pin mod for e4300

[sochee]

Stumbled on this thread while searching for something similar, just have to say, there is no real need to do a pin mod for the E4300 on the ASRock 775i65G board - if you have the revision 2 board, you can change FSB manually (up to 300mhz) and adjust RAM frequency and timings. I have my E4300 running at 2.5GHz stable (wont go higher than 278fsb, but its because of the RAM) with 2 x 512 Patriot DDR400 sticks, the real drawback on this board is that you can't adjust DIMM voltage, so you can't really use any modules over 2.7v (unless you buy DDR500 @ 2.8v and clock it down to the 300fsb, which should theoritically bring it down to 2.7v).

 

[iuseyew]

finally i have the defogger kit to paint this... it wasnt too difficult to tape with scotch and paint with the provided huge brush but i did have to scratch a little bleed through off with a plastic pointed thing cant wait to test it now this stuff looks like it would come off very easy i wouldnt want to rub it because it seems like it may just powder off...

 

[JWMiddleton]

Originally posted by: Doh!
There are numerous ecs owners who have successfully performed the pin mod on their e4300, resulting in a 33% overclock (from 200 to 266). Currently, I have mine at 2.7 ghz (9x300). Not bad for a super cheap Fry's combo.

I obtained the instructions from postings made by highwire and Zap. I have posted the pics. at ocforums.com

Curiuos if you really are running at 300FSB. Since you mentioned the "pin mod", then I assume you know what you are doing.

I have the Fry's combo and have run it for a few month on PC3200 RAM at stock speeds. It runs DC 24/7 for TeAm AnandTech. Best Buy had a stick of PC-5300 (667) DDR2 RAM onsale for $19.99 this morning, so I bought it. With the faster RAM I upped the FSB setting in the BIOS to 300, the max when I enabled overclocking. I then ran the latest version of CPU-Z and found that the FSB was actually running at 225 for an OC of only 225 Mhz. I have the RAM set at highest setting of 533 and the ratio seems to automatically set itself to 3:4.

What am I missing? Any suggestion besided the "pin mod?"

 

[JWMiddleton]

Well, figured it out. In another post I read where someone had set the BIOS to 300 and the system cut it back to 225. I had actually wondered if that were happening and this was my confirmation. So, I rebooted and set FSB to 234 and it took. So, I started bumping it up with my next stop at 250. Then I figured why not try for 266. Well, it would not boot and I had to reset the BIOS to get back into the system.

So, I dropped the FSB to 255 for some strange reason. Upon rebotting I heard the HD making a funny noise. Guess I should admit that I'm using an older PATA drive. Well, I must have trashed something on the HD as it would only come up with the BOOT record's boot menu asking what version of Windows I wanted to enter. Nothing worked included basic Safe Mode. So, I'm trying a repair to see I can salvage it.

Guess I should be happy with 240 FSB and a 20% OC for what I paid.