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    Doubtful AMD Socket A submissions from RIBEIROCROSS

    in HWBOT OC-Crime Center

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    This was not the first submission that I doubt but I want to make it the last.

    http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=7436 - here's the start of the story.

     

    In short, at first REIBEROCROSS shows a Sempron validation that is not a Sempron at all. He tries to explain it with bridge mods. The only problem is that Sempron CPUs are known to have locked multiplier and can't change their multiplier via bridges.

     

    Then he pretends to be deaf talking about Duron Applebred unlocking (most of which are unlocked and don't require any modifications).

     

    Yesterday, he brings this thread up after 4 years! And shows what he wants us to think is a unlocked via modification Sempron CPU (for the younger, there indeed were none Semprons with default x15 multiplier) - http://valid.canardpc.com/0ccfmn

     

    I want to ask moderators to question him the nature of the mod and verify it by repeating it step-by-step. He doesn't need to make it public, I just want to be sue it's not cheating.

    Pretty much the same verification you've done with bob's tweak and others.

     

     

    If you need any help understanding Socket A modifications or other in-depth things, I'll provide you all the needed info.

    Old School Overclocking Tools

    in General overclocking

    Posted

    Not too much useless (except nhancer). More are simply outperformed. Newer heating utilities, newer and more universal clocking utilities.

    Let's not forget that newer utilities are much heavier and have prerequisites (did someone say .NET?) whereas the old one were 20-200KB and worked like a flash even on socket 7.

    I'll speak for myself - the interface of old utilities looks more friendly to me than the newer fancy ones with bell 'n' whistles.

     

    Gotta post what I've got :D

    Old School Overclocking Tools

    in General overclocking

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    My main question is - how do you see this in the end, PJ?

    A single archive with "everything be it old, useful or useless" or several archives for each category (say, VGA, chipset or by platform)? Or like a section on the site with subsections and descriptions for each utility?

     

    I am willing to help but will spend my time only on something interesting and worth it.

    Old School Overclocking Tools

    in General overclocking

    Posted

    CPU stress utilities

    (like the modern Prime95, Lynx and others):

     

    • CPU Heat
    • Hot CPU Tester

     

    I also have burnCPU utilities (burn K6, burnK7 and others).

     

    CPUID (simple as it sounds - brothers of CPU-Z)

     

    • Central Brain Identifier - built specifically for AMD K7 (Athlon XP and others)
      (also includes NF2 timings tweaker and IIRC multiplier management)
    • AMD CPUID
    • AMD CPU Info - never heard of these two.
    • WCPUID - first well known CPUID utility. Identifies older hardware (up to s478?) pretty good. Also has plugins like Real Time Clock, multiplier management for K7, SSE enabling for Palomino, L2 cache latency for P2 and some others.
    • CrystalCPUID - more than just CPUID utility. MSR read/write (if you don't know what it is, you don't need it), K6/K7/K8/Intel EIST multiplier and voltage management, Real Time Clock, lists of devices on PCI logical bus (if you don't know what it is, you don't need it)

     

    CPU utilities

    • RMClock v17 - old version (latest is 2.13 IIRC) - an utility from iXBT.com, made for monitoring throttling, also has multiplier/voltage management via Intel EIST (and AMD C&Q). Can also enable/disable CPU powersaving features.
    • CPUMSR - utility for enabling/disabling CPU features like cache, prefetching, write allocation and stuff (depends on CPU, supports K6/K7/K8 and Intel P4/ Pentium M).

     

    Timing editors:

    • nForce2 Tweaker (by CodeRed) - most comprehensive NF2 editor. Others had much less timings to tweak.
    • Athlon64 Tweaker - the first and fulfil A64 timing editor. Highly recommended.
    • CPU Tweaker - the newest and popular timing editor (in case it's not some other CPU tweaker, will check later)
    • TweakBios 153b - chipset tweaker for very old chipsets (up to 440BX). Works only under DOS.

     

    Overclocking:

    • Clockgen NF2 - specifically for NF2
    • Clockgen NF3 - specifically for NF3
    • Clockgen NF4 - specifically for NF4
    • Clockgen 1.0.5.3 - universal overclock utility for many clockgens of that time.
    • Dothan Clockgen - never heard of it. Probably a multi/voltage editor since overclocking doesn't depend on CPU.

     

    VGA BIOS editors:

    • Ati HD38xx Bios Edit
    • BiosMod (GF2 bios editor)
    • GeForce123Edit (it was for GF and GF2 series I believe) + GeForce123 Runtime
      a BIOS editor and (IIRC) a VGA BIOS emulator! You could change VGA start screen text and view changes in the emulator.
    • X-BIOS Editor 1.0 RC3 b520 - yet another NVIDIA BIOS editor. In fact, it's second name is the more known RVBEdit.
    • RaBiT 2.2.1 - Radeon BIOS Tuner. Supports X800 series, doesn't support Radeon HD series.

     

    VGA voltage tune:

    • Voltage Factory by AwardFabrik - IIRC, first stand-alone utility of such kind (before people used RT plugins to tweak voltage)
    • VoltageTune 1.1.2.1
    • vt1165 (plugin for RivaTuner, HD4890 uses this voltage regulators)

     

    VGA utilities:

    • nTimings 1.0 - timing editor for GF2-5. Based on NV15 BIOS source codes. Needs RT to be installed AFAIK.
    • Coolbits.reg (unlock overclock in Forceware drivers) - not only overclock but other locked driver features too. Though, overclocking was the most important.
    • NVTweak 1.7.1 - NVIDIA tweaker. Worse than RT of course.
    • Riva TNT Clock - overclocking for Riva TNT.
    • Powerstrip - first universal VGA tweaking (and overclocking) utility! One of the oldest. It could even clock my S3 Trio64+.

     

    Other:

    • ERAMN220 (the xp/2000 ramdisk Japanese oc'ers used in the past/not sure about now, extract with e.g. 7Zip)
    • nHancer 2.2.1 - system optimizer. I consider it junk like other "optimizers"
    • ZTAGP Tool (tool for AGP in chipsets like BX440, KT133, AMD 760 etc.) - AGP feature capability viewer and management like AGP mode, FW and SBA.

     

    This is just a short brief. All of you can read the readme yourself. I don't think any of you are banned from Google. Everything written by memory, could miss something.

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