Overclocking i have a ASUS P5GC-MX motherboard & intel e2160 processor my question is how to overclock my cpu in this board?

LOOK IF A BIOS PASSWORD IS SET.

There are many issues to consider when overclocking and the first is to be sure that you have extra cooling for your processor. On this motherboard I do not recommend overclocking but since ASUS says that it can be done I will try to give you some places to get information on your A7V880 system. If you do not have your user's manual, you can go to the link below and download one.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_Socket_A/A7V880/#download . Leave the OVER_VOLT1 jumper on the motherboard on the default of pins 1 & 2. Refer then to section 2.4.5 on pages 2-21,22 of the User's Manual for Jumper Free configuration overclocking settings. In BIOS Setup I suggest a CPU Multiple of 10 or less. If you choose to use the AI Overclock Tuner instead, a setting of [Overclock 20%] or less would be best. The VCORE Voltage setting will depend on the specs for the CPU that you are using. If you don't know leave it at Auto. As I said before, overheating of the CPU is a problem in overclocking and you can monitor the temperature via the Hardware Monitor. Refer to section 2.5.6 on page 2-26 of the manual. Modern cpu overclocking normally does not exceed 20% safely unless you are willing to spend a lot of money on liquid cooling and frequent replacement of damaged processors. I would be interested in hearing whether you decide to overclock or continuing with your present settings.

Hi there,
It seams your Heat sink of uyour processor might not be seated properly or is not conducting heat away from your CPU. You might also consider using thermal paste to increase heat dispersion.
Have a look at this http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/134
Hope it helps
regards,

That board is a weird board to be honest most socket 775s didnt have AGP they usually had PCIE also that board doesnt even use DDR2. The only way you will be able to maybe overclock is thru programs try setfsb or clockgen. Also you could even try downloading ASUS easy tune program it most likely wont work but its worth a shot. Besides that there is no way you can overclock via the bios that must have been one of ASUS's budget boards.

If you are deadset on using that CPU you could always find a cheap G31 or EP43 board on ebay and use that and when you are tired of the Pentium D throw a Core 2 in it.


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Socket 775 from Celeron 420 up to Core2Duo E8600

Full list of supported CPUs is available on teh Asus support site > http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us and select the motherboard model.

All Asus P5GC-MX/1333 mobos are "X-series" boards.  

If you put higher speed ram on that mobo, it will just run the ram at lower speeds.

The board will not take 1333 speed DDR3, because it is only DDR2 compatible.

OVerclocking is complicated and risky, here is neither the place to teach or learn overclocking.

Some newer core 2 chips will automatically overclock, when all but 1 core is in hibernation (which will never happen if you are using vista). Other than that overclocking involves setting the bios to increase the memory buss speed, as well as slightly increasing the cpu and ram voltages as needed for stability. There is a great risk associated with manually overclocking and adjusting voltages, and should not be attempted by beginners on machines they value.

Hi mitchmodi,

I would not recommend overclocking that board or other compenant on that board. That board was not designed for overclocking. Changing the voltage and speeds of the CPU could create error or blue screen of deaths on you, as well damage the board itself.

Thanks

Mark

My suggestion is to never overclock. This makes the machine burn hotter and kills the life of the cpu. I learned this the hard way. If your gaming save up the money and go to the motherboard site and upgrade to a better cpu with fan.

Problem most likely is in bios. Hit the Del key when rebooting to enter bios setup. Check the settings there for the cpu. Asus has an automatic setting for overclocking for this board. Make sure it is set to auto. Save then reboot. Hope this helps.

Yes, if you overclock you computer, I believe if you enter your bios of the motherboard, asus already has a pre overclock options. That is if your using a p4 2.8 ghz processor. You can not put a 3ghz processor and overclock it to a higher fsb, your motherboard will literally smoke up but, most motherboards probably can easily detect a non compatible CPU.