what is that, pencil? Is that the L12 mod, or something else?
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what is that, pencil? Is that the L12 mod, or something else?
Nice, congrats. :)Quote:
Originally posted by megatron
Worked for me!:banana:
oh you got the grease all on the cpu pins don't you. You supercooling your cpu? :)
few of us were talking about the graphite pencil mod for unlocking the CPU, not the L12 mod. However, it can still be done with a pencil on the L12 bridge mod, but I suggest you use the pin mod like the guy posted his pic here, or apply wire-drop-socket method for L12.Quote:
Originally posted by gouda96
what is that, pencil? Is that the L12 mod, or something else?
Just tried 166fsb L12 on my 1700/8rda+ v1.1 with A1/C1 NB... no FSB gain at all, still maxing at 237 with low multi and 232 with high multi for some reason. The only difference it made was i had to remove the FSB jumper or it wouldn't boot at high fsb.. before the mod the jumper made no difference on or off.
Looks like I had better dig out some wire tonight. :D
If I use the pin joining method, will that enable the 8 bit mod as well, or will that require anther mod?
I had a Tbred B in my NF7-S Rev2 at first.. I got stuck around 223MHz. Now I have a Barton 2500+ and the board took off.. 240Mhz.
So I don't think modding a 166Mhz cpu to 133MHz wil be a smart thing to do..not on a Rev2 board.. ;)
Anybody thought about connecting these 2 pins right from under the motherboard:confused:
This is far easier this way than to dissassemble heatsink/fan or worst, watercooler:D
L12 mod 166fsb mod seems to work better with BIOS10 on the Abit nf7 rev2 boards with Xp1700 chips. There is no guarantee for your epox board to do the same. You may have to test out with different BIOS versions and even then, no guarantee for ya.Quote:
Originally posted by q149
Just tried 166fsb L12 on my 1700/8rda+ v1.1 with A1/C1 NB... no FSB gain at all, still maxing at 237 with low multi and 232 with high multi for some reason. The only difference it made was i had to remove the FSB jumper or it wouldn't boot at high fsb.. before the mod the jumper made no difference on or off.
yeah.Quote:
Originally posted by pc ice
exactly right....
the L12 mod was origanally for the nf7 reversion 2.0 and 266 fsb processor's.. tried on a nf7 2.0......and a rev 1.0 no go with rev 1.0..........proven to work....on rev 2.0......333 processor's gain a fsb boost when droped to a 266....on a rev 1.0 i dont think there's much to gain wwith droping a 333 fsb processor on a rev 2.0..........
I have also seen many of TbredXP 333mhz rated cpus(i.e. xp2700) needing the L12 mod for 133mhzFSB to gain higher FSB overclocking on the rev1.1 and 1.2 boards as well. Many have reported higher effective FSB oc's with that mod, as well as my xp2700. That particular mod worked great for both rev1.1, 1.2, and 2.0 boards. I can't speak for 2.0 boards totally because I had not tested without mod on that rev2.0 board and xp2700, but the rev1.1 and 1.2 clearly showed the improvement. mdzcpa is one of the members who followed the method and worked on his xp2700 on his rev1.2 board too back then.
the highest i've gotten with very tight timing on the 1.2 board was 238mhzFSB 4-2-2-2.5. DC + FastCPU decode for glorious performance.
xp1700 chip + BIOS10 + rev2.0 + 166fsb mod gave me small inrease in FSBs however. I had to drop down to SCDDR for more effective FSB increase in 3dmark at 236FSB + CPUdecode. My style is to maintain FastCPU decode and full 128bit DC for optimal performance. Part of the FSB overclocking variations have been getting by other people are also due to changing these settings also. Some are affected by this more than others and vice versa.
hmmmm......Quote:
Originally posted by IamAnoobieCheez
few of us were talking about the graphite pencil mod for unlocking the CPU, not the L12 mod. However, it can still be done with a pencil on the L12 bridge mod, but I suggest you use the pin mod like the guy posted his pic here, or apply wire-drop-socket method for L12.
I read on many forums that pencil unlocking/moding of Athlons was a no go as long ago as the palomino core due it's high resistance, however reading that you have completed the CPU mod with a pencil I now stand corrected.
So is it really worth me giving this mod a go on my Rev 2.0 and 1700+/1800+?
I would say so. Watch the results :DQuote:
Originally posted by st0nedpenguin
So is it really worth me giving this mod a go on my Rev 2.0 and 1700+/1800+?
oooh, I can't wait to get home now.
If I can even boot at 220 it will be an improvement.:D
don't forget to bump your OCZ to 2.9V in bios (3.06V in bios) got same doing 240Mhz on the NF7 :D
What were you getting before the L12 mod?
correct, but you have to use very soft grahite such as 2B lead or softer lead and careful application to make it work. I've unlocked couple of Athlon PaloXP cpu packaging for lower multipliers too by using this type of pencil. HBs and 2Bs ain't gonna cut it, as if completely effectiveless. But still, for more security, use the old fashion silver ink/paint/pen material to unlock them.Quote:
Originally posted by Pita^Norf
hmmmm......
I read on many forums that pencil unlocking/moding of Athlons was a no go as long ago as the palomino core due it's high resistance, however reading that you have completed the CPU mod with a pencil I now stand corrected.
Some people gained higher result in FSB oc'ing than I. It varies some. When you test it though keep the setting the same before the mod and after the mod to see what difference it will make it for you or not.Quote:
Originally posted by st0nedpenguin
So is it really worth me giving this mod a go on my Rev 2.0 and 1700+/1800+?
Looks like I'll give it a shot tonight then.
I'll report back tomorrow...Hopefully...
Well, I got the mod sorted, just dropped a bit of wire in place and bam! No more auto CPU settings in the BIOS.
It looks like I can easily get the RAM over 200Mhz now, but for some reason I can't get the 10/10.5 multipliers to work, it could be the 1.6 BIOS, but I'm not sure, and I'll have to get hold of the 1.0 again.
So, to cut a long story short, whether it's my chip, RAM or cooling, whatever, I can't get this chip stable over 2.3Ghz, I might be able to when I get watercooling on it though, so at the moment I can't run at anything higher than 210 without dropping my overall speed by quite a bit.
The board did boot happily at 220Mhz though, but nothing at 225, I'll probably get a few more mods thrown on once I have the DangerDen kit bought, and see what I can manage then, only a couple of weeks to wait.
*sigh*
My results after the L12 mod to my XP1700DLT3C 0310 XPMW are not as good as others.
Before the mod my system was stable at 223fsb with 1.74vdd. Now after mod I can still only run 223fsb stable. I couldn't however boot over 225 before the mod but now can get into windows at 230. I have increased all my voltages and relaxed the timings and still nothing stable over 223fsb.
My only conclusion is I need more vdd juice. Anyone here running over 230fsb without modding the vdd?
Oh yeah my chips boots up at 11x200, what did I do wrong? Used the wire pin method.
Thanks
Update, just flashed to the 14 and now my chip reads 11x166, all is well except I still need the vdd mod.