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    78 series bios?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by FairTrade, Jul 24, 2010.

  1. FairTrade

    FairTrade Notebook Geek

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    So I'm pretty confused as to which bios to upgrade my p 7811fx to. I was looking though the sticky, but to be honest, it quite convoluted. The original post's links don't work and i don't know if its up to date.

    so here's my questions. What is the best bios to update to, where can i get them, and do they allow for overclocking?

    thanks

    and someone really ought to get a nice updated sticky on this
     
    FairTrade, Jul 24, 2010
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    1.) No bios by default alows for overclocking on the P78xx series CPU's.
    2.) 9c.17.00 is the best low temperature bios. above seems to just pulse the fan less by alowing the GPU fan toggle temperatures to be higher.
    3.) Gateway P78xx driver search
    4.) any bios alows through software overclocking of the GPU, none have locked this out.
    5.) you can through software now overclock any extreme series CPU..............
     
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  3. FairTrade

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    so how do i overclock the cpu? what program can do this?
     
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    Throttle Stop for the Extreme CPU's and nVidia's system tools for the GPU
     
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    If you have the Extreme series CPU, IE X9100, then UncleWeb created a program ThrottleStop
     
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    where can I find the 9c.17.00 bios? the one on the gateway driver search is 9c.20.00. or is that one better?
     
    FairTrade, Jul 25, 2010
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    If you don't mind the fan pulsing then 9C.17 is best, if you hate the fan pulsing and have a cooler then 9C.20 might be better for you. If you game a lot though (especially older 3D games) 9C.17 will still be better than 9C.20.
     
    Ultimate Destruction, Jul 25, 2010
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