I stumbled across this, and was happy to see that overclocking was actually supported by dell. I just purchased a 710 which was a great price through the EPP. (Otherwise I would have gone 720. Learned after the fact the new motherboard, and faster memory speeds).

I haven't seen it spelled out, but overclocking previously would void your warrantly, but this looks like it's fully supported. Can this be confirmed, no negative effects on support plan and warranty? Also Are the notes above state specifically the 700, but I assume it's applicable to the 710 as well.

Also saw the section regarding the motherboard upgrades to the 720. Hope I'm not going to have to pay an arm and a leg there, but it may be worth it. Any idea when a price will be determined? I know the kits are still being finalized.

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

PW — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:31:53 GMT

Hi i am new to oc. i have xps 700 with e6600 cpu and 4gb of ps8000 Crucial Ballistix mem. I tried to oc the sys. with 2gb ddr 667 ,2 and 4 gb ddr 1000 memory with Ntune . Results were mix. With stock Dell ddr 667 i got 13% gain compare to 6% gain with 2GB and 2% gain with 4GB. 14%gain on dual 7900GS video cards. Memory voltage were 1.85. Unable to increase voltage to 2.2 v for Crucial memory. Please help. Thanks

Sincerely PW

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

Orangetintin — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:24:18 GMT

Hello I just bought a DELL XPS 700 last week and after a few days overclocking / playing with it, here is the result. Mine is the Rev A02 (latest) with 590SLI chipset:

1/ DDR2 800Mhz PC2 6400 - (Cas 4): System is quite stable, the motherboard can recognize 800 memory speed as well as CPU-z. However, when changed to 'overclocking' mode in BIOS, it becomes very unstable / crash a lot. I did manage to run a Ntune Automatic Overclocking once and it crashes right away. It seems like the Dell XPS 700 DOES support DDR2-800 but that is the highest speed.

2/ DDR2 667Mhz PC2 5300 - (Cas 5) - DELL's memory: although Dell memory has a slow Cas/latency of 5, it does support the Overclocking very well with Ntune. I could use Ntune automatic tuning for 20min and get the E6600 - 2.4Ghz running as near 2.87Ghz and memory reaches 788 Mhz. It is quite unstable.. so far.

3/ DD2 667Mhz PC5400 - (Cas 4): Now this is interesting I thought I would get the same result with the Dell's default memory since they are all 667Mhz.. However, like the PC2 6400, when turning on BIOS overclocking option and restart I will get system hang/unstable !! I guess the Low Cas/Latency is doing some conflict here..

FINAL thought: after a while I decided to keep the CPU as stock speed because Overclocking with N-tune will slow you down a little bit to load the Overclocking-Profile everytime you start Windows. More important, it is quite UNSTABLE and imagine a senario when you are doing an important work and it crashes !! So, I decided to use the DDR2 - 800 Mhz memory and wait for the new BIOS that supports overclocking X6800 via in-BIOS multiplier.. I think that would leave the memory untouch at 800Mhz speed and a nice over-clocked CPU with a stable performance.. ie.. no N-tune involved... So I will get an Extreme X6800 as its price is falling on Ebay... and of course wait for DELL to come out with a new XPS700 Bios update, ie. 1.4.1 or something.

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

Mr.Oi — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:08:20 GMT

Just got my XPS 710 this week.

E6300 8800 gtx

When I run ntune the system run perfect at 2.4Ghz. But in any multiplayer games I can barely move around very jerky. Single player =no problems(awesome stable). Multiplayer is unplayable. Why is this?

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

Malmen — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:00:42 GMT

thanks for that KingKobra, it really made the trick

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

KingKobra — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:13:49 GMT

Anyone still having issues getting into manual settings for motherboard in nTune, try setting your language to English US in the control panel, region settings.

I think they made a boo-boo on the localisation files.

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

john — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:19:52 GMT

Strange, when I try overclocking, after about half an hour the computer bluescreens.

Anyone having the same problem?

re: Overclocking the XPS 700: The Basics

Richard — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:45:56 GMT

Well, I picked one of these on the cheap from Dell Outlet not expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised.

I OCed the E6300 CPU to 2300 with no issues and I've played a bit with the 7900 GS, and gotten a nice OC on it as well.

All in all, a nice system for a decent price. 800 DDR2 would be great, but if one can get this system cheap, it's a great gaming deal for now