Building a dual 1.6GHz LV Xeon cruncher.

Good going, Jupiler! More power to ya.

Is the pin mod easy? I was going to try a pin mod on an XP 2000, but I thought it was really hard. BTW, Jupiler, get that xeon up to 3.2ghz.

Yeah the mod is pretty simple, just take your time and everything is fine :toast:

Are these pin mods the same I can do on an Athlon XP? At first I was trying to tie the wire around the pins but that was really hard.

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Originally Posted by moddolicous

Are these pin mods the same I can do on an Athlon XP? At first I was trying to tie the wire around the pins but that was really hard.

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Should be the same, as long as the pins are connected to each other.
This site has a nice guide :

http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/ht...mod_howto.html

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Thanks Jupiler. I had that link in a thread also, but the way I originally tried was tieing a peice of wire around the pins. It was really hard, and took like 10 min for 1 set of pins. The socket way seems much easier, and I'll do it this weekend.

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Originally Posted by Jupiler

Should be the same, as long as the pins are connected to each other.
This site has a nice guide :

http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/ht...mod_howto.html

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OMG!!! Thats a sweet page man!!! All of the interactive mods! :slobber: You rock!

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Originally Posted by Jupiler

Should be the same, as long as the pins are connected to each other.
This site has a nice guide :

http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/ht...mod_howto.html

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Wow thats an oldie :thumbsup: ,i used this page to do my xp1800 on my 8RDA3+ about 2years ago,its a very good site.

Yeah... those guides are great. They've been around for many, many years. :up:

Just goes to show I've always been and Intel man! :up:

Gah almost had my cruncher set up all the way but I ran into some problems. I think the motherboard is shorting in the case somewhere because it has a lot of stability problems, when I take it out of the case it is flawless, Im still testing peripherals to find the exact problem.

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Gah almost had my cruncher set up all the way but I ran into some problems. I think the motherboard is shorting in the case somewhere because it has a lot of stability problems, when I take it out of the case it is flawless, Im still testing peripherals to find the exact problem.

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PC-DL????

Quite a few of them do that! It's the ram... reseat it realy realy well... also reseat the VGA and IDE/Floppy cables.

Let me guess... sometimes you can get it to turn on when you hit the power button? Or you can't get it to turn off when you hold it in?

After hours of trouble shooting it appears to be a bad stick of ram, and I just found out if you use a SATA drive you cannot go above 200FSB speed due to there being no PCI/AGP Lock.

Just added a few warnings and updated the pricing of the chips, power supplies, and memory. (TwinMOS is down to $34 256Mb/$55 512Mb!!!)

Got the system running nicely but it isnt stable at 3.2ghz, anyway to get more than 1.6volts to the processors? Or at least get a steady 1.6v rather than 1.55v?

beyond doing a volt mod to the board, no. Just back it off alittle and see if it gets stable :toast:

jjcom

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After hours of trouble shooting it appears to be a bad stick of ram, and I just found out if you use a SATA drive you cannot go above 200FSB speed due to there being no PCI/AGP Lock.

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if its a PCDL thats untrue, I am running 220-240fsb with 2 SATA drives.

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if its a PCDL thats untrue, I am running 220-240fsb with 2 SATA drives.

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Actually if you have a Sata Drive on a Rev 1.04 board its impossible to adjust the FSB via BIOS, sorry I was wrong, it does have a lock since after 1004 bios.

Has anyone volt modded the vcore on this board? or even pencil modded?

You might want to do a search on 2cpu.com

There is a huge thread on PC-DL's there. Also, check datamine.uk.

I imagine there is, just have to find it.

please report back; would be good info to have.

http://www.datamine.tk/forum/forum_p...sp?TID=28&PN=1

A Pencil mod would be nicer ;)

I just built my PC-DL xeon rig, but i neglected to even notice the VR near the CHIPSET.

THEY ARE WAY HOT! Where can i buy some of the small heatsinks to put on it?

also i read that the PLL gets hot too, what other things gets hot that i can put little ram sinks on them? I am so PARANOID about the regulators.

I am willing to put on as many small heatsinks as possible, if someone can tell me which ones are the hot ones.


-MTXR

Hacksaw and vice?

Or you can try frozencpu.com or oneofthe other cooling sites.

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I am willing to put on as many small heatsinks as possible, if someone can tell me which ones are the hot ones.

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Heh, the finger test always works for me. If my finger looses a couple layers of skin after touching a chip, I heaksink it. I buy surplus heatsinks from a local electronics shop for cheap, then cut them to size with a bandsaw. I even have heatsinks in my DSL modem! :p:


[Add disclaimer about burning/cutting yourself here.]

Ok, finally got the FSB adjustable.

If you use a SATA drive, FSB will only be adjustable if you use the Promise controller, you cannot use the intel controller and adjust FSB unless you are using a rev 1.05 board.

The Promise Controller connectors are the upper ones on the motherboard.