Overclocking a T-Bird

[JohnJohn]

Okay could someone be kind enough to just tell me what bridges I need to open and which ones I need to close.
I'm so confused by the how to,tried to follow it 5 times
on the 2nd i got it to do something but all i got was garbled characters,then the 3rd it didn't boot, so on the 4th try i put the voltage setting on L7 back to what it was, and now I'm still trying to figure out how to do this.
I finally got it to boot and everything seems fine I was afraid I had fried it. Now could someone tell me which
bridges need to be open and which need to be closed to overclock a 800T-Bird to 1Ghz, I've got thermal compound and a SuperOrb so I'm set.I just cant figure out how to configure the copper bridges.
Any help would greatly be appreciated(considering I've been at this for about 3 days) heh.
-JohnJohn

 

[Guest]

umm, dude, stop messing with that chip before you hurt it ;o)... have you looked at tom's article yet? Or any other articles for that matter? You "close" (meaning connect), the L1 bridges on the chip.. that's it! presto changeo.... look on the chip for the L1 bridges...



-AMD's are not for the faint of heart... Intels? those are for newbies 😱)-

 

[JohnJohn]

heh you mean thats it?
in the article it was talking about opening
the L3,L4,L6 bridges maybe this is where I got confused.
what if my L1 bridges are already connected?

-JohnJohn

 

[Guest]

Ok, If you have multiplier settings on your motherboard you can just select the multiplier that you want. I would start at 9x. Try to get to 900 go slow and easy. With this method you have to connect the L1 bridges on the cpu to look like this |||| Without the bridges connected it will boot up to default cpu speed 800 in your case. Make sure that when you connect the L1 bridges you don't run into another bridge. connect with a hard pencil or better yet a defroster repair kit permatex is the best and will last.

Now if you don't have multiplier settings on your Motherboard you will have to cut certain bridges and connect others. Very tedius job. for 900mhz you would have to connect L6 ||:: L3 |:|: L4 :|:| this would change the default speed to 900mhz. For 1000mhz it would look like this L6 |::: L3 |::| L4 :|:| It would help a lot if you posted your specs so that all can see what you have to work with....

 

[Ncogneto]

Here is a website with a paint by numbers for overclocking the t-birds/durons for those of us that do not have motherboard multipliers.

http://www.ocinside.de/index_e.html



A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!

 

[Guest]

I'm with you john, i took a bench grinder to my chip to cut all those nasty L's. Then i used a nice heaping glob of elmers glue to connect the L1. Seems to work fine for me.

Sorry, just had to say something. It was just to funny...hope you didn't ruin you're chip.

How *YOU* can use you're shower as a cooling device

 

[JohnJohn]

I give up a 25% difference is not that big to
overclock my processor anyways.
Seems like alot of people have figured it out but
I can only get mine upto 849 then it locks up on me.
Oh well I tried.

-John

 

[Guest]

boo! boo! come on, push it, burn it 😱).. but seriously what mobo do you have? (or did I miss that?) If you wanted to overclock it without beating your brains out, you should have gotten an Asus or Abit KT7A


-AMD's are not for the faint of heart... Intels? those are for newbies 😱)-