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That is a very very old board, which probably has the overclocking features in the BIOS not present at all as it is never intended to be overclocked. Furthermore, it has no cooling on the VRAM whatsoever so even if by some miracle you do manage to overclock, there is a good chance that you will burn that board and completely destroy it over time. 

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Can you tell me why it woudlnt work? Just curious :)

from what I can find out, your motherboard was designed for Xeon Processors, which don't overclock. the true determining factor would be based on the chipset, which I can't seem to find.

edit: found it: it's an X58 chipset

you can overclock if Dell hasn't disabled those features deliberately.

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I believe that is unlocked. Please post a picture of your motherboard so we can see if your motherboard has the VRMs to hold an overclock.

Do not overclock with that. The big metal one is the mobo Heatsink and the VRM beside the chip is not big enough.
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You can overclock your 920 but it isn't what you'd call unlocked (unlocked refers to unlocked ratio).

 

That motherboard probably doesn't have the options in the BIOS, and based on the design it was not made for overclocking.

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