T-bred OC - silver pen or wire trick

[error_911]

guys, haven't even popped my new T-Bred in the mobo yet (well, not for it to work anyways) and i wanna OC it.. was gonna cut the L1 bridges, but then i said "maybe not, don't want to permanently damage it, don't want to void my warantee", so thinkin I'm gonna join the right-most L3 bridge, but then I see a wire trick of joining two pins on the bottom of the cpu (see <A HREF="http://216.239.39.120/translate_c?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de|en&u=http://www.dark-tweaker.com/xp2200_oc.htm&prev=/language_tools" target="_new">here</A>, or even <A HREF="http://www.vr-zone.com/Home/news152/news152.htm#2501" target="_new">here</A> (close to bottom of page)... anyways, pen or wire ?

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[kbear2569]

If you want, you could try the 9-volt battery trick to cut the bridges... That way if you do fry the chip, no one could tell and your warranty would still be good

XP1700 TBred-B @ 2.16G (166*13)
Noise Control Silverado HSF
ASUS A7N8X
2x256MB OCZ EL PC3500 DDR
ASUS GeForce3 Ti200
300 Watt PSU
45G IBM 7200
Windows XP Professional

 

[error_911]

9-volt battery trick ? and why have i never heard of that one before...

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[phsstpok]

Depends on what CPU you have, what mobo you have, and what you are trying to do.

1) If you have an Tbred XP2100+ (or higher) and a mobo like nForce2 and you are tring to access the lower multipliers so that you can go for higher bus speeds then you connect pin AJ27 (8x bit) to Vss (Ground).

This is similar to <b>painting</b> the 5th L3 bridge.

2) If you have a Tbred XP1700+/XP1800 but you are trying to access the higher multipliers (13x and above) then you connect AJ27 to Vcc (Vcore) which pulls the 8x bit HI.

This is similar to <b>cutting</b> the 5th L3 bridge

In both cases if you have a legacy motherboard you have to keep track of how the mod changes your default multiplier.

In some cases you end up with an invalid multiplier.

In other cases you can end up with a multiplier that overclocks too high.

Both situations result in a NO POST.

<b>99% is great, unless you are talking about system stability</b>

 

[error_911]

Hmm, well I'm trying to access the higher (and lower) multiplyers and run my luck with what I can get (either higher multiplyer or higher bus). Its an Athlon 2200.. Hmmm, I think I might just connect my 5th L3 bridge so I don't have to take the time of connecting the aj27 and grnd pins and the added caution when mounting it...

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[phsstpok]

OK, no problems there. Closing the 5th L3 bridge changes your the default multiplier of your Tbred XP2200+ from 13.5x to 5.5x so you won't have a problem POSTing no matter which mobo you have.

<b>99% is great, unless you are talking about system stability</b>

 

[error_911]

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