Quote Originally Posted by SoddemFX View Post
Hi MaSell,

I have the capacitors soldered to the CPU but i'm too affraid to put it in the board at the moment.

It was soldered under a microscope, i was originally going to try to do it but in the end i got help from someone more experienced, it took us about 3 hours all together. The gaps between the pads and the gound plane on the packaging substrate is tiny, it has to be in the region of 0.1mm. Soldering the 0402's was a nightmare it took me and another guy about 3 hours, we fitted 4 x 220pF 0402's and 2 x 10uF 1206's both X7R. There are no visual shorts under the microscope but you can't measure any shorts anyway - it's try and see in the board.

I'll be putting it in the P5K this weekend - fingers crossed it still works at all. Even if it goes pop i've got some nice-ish pictures of the CPU on my camera back home

I did what Sang did as well (i was bored), but it didn't gain me anything realy. Off a 5v rail it lost me about 5MHz, on the battery it gained me about 2MHz - woooooo. VCC_PLL on these E4000's must be a b*tch for noise, draws next to no power tho, ran for a good few mins on the PP3 dropping from 9v to ~2v over a linear reg



Anyway - that was something else i wanted to play with but with the CPU mods if it goes boom or works i'll let you know anyway

Tom