Vid pin risk

[KLowD9x]

Is there a risk of anything going wrong with the vid pin tricks? also, what are they and can they be fixed?

[Placid]

If the wires touch the wrong pins you can burn out the cpu.
You could get a static electricity discharge when touching the cpu pins and kill the cpu.

If you are careful you should not have any problems.

[outhouse]

Also if you wrap the wrong pins which is easy to do or mistake your default CV or have the wrong CPU you can send to much CV through your CPU and if it gets hot enough without proper cooling you can turn your CPU into toast.

[Super]

Don't forget to reset your CMOS before you turn the computer on, with the vidpinned CPU in it.

[TC]

wrapping the pins can also prevent the cpu from seating completely flat and level in the socket, which would result in uneven contact with the heatsink. You can get around this by hollowing out a small space in the socket for the wire to rest in so it has clearance and the cpu will seat properly. Of course doing that involves more risks - since you'd probably use a dremel tool on the socket.

Unfortunately the wire trick is only thing I found to up the core voltage on my P4 using an Asus P4T. The bios voltage settings don't change anything according to the hardware monitor. I just finished setting up an Abit TH7II, and it too has core voltage problems. It does up the voltage, but not anywhere close to what setting I choose. Right now the bios is set to 2.1 volts and hardware monitor is reading 1.87 At least it works to some degree because the wire wrap is not happening on this 478 micro pin cpu. The pins are way too close together and they're maybe 1/8 inch long.

[minoukat]

One thing I read on the front page of Overclockers.com, is that you can make a vidpin trick a lot more safe than by wrapping it on the pins. Just take a little cable (the same as for pin wrapping), and just put it in the socket connectors where the corresponding vidpins are supposed to go. That way, no chance of wrapping the wrong pin or something (except if you put the wire in the wrong connector !) I'll try to find that article and send a link here.


EDIT : here it is : http://www.overclockers.com/tips630/

PS: this trick also works for the Celerons.

[KLowD9x]

Thanx for the help!