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Overclocking a Xeon E5520?

hampusthun
By hampusthun
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Technically you can, but:

 

- You need a 1366 motherboard that supports Xeons AND overclocking. Not many of those exist.

- You can only overlock it by raising the FSB (multiplier is locked) which you can't do by a lot since it also messes with memory clockspeeds and so on.

 

In short. Don't do it.

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Technically you can, but:

 

- You need a 1366 motherboard that supports Xeons AND overclocking. Not many of those exist.

- You can only overlock it by raising the FSB (multiplier is locked) which you can't do by a lot since it also messes with memory clockspeeds and so on.

 

In short. Don't do it.

Haha okay Thanks for the answer!

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