Can Dell 1300 (910GML chipset) be pin mod?

[trimai]

I just bought the Dell 1300 (910GML chipset). Any one with the same laptop or different laptop with the same chipset successfully pin mod the CPU?

[ozzlo]

according to intel the chipset is only 400mhz FSB so probbably not...

it seems like the chipset is specifally designed fot the celeron-m

[trimai]

I am not sure about that. If you know French, then someone has done a pin mod on Dell 1300 to switch FSB to 533, according to the following link:

http://forum.hardware.fr/forum2.php?post=15943&cat=15&config=hardwarefr.inc&cache=&page=21&sondage=0&owntopic=0&word=I1300&spseudo=&currentnum=392396#t392396

Anyone in our forum has done the pin mod and want to provide comments?

[ozzlo]

Well according to intel it is just a STRIPPED DOWN version of the i915... It seems the board only rejects 533mhz processors if it's got 533mhz in it's name but the bsel[0] pin Is still active so you can put in a 400mhz processor and it will say it's 400mhz and the board will not reject it even if it's pinmodded... the ram has it's own independent crystal from the FSB so it won't be affected. and the chipset is just a scaled down 915 so it should handle 533 just fine.

so wow I guess you can...

Taken from intel whitepapers
Mobile Intel 910GML Express Chipset
Product Features
Note: All features for the Mobile Intel 915GM Chipset are supported on the Intel 910GML unless otherwise
noted in this section.
® ® Intel Celeron M 90 nm processor support
® ® Intel Celeron M 90 nm processor ULV support
400 MHz processor system bus support only System Memory Support
DDR or DDR2 SDRAM channels (64-bits wide) are supported.
DDR - 333 MHz memory device
Single Channel Memory support for DDR 333
DDR2 - 400 MHz memory devices
Dual Channel Memory configuration support for DDR2 400 PCI Express* Based Graphics Interface not supported Integrated Display Interface support
Digital LVDS interface support
Max Panel size supported is SXGA+
Analog TV-Out Interface support
HDTV graphics mode is not supported. Internal Graphics Features
2D Display core frequency support from 133 MHz & 190/200 MHz @ Vcc = 1.05 / 1.5 v
depending on Host/Memory configuration
3D Render core frequency support from 133 MHz & 160/166 MHz @ Vcc = 1.05 / 1.5 V
depending on Host/Memory configuration
§

[trimai]

From reading different forum, this is what I have gathered so far:

1) It worked fine with Celeron M, Pentium M (400 Mhz)
2) It worked fine with Pentium M (533 Mhz). The memory, however, is running asynchronously at 400 Mhz
3) When the Celeron M, Pentium M (400 Mhz) is pin modded, some people are claiming that the processor is running at 533 Mhz and the memory is also running at 533 Mhz. Is this possible? For 910 chipset, I thought the memory is being limited to 400 Mhz. Any thought about the claim that the memory can be run at 533 for 910 chipset?

[ozzlo]

The speed the memmory is run at is a function of bolth the FSB AND the RAM it's self... The chipset is designed in such a way to maximize memmory bandwidth but never overclock the memmory. Some people have 533mhz memmory in there and that is why they are getting to 533mhz. at a 400mhz fsb the memmory is also run at 400mhz even if the ram in there is capabable of 533... once the fsb is increased the ram speed will increase also.

because the 910 chipset is a stripped down version of the 915 chiset it too will obviously have this feature...

[trimai]

ozzlo,

If I have 533 memory, I can pin mod Celeron/Pentium M (400 Mhz) to 533 FSB and the memory will also run at 533?

[sno.lcn]

The pin-mod went great on my inspiron 600m :D

[trimai]

The 600m uses 915 chipset, I think. There is no problem there. Will pin mod work with 910 chipset (both CPU and memory runs at 533)? That's the question.

[ozzlo]

on paper more than likely yes... though intel says it only supports 400mhz memmory BUT intel also says that the fsb can only be 400mhz and that's obviously been proven incorrect. do you have a freind with 533 ram? if so ask him if you could borrow a stick before shelling out the cash for 2 gigs. I'm sorry I can't say preciselly yes or preciselly no because I have never seen this chipset in action though as I said it looks just like an i915 and even the technical documents for the i910 and the i915 are TOGETHER IN THE SAME FILE which hints at how similar they are.