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AMD Overclocking, Motherboard Soldering, Workshop

SOYO SY KT400A Dragon Lite Vcore mod

It’s very easy to increase the Vcore of the SOYO SY KT400A Dragon Lite mainboard by soldering just one resistor to the right point to allow your CPU much higher frequency. Of course it’s necessary to be very careful if you’re soldering something on your mainboard in order not to kill your board. And of course your warranty void if you solder anything on your mainboard ! Therefore i recommend a good grounding and a soldering station with seperate grounding … Continue reading SOYO SY KT400A Dragon Lite Vcore mod →

AMD Overclocking, Motherboard Soldering, Workshop

Elitegroup (ECS) K7S6A, K7S5A, K7VZA and K7AMA VCORE MOD

It’s very easy to increase the Vcore of the Elitegroup (ECS) Mainboards K7S6A, K7S5A, K7VZA and K7AMA by soldering just one resistor to the right point to allow your CPU much higher frequency. Of course it’s necessary to be very careful if you’re soldering something on your mainboard in order not to kill your board. And of course your warranty void if you solder anything on your mainboard ! Therefore i recommend a good grounding and a soldering station with … Continue reading Elitegroup (ECS) K7S6A, K7S5A, K7VZA and K7AMA VCORE MOD →

Display Solder Guides, Modding

20×4 and 20×2 LCD display DIY guide

The new soldering guide with two different pinouts… What’s the sense in putting a display in your PC… It’s up to your own how you use the display, shall it be for displaying song tiles, indication of DVD, VideoCD, or musicCD-titles, for showing the data of mainboard monitoring programms like Mainboard Monitor to have the temperatures or the speed-o-meter in the eye angle, to represent different gamestats,for showing the up- and/or downloadspeed of the internet or network connection or just … Continue reading 20×4 and 20×2 LCD display DIY guide →

Display Solder Guides, Modding

20×4 LCD display DIY guide

The wire has to be soldered to the 20×4 rows display like this… In order that nothing can go wrong i indicate all colors. Pin1 black and ground, Pin2 red, Pin3 grey, Pin4 green-brown, Pin5 blue, Pin6 brown, Pin7 yellow-brown, Pin8 green, Pin9 yellow-white, Pin10 pink, Pin11 grey-brown, Pin12 purple, Pin13 green-white, Pin14 yellow, Pin15 blue-red, Pin16 white. That’s it! Here is the pinout of the other side of the display. And here is a picture of the finished display … Continue reading 20×4 LCD display DIY guide →

Display Solder Guides, Modding

20×2 LCD DIY guide

The wire has to be soldered to the 20×2 rows display like this… In order that nothing can go wrong I indicate all colors. Pin1 black and ground, Pin2 red, Pin3 grey, Pin4 green-brown, Pin5 blue, Pin6 brown, Pin7 yellow-brown, Pin8 green, Pin9 yellow-white, Pin10 pink, Pin11 grey-brown, Pin12 violet, Pin13 green-white, Pin14 yellow, Pin15 blue-red, Pin16 white. The allocation is in the theory the same as with a normal single-line allocation, however the pins are count different – Pin … Continue reading 20×2 LCD DIY guide →

IR Receiver USB, Modding

Self-made USB infrared receiver to remote control your PC

Self-made USB infrared receiver to remote control your PC Succeeding the infrared receiver for the serial port I would like to present to you a very special instruction, which leads you to possession of an IR receiver fro the USB port. USB is unfortunately a bit more complicated than serial … Admittedly it is not as easy as the use of the serial port, because the USB port needs special drivers to run. Thus we need some kind of firmware, … Continue reading Self-made USB infrared receiver to remote control your PC →

Misc Mods, Modding

When the cooler doesn’t fit onto your board because of a tall capacitor!

What to do if the heatsink does not fit on the Mainboard, just because an electrolytic capacitor is beneath the socket and prevents an attachment of a bigger heatsink or a capacitor beneath the AGP slot prevents you to put your brandnew Geforce 4 card in the AGP slot ? In my example it was the alpha PAL 8045 heatsink which has prepared some problems on the ENMIC 8TCX+ Obviously, you can treat on the one hand the ventilator with … Continue reading When the cooler doesn’t fit onto your board because of a tall capacitor! →

Hardware Reviews, Power Supplies - PSU

Sunbeamtech SUNNUO550-EUAP-SV 550 Watt modular PSU Hardware Review

Current processors, video cards and also strongly overclocked components have larger Requirements of the used PSU. Because straight with the popular increase of the voltage (e.g. Vcore, VDDR, GPU voltage, etc.) to the achievement from better overclocking results increases also drastically the power consumption of the PC. If one uses compressor cooling or other high performance cooling systems to the heat dissipation, it can also result in an overloading of the power supply unit (PSU), which results in the most … Continue reading Sunbeamtech SUNNUO550-EUAP-SV 550 Watt modular PSU Hardware Review →

AMD Overclocking, AMD Slot A OC, Overclocking Results, Workshop

AMD Athlon 500 Overclocking with Cachedivisor

AMD Athlon 500 Overclocking with Cachedivisor Here are the AMD Athlon 500 Overclocking results with different cache divisor. Results from 17.01.2000: Now my second Athlon 500 CPU runs without any problems at 850MHz. I changed the cachedivisor to 1/3 instead of 1/2 to get the Athlon 50MHz higher. It’s questionable if it’s worth to increase CPU speed by decreasing the cacherate. But i notice only an insignificant difference between 1/2 Cache and 1/3 with benchmark programs like Final reality or … Continue reading AMD Athlon 500 Overclocking with Cachedivisor →

AMD Overclocking, AMD Slot A OC, Overclocking Results, Workshop

Gigabyte 7IX and MSI 6167 Overclocking Results

Gigabyte 7IX and MSI 6167 Overclocking Results Here are some Gigabyte 7IX and MSI 6167 Mainboard Overclocking Results. On 19.12.1999 we’ve tested two AMD Athlon 500 processors on 3 different boards. We got best results with the new ASUS K7M board. We had some problems to overclock the Athlon processor with the Gigabyte 7IX and MSI 6167 board: – It’s impossible to change CPU-Vcore by Jumper or BIOS. – We soldered the Vcore, but it failed to get results above … Continue reading Gigabyte 7IX and MSI 6167 Overclocking Results →

Display Solder Guides, Modding

Build your own LC-Display older

This LCD display self mounting instruction has not so much to do with overclocking but it made fun to me to install and set up the display so that I don?t want to withhold it from you. (LC display would be the right expression as it is called already Liquid Crystal Display, but it sounds strange to me) What is finally shown on the display and if you mount the display in a 5 ¼ ” front blind of the … Continue reading Build your own LC-Display older →