Project to overclock 8 core Xeon E5 2670 - BIOS mods?

[gofasterstripes]

Hi BIOS-Mods users!

I'm a stranger to these parts, but am curious to see if anyone here would be able to help with our research into ways to overclock the very very cheap E5-2670.  Right now eBay is flooded with these, at a bargain price.

This is an 8 Core, 20MB chip that will work on X79, but is clocked <3.3GHz and therefore a little slow in single-threaded work. I am looking to find any way [at this point, no matter how labour-intensive] to overclock or unlock this chip.

Is it possible to somehow modify something in the BIOS to aid/achieve this result?

EG - [this is a guess or first step] Detect the 2670 as another chip, perhaps a faster model like the E5-2690 then perhaps we will be able to overclock it by using the turbo frequencies of the 2690? 

There may be other ways, that's why I am asking here, to see if this community can help my thread on overclock.net.  

Please have a read through on oc.net if you're interested in this project, and post here if you have any suggestions or think this may be possible, the way I suggested or ANY other.

Remember - right now I don't have ANY limitations on what may make it work - ALL suggestions or demonstrations are welcome, no matter what Motherboard or BIOS you think or can prove will work. I am also interested to find/contact people who may have detailed knowledge about the way the chips declare their capabilities to the OS or BIOS, I will collect and organise all this information for the project.

If we can find a way to achieve this, a lot of people will benefit! Rome wasn't built in a day, but an 8-core 4GHz core Xeon could render it in one