Wire Trick

[Corey0808]

Has anybody tried the wire trick outlined here that will give you multi settings up to 12.5? It doesn't seem to hard. Can it do any damage to a CPU? Thanks for the info...

 

[beyoku]

I have done it and i have an MP board. You should try to get the smallest wires possible so your CPU will be seated evenly. At first i used speaker wire which DID work, but wires from a floppy cable OR a cpu fan wire are a lot smaller. it works VERY good.

 

[deadseasquirrel]

works perfectly. did my 1700+ tbred @ 13.5x166 back 9 months ago. been working great ever since.

 

[Mingon]

I prefer using conductive paint on the pins personally, works fine on my 2 x 2.266 bartons:-> new 2500+ mobiles soon to be added

 

[Corey0808]

Anybody have any pictures of a CPU with modded pins on the bottom?

 

[deadseasquirrel]

I actually did the Socket method. Change the View to Socket. I found it easier to simply bend the small clips of wire into a "U" shape and insert them into the correct Sockets versus trying to bend them around certain pins.

I would rip off the HSF and take a pic, but, really, it wouldn't help much. The wires are so thin and tiny that you wouldn't be able to see them inside the sockets.

 

[peonyu]

Yes it works and is unbelievably easy to do. Just make sure you have a Tbred/Barton, cause it wont work on Palomino chips unless its L1 bridges are painted.

 

[aka1nas]

How can you tell if it it will be the lower(up to 12.5x) or higher(the doubled one) multiplier that is listed in the menu of that guide? I have two 1700+ Tbred Bs that I wanna get past 12.5x.

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
How can you tell if it it will be the lower(up to 12.5x) or higher(the doubled one) multiplier that is listed in the menu of that guide? I have two 1700+ Tbred Bs that I wanna get past 12.5x.

Go to that ocinside page and change to SOCKET view, change to Tbred, don't worry about Vcore or FSB, change MUTLIPLIER to anything you want such as 13.5xfsb.

See the black lines on the drawing? Those will be the sockets that you will connect with U-shaped wires. Simply clip off tiny pieces from inside some speaker/lamp wire. Bend them into a U-shape and then insert each end into the corresponding socket on that drawing. Stick your chip back in.

Now, and this is important, go straight to the BIOS and change the multiplier to AUTO. Don't set it to the one your drawing determined. Keep it at AUTO.

Boot and test for stability. It can be a pain to always havta yank the chip off and replace the wires as your testing for stability. I tried everything from 15x to 13.5x. 15 got into windows but failed 3dmark. 14 killed out on Prime95 after a few mins. 13.5 has been rock stable @ 166fsb for me. If I had an Nforce2 board with some good pc3200, I'm sure it would be a different story. But I'm happy with 166x13.5 now on this Tbred B 1700+.

 

[pspada]

It appears that all you need it one wire to unlock the multiplier up to 12.5 on a Barton chip? That might be worth doing, much as I dislike hardware mods.