SoftFSB is well Good, but voltage?

[gingaaar]

Greetings peeps!

I recently purchased a system that was impossible to overclock in bios and on the board (unless it was an unlocked Atholon and I could change a multiplier setting but the FSB was automatic)

I found out about (and downloaded eagerly) a lovely piece of kit called SoftFSB and after prying open my machine with a crowbar and tracing down the PLL chip I found that I could indeed increase my P500E coppermine to 620 (whopppeeeee!!!)

however, I would like to go a little bit further after this heavy petting but again I am stumped about controling the voltage as I think a small voltage increase could help me nicely and I may be able to get a stable (as it is unstable otherwise) 668.2MHz.

Does anyone know of such a way to increase voltage without me having to hard wire it into my motherboard.

yours ever so happily but not satisfied,

gingaaaaaaaR

[Jon]

Do you know the stepping of this chip? Sandra should be able to tell you.

If it's a cC0 or better you can do the VID pin mod. I've done it to a few of my chips and has done wonders.

You can check it out here (http://www.hardocp.com/articles/intel_stuff/bumpvoltage.html).

It's not hard to do, just takes a steady hand and a little patience.

I only recommend it for those two steppings since the cB0 will only go to 2.05V at the least over default because of internal connections to the Vss pin.

There are a few threads in Intel CPUs regarding this little trick if you want to do a search for more info.

[gingaaar]

What a wonderful place the world is!

a solution, light at the end of the tunnel, etc

but the question is?

are they the same for all 370 cpu's...?

I suppose they should be, but I will take your advice and search for simialr threads.

regards,

the gingaaar one

[gingaaar]

cA2 is the stepping, whatever this means, any ideas?

[gingaaar]

I did iT! but the maximum voltage I could get was an extra .05 of a volt. boo hoo!

it took me three hours with numerouse copper strands of wire and a couple of sewing needles...

still, thanks for the help,

Glenn