some help with a Duron !gig(morgan core)

[cheapgoose]

ok, so I have a Duron 1Gig and a FIC AD11.

from what I've read from OC, I need an unlocked CPU, and a mobo for overclocking this sucker.

the board allows me to change multiplier and core voltage, but the unlocking part is confusing me.

I've read all the tutorials, with pencil, defogger, but one things is the same, the pictures shown in those instructions do not match the Duron I have.

Now maybe it's not a 1Gig in the picture, but the thing is, all of the articles and pictures only show 4 L1 bridges.

mine has 5 broken bridges next to L1. and no L2.

here's what it looks like.


L1
-> :::::
'|::| '::|| L4
L3


":" are broken bridges, "|" are connected bridge.


<<--------------confused.

any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance!

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

The articles you read were using the older "spitfire" core. The morgan core unlocks the exact same way, except there are 5 L1 bridges to close vs 4 on the old ones.

I have a Morgan Duron and unlocked it, will run 8x145 all day long 🙂

 

[flight23]

I love AT
I just tried to OC my Duron 1Ghz and couldnt figure out why I had 5 L5 bridges and all the sites talked about 4... jumped over here and viola, there's a post about it at the top of the page 🙂

 

[Rivergater]

i'm assuming that you guys are upgrading...
so is there a big difference going from the spitfire to the morgan core?

i'm currently running a 600mhz duron at 800mhz and an A7V and wondering if its worth it...

 

[johncar]

http://www.beachlink.com/candjac/index.htm link to Duron/Tbird Oc'g
articles for complete info re 4 bit/bridges Multiplier code...Final Decoding Palomino for 5 bit/bridges Multiplier code.
Full of pics and diagrams...all youi'll ever need to know to "hard mod" the Multiplier on your chips or over-ride default Multiplier ftom mobo/bios.
John C.

 

[flight23]

Is there any way to change the multiplier on the Morgan Duron 1Ghz on a K7S5A through a BIOS (is there an unlocked bios with that option... the one I have running only lets me alter the bus speed, so Im running at 124 with a clock speed of 1240-50).

The site mentioned in the post above is a hardware fix for Palaminos does it work for Morgans?

 

[rocketbubba]

This is a reply to Rivergater...

I just did the exact upgrade you mentioned. I had a Duron 600 running at 800 (fsb @ 133) on an Iwill KK266. A friend wanted my Duron 600 to give to guy who was just learning ocing (it's a great cpu to begin with - it ran nice and cool at default volts all day long at 133!). Anyway, he offered to buy me a new Morgan 1.0 + some $$ for the 600 and I took it. To answer your question, there isn't a real big difference between the 600 @ 800 and the Morgan performance wise, but that's mostly because of the 133 fsb performance boost. The only real difference I can see is there's a little bit more "snap" in the overall performance. For what it's worth, in my opinion it would be better to upgrade to a 266 T-Bird 1.0+ for the 133 fsb performance. Even though it's cheap, the Morgan isn't really much of an upgrade.

 

[Rivergater]

thanks rocketbubba,
i will hold off on that particular upgrade.
i don't think my a7v can support the 266 tbird so maybe i'll wait a few months and do a more major upgrade.

the max my board allows for is 1.2 gig tbird 200fsb. i've heard people say that the 1 gig duron is a better upgrade than the 1.2 gig tbird...

 

[johncar]

flight23,
Morgan is a Palomino core.
John C.

 

[DualHead]

get a pencil and draw some lines between the L1 bridges. then get a mobo that's capable of some serious FSB. My 1 gig Duron is running 6.5 x 185 FSB at default voltage (1.2 GHz) on an Iwill xp333r and it's 100% stable. I'm using Samsung PC2700 memory with the mem voltage at 2.7v.