Could this be a possible 925X -> 925XE mod?

[freecableguy]

I pointed this out a couple of days ago in a different thread and got no response. Look at this! What the hell! Open pads on the Intel 925X chipset PCB. Does anyone have a picture of a 925XE chipset like this? I wonder what we will see. I understand that the die itself is labeled differently but who knows if that means anything.

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/925x.JPG

[longshot]

given that the nforce4 chipsets are basically all the same its possible. fugger has a 925XE board have him look at his and verify.

[vapb400]

doesnt fugger have both? maybe he could compare them.

[pik-ard v1.1]

i never understood the differences between the different 9x5## chipsets... is there somewhere with a nice pretty graph telling the general differences and purposes of each chipset?

if not, could someone summarize it? the nforce4/nforce4ultra/nforce4sli is much easier to understand...

[vapb400]

925x cant support 1066mhz natively xe can, i think thats the only difference.

[pik-ard v1.1]

wow... thats even more pointless then the difference between the nforce4ultra and sli chipsets...

[vapb400]

wow... thats even more pointless then the difference between the nforce4ultra and sli chipsets...
lol yea it is.

[Kunaak]

heres 2 pics I found on website reviews that showed the chipset.
maybe this will help alittle.
one pic is from a default Intel 925XE, the other is the Asus 925XE.

[freecableguy]

Well, drat. Looks like no change at all if those are in fact 925XE chipsets.

[oublie]

Hey Cable Guy,

It wouldn't be as simple a thing as a different bios ? i.e in the same way its possible to mod some bios's to increase the timing available could it be that an x could be made to run like an xe?

put it this way how many people have changed the bios on their 800pro to an xt. :idea:

[Xassius]

wow... thats even more pointless then the difference between the nforce4ultra and sli chipsets...

The strongest i925x board can scale to 299FSB (DFI) and the i925xe on my P5AD2-E can do 365mhz FSB no problem (and fugger booting with 380mhz FSB on his beta 925xe board)

[elec999]

I taught that fsb was a actual electronic chipset limitation. So a simple mod can change this, wont you need better chipset cooling and give it more voltage.
Thanks

[oublie]

I taught that fsb was a actual electronic chipset limitation. So a simple mod can change this, wont you need better chipset cooling and give it more voltage.
Thanks

Not necessarily, in the case of video cards some x800pro vivo video cards used chips with 16 pipelines with only 12 enabled (correct me if im wrong here guys) so flashing the bios basically enabled the other 4 pipelines hey presto you got an x800xt. Dont know if it would be the same when it comes to 925x to xe but ive seen similar things done in the bios when it comes to unlocking multipliers for the cpu and memory speeds so its just a thought as sometimes companies will use chips other than the ones you expect its luck of the draw in a lot of cases.

As an example everyone wants those superfast memory sticks and a different batch of the same memory may have used a better chip hence the demand and why everyone wants that 'Golden processor' that clocks better than any other.