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Dual CPU Overlock on Dell Board

Hi, I am trying to seek some information on the possibility of overclocking my old T710 Dell Power-edge. It is a long retired server, and it is not used for any important or work related usage.

 

The motherboard is a T710 01CTXG 1CTXG LGA 1366 Server Motherboard. and in it are two Intel Xeon E5540's. There is plenty of system power, two 1100 Watt redundant supplies, as well as a third 650 WATT power supply for my graphics card. I know that OC'ing on this motherboard is not really supported,. I am not concerned about warranty voiding, as the system is already well past its warranty days anyway. 

 

Are there any software overclocking utilities you would recommend? I am worried than raising the FSB would create enormous issues related to the system memory, since it is locked well and truly at 1333Mhz. Is there any possibility of any raising of the Clock? even a few hundred Mhz's would be nice. Also, I am running Windows 10 Pro, the latest BIOS version from Dell, and have the BIOS CPU profile set to high performance, node Interleaving is ON

 

Thanks!

 

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