E4300 Pin mod

[Lionhardt]

what kinda conductor do u use?

 

[dasickninja]

It wasn't me, but he used a conductive pen.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Interesting post there ninja.
When you upgrading your silly Xeon to one of these bad boys?

 

[joewho]

I used a Rear Window Defogger repair kit from Autozone.

 

[dasickninja]

Interesting post there ninja.
When you downgrading your silly Xeon to one of these bad boys?

Would be the correction. I'm not giving away my Xeon. Ever. Until they come out with a better one...

 

[Dave_McMahon]

Hi the next time I get memory or similar I will try the Pin mod so thanks Ninja

 

[balister]

I'll say, you'll need very efficient cooling like a T120 or similar, and you'd better hope that you're chip batch is a good one. By the way, do you mean E4300 and not E4400? To my knowledge, Intel hasn't released another Allendale series chip as of yet. :?

No, I do mean the E4400 as it should be shipping in the next month or two. Reason being is it allows up to a 10x multiplier vs. the 9x multiplier of a E4300.

 

[Hicks121]

Here is some more info on this bsel mod

 

[little_scrapper]

I want to see the 333 mod and testamonials that it works.

 

[krwshl]

Does anyone know if a pin mod can be done on an E6400, I have this processor with a Dell C520 motherboard.

Thanks

 

[dasickninja]

http://sg.vr-zone.com/?i=3904
http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=3931

Voltage mods, but mods none the less.

 

[Gary_Busey]

I'm getting the e4300 with this board:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-VSTA&s=775

and I'll be using DDR400 ram. I believe this board has some overclocking capabilities, but not much. Would this board be able to handle this mod, would it even be worth attempting this mod if I can already overclock through the BIOS?

 

[dasickninja]

Its worth it because it automatically raises the strap without doing anything to the voltages. And with ASROCK boards, I'm thinking you might need all the help you can get.

 

[Gary_Busey]

Its worth it because it automatically raises the strap without doing anything to the voltages. And with ASROCK boards, I'm thinking you might need all the help you can get.

How risky of a mod is this? It won't short anything on the board out will it? I wouldn't have the money to replace anything that breaks.

 

[1Tanker]

Its worth it because it automatically raises the strap without doing anything to the voltages. And with ASROCK boards, I'm thinking you might need all the help you can get.

How risky of a mod is this? It won't short anything on the board out will it? I wouldn't have the money to replace anything that breaks.First of all, if anything goes wrong....at least it's only a sub$60 mobo vs. a $150 board. I haven't heard any horror stories of botched mods...so unless you have Parkinsons...you should be safe. I have the 775 Dual VSTA(basically the same). With an E6600...stock HSF, it will run @297FSB super stable. 298 won't even post. I'm thinking of doing the AGP(NB) pencil mod for slightly higher FSB's. ~310 is what most modded and tweaked boards are getting stable.Combined with the E4300/E4400...this makes for a cheap, nice performing system. GL

 

[rdhood]

Does anyone know if a pin mod can be done on an E6400, I have this processor with a Dell C520 motherboard.

Thanks

If you mean a "default fsb frequency" pin mod (266->333), that would depend on whether your C520 supports 333Mhz processors (probably not, as there are very few boards that do)

See the other notes on 333 pin mod. You can try!

 

[atp777]

Very sweet writeup. Awesome to know.

Thanks Ninja.

 

[chuckshissle]

Nice info. I'm thinking getting this chip myself if not a quad core on my next upgrade.

 

[Shadow703793]

Nice mod Ninja. I haven't tried this on a C2D yet but have done pin mods on P4's and the Athelon 64's and they all work great.

 

[dasickninja]

If you follow the directions, its as risky as basically just overclocking the chip. Just triple check the connections.

 

[TTMAN]

Hey guys!!! I did the pin mod to my E4300.

I bought the E4300 a few months ago and a asus P5L-VM 1394 mobo. Well turned out it sucked for overclocking, because there was no normal PCI bus setting. Everytime i overclocked the CD burner would click and it didnt want to boot.

The pin mod is great, I overclocked to 2.4Ghz. The PC wouldnt boot unless I changed the FSB in the bios to 266. I was getting the Rom drive clicking before I changed it. But all is well after that. Everything else is on auto. I stuck the voltage in the bios at 1.325v but i dont think it matters. I also disabled intels speedstep but it didnt do anything. It still throttles down to 1.6ghz. VOltatge maxes to 1.304 in CpuZ

The Temps are exactly the same at the 2.4ghz setting as the 1.8ghz!!!

I do have a conroe core though for some reason. The cpu temps are higher with my video card in the board. If I jsut use the on-board video the temps go back to about 38-40c.

 

[darious00777]

Feels pretty damn good, doesn't it?

My only complaint about the pictures... IF ONLY THE DAMN THINGS WERE THAT BIG. I about freaked when I kept overflowing on the wrong pins for three four times. Then I figured out a trick with my silver compound, and all was well.

Ahem, congrats!

 

[TTMAN]

Yeah, The circuitwriter pen doesnt not have very good flow for trying to do a small connection. I ended up making a small pool of it on a plastic applesauce cup. Then I dapped the tip into it and thats how i put it on. Took me about 5 times to get it how i wanted it.


Do you guys think my voltage is high enough? It runs about 1.28 to 1.30; with a setting of 1.325. It doesnt drop down low anymore so i guess setting the voltage manually in the bios works. I read that 1.325 is normal for 1.8ghz. I never saw it go that high for the auto setting when i was running it stock.

I use this computer for work also, so i don't want to have problems. 2.4Ghz I'm happy with

 

[dj_taboo]

So... if this mod were to be performed on the upcoming e4500
266 x 11 = 2.93 ghz
Wow... Thats fast for less than $150

 

[darious00777]

Yeah, The circuitwriter pen doesnt not have very good flow for trying to do a small connection. I ended up making a small pool of it on a plastic applesauce cup. Then I dapped the tip into it and thats how i put it on. Took me about 5 times to get it how i wanted it.


Do you guys think my voltage is high enough? It runs about 1.28 to 1.30; with a setting of 1.325. It doesnt drop down low anymore so i guess setting the voltage manually in the bios works. I read that 1.325 is normal for 1.8ghz. I never saw it go that high for the auto setting when i was running it stock.

I use this computer for work also, so i don't want to have problems. 2.4Ghz I'm happy with

1.225V-1.325V is what's good for the chip, 2.75-2.85 is what I remember seeing my chip hover around at the 2.4 ghz.

For the circuit writer pen, I did the same thing, but on a piece of paper. Took my second time to get it right that way, and even then I worried like mad that I didn't cross anything up, or that my previous attempt wasn't going to dilute any of the signals.

And yes, a 2.4 ghz Core2Duo is a mighty fine thing.

So... if this mod were to be performed on the upcoming e4500
266 x 11 = 2.93 ghz
Wow... Thats fast for less than $150

Ahem, $140 expected. Which is why I'm not bothering with the E4400.

An X6800 powered chip, give about 5% performance due to the cache, for a fair share less. Well, probably around the power of an E6800 chip when it comes out. The X6800 seems to have something for it that gives it a slight boost at the same speed as other Core2 chips.