BSEL Mod on E2180?

[quadomatic]

What is a BSEL Mod, and how do I do one on an E2180?

Thanks

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: quadomatic
What is a BSEL Mod, and how do I do one?

Do a search, their are some excellent BSEL threads, some with photo links.

Basically, you short several pins on the CPU to "trick" an 800 FSB CPU into running at 1066 or 1333 FSB. Sometimes works, sometimes not.

 

[quadomatic]

I can't seem to find any threads.

Also, I don't know of anyone trying this mod with an E2180, which is the processor that it would be intended for.

 

[Goldfish4209]

Why not just overclock it in BIOS?

 

[quadomatic]

Because the motherboard I was looking at (Fry's E2180 puts the FSB on the processor to 200, and the FSB can only be raised 300 mhz-ish before it freaks out because it raises the PCI bus too.

I'm still unsure whether or not a BSEL mod can be done on an E2180. Can someone link me to a thread that explains how to do a BSEL mod?

 

[PCTC2]

If you search "pin-mod" instead, you get threads. Basically, Intel uses the BSEL pin settings "High" or "Low" (1 or 0) in certain combinations to determine FSB speed and connecting BSEL pins to VCC or GND pins to change their value changes the FSB.

Here's my old thread for BSEL pin-modding. Link

EDIT: Follow the E4300 to 1066FSB first. The First link is for 1066->1333 FSB.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Originally posted by: quadomatic
Because the motherboard I was looking at (Fry's E2180 puts the FSB on the processor to 200, and the FSB can only be raised 300 mhz-ish before it freaks out because it raises the PCI bus too.

I'm still unsure whether or not a BSEL mod can be done on an E2180. Can someone link me to a thread that explains how to do a BSEL mod?

ECS makes a few decent boards but you should stay away from those Fry's throw-away boards if you intend to overclock. These boards will run okay at stock speed, but they don't like to work at the higher speed in the long run...even with the pin mod.

No $? Then wait.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: SerpentRoyal
ECS makes a few decent boards but you should stay away from those Fry's throw-away boards if you intend to overclock. These boards will run okay at stock speed, but they don't like to work at the higher speed in the long run...even with the pin mod.

What? As long as the board/chipset was designed to run at the higher, pin modded speed, then they should last as long as any other board. If the board/chipset doesn't officially support the higher FSB, then it will just ignore the pin mod.

I've had reasonable success overclocking socket 754 and socket 939 ECS Nvidia chipset boards BITD. And yes, some were long-term overclocks as well.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: SerpentRoyal
ECS makes a few decent boards but you should stay away from those Fry's throw-away boards if you intend to overclock. These boards will run okay at stock speed, but they don't like to work at the higher speed in the long run...even with the pin mod.

What? As long as the board/chipset was designed to run at the higher, pin modded speed, then they should last as long as any other board. If the board/chipset doesn't officially support the higher FSB, then it will just ignore the pin mod.

I've had reasonable success overclocking socket 754 and socket 939 ECS Nvidia chipset boards BITD. And yes, some were long-term overclocks as well.

I was referring to the E21x0 chips with throw-away ECS Intel boards. Most come with DDR/DDR2 sockets. Even with the pin mod, any atttempt to raise the FSB by a few MHz can cause system corruption down the road.

My main rig is the ECS 939 KN1 Lite. This board has no problem with 300MHz overclock. Vcore adjustment is not very accurate, but enough to get the job done.