FlareonLover139

thank you, looks like I just need to mess with L5 and then my bios can handle the rest https://web.archive.org/web/20071020015931/http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html#L5

as you said you have been playing with socket A since it was new can you explain exactly what the L12 mod is (from what I am reading it should unlock locked multi chips) but I can not find exactly what it is and some places are even saying it would help my XP-m. if it is just to unlock that would be good as I have a few other barton and thoroughbred non mobile chips I would love to try and push. I was still in diapers when socket A was replaced so trying to find this stuff out can be a bit like an archaeologist trying to figure out what some thing is when all the writings from the day do not explain it as everyone just knew what it was

slightly off topic but as I am using retro hardware I am good to use a modded bios for my motherboard (nothing is said about this one way or the other in the rules) and modded GPU drivers. as the NGO Optimized version of forceware 84.56 plays very nice with the system for overclocking, as section 3.2A of the general rules says that this rule is not actively applied to pre 2010 hardware and drivers

I am not the original owner of this case and only bought it last year and put a good bit of money (for a uni student) into building the system so I am a bit more careful then someone who has been doing this since socket A was new

the CPU might be able to but my cooler is where things get questionable as I have as early vapochill from 2000 that still has R134A in it so is only rated at 120watts, I have swapped out the original slow speed 120by38mm fan with a 4300RPM server fan so that might buy me another 10 or 20 watts. the fastest I have got windows to boot at was 2.73Ghz into safe mode (was trying to get a good time in super pi and safe mode helps on this old CPU) but just to boot was 1.9V and it was still not able to even do a 1m run so I would have to raise the voltage upto likely 1.95V (don't think 1.925 would cut it) and at that point I might push the cooler out of equilibrium and loose regulataion

and that is not just a clock I turn it upto for benchmarking, that is the systems clock for gaming

this is a 1.8Ghz stock clock chip running at 2.52Ghz so that is a 40% overclock, fastest non OCed socket A cpu was 2.33ghz

this is my retro gaming rig and I would like to not blow it up by pushing the rather expensive to replace CPU to far or frying the NB on the motherboard https://pastebin.com/HvEKJA1K full parts list of the rig

Plan is to run basicily every benchmark I can on here and submit the scores (not going to set any records but should still have a good showing) due to the nature of the cooler for some of them I need to wait for cooler days to run them (looking at you superPi32m that pegs the CPU for around 35 minutes) half the point of running posting all the scores is to back up my claim that this is the fastest socket A system in the province of alberta

So I have a super old vapochill cooler from one of the silver and red case coolers that was hacked into a lian Li pc-70 case and does go sub zero. under a benchmarking load the cooling head is maxing out at -5 C and the cpu in use is an anthlon XP so no IHS. what type of pics would I need to provide to work towards this achievement? https://hwbot.org/submission/5558037_flareonlover139_3dmark03_geforce_7800_gs_14062_marks