Usually most GigaByte motherboards have more flexibility when it comes to overclocking. Example is the Pentium D 945 3.4GHz overclock to 4GHz as shown in my siggy's CPU-Z tag.

Another example here: Pentium Dual Core E5200 (with GigaByte GA-G31M-ES2L)...



Here is a simple guide..

Your RAM speed configuration should be under "Chipset Configuration" page . Also check in your motherboard manual, there should be FSB override jumper settings.. find "OC 800 / FSB0 / FSB1 Jumper".

This post has been edited by lex: Mar 6 2010, 09:48 PM

The GigaByte GA-G31M-S2L has basically the same options as the GigaByte GA-G31M-ES2L as shown above, thus its mostly down to playing around with memory ratio and memory voltages (always try to keep the memory speed as close as possible to factory specifications, or at lower frequency than default). A newer board, the GigaByte GA-G41M-ES2L has even more stuff to tweak, including the memory timings (check this review).

What is current processor? What is the clock speed and FSB frequency?

TS's motherboard has BSEL override jumper.

This post has been edited by lex: Mar 6 2010, 10:05 PM

Your processor is already running at 1066MHz FSB by default (thus the "OC 800 / FSB0 / FSB1 Jumper" is pretty useless).

You can try the BSEL mod (same one as used for pushing Q6600 to 3GHz) to override the default FSB bootstrap frequency (you will need to set that "OC 800 / FSB0 / FSB1 Jumper" back to default first). Should get your processor up to 2.33GHz easily.

Source: BSEL for q6600 + MSI P35 Neo2 FR overclocking?...


Other references: Intel BSEL & VID mod Guide