Northwood pin mods?

[PureScoundrel]

Is there any pin mods out there that would let me change the multiplier on a 478 pin northwood celeron or p4m?

 

[Frank DC]

No.

 

[Stugots]

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Multipliers have been locked on Intel CPU's since the Pentium 2. There is no way to unlock them.

 

[Duke3d87]

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Multipliers have been locked on Intel CPU's since the Pentium 2. There is no way to unlock them.

What about a FSB 400 to 533 mod? I have a 2.7 Celeron and wanted to boost the FSB to 533 MHz. I have ther thermaltake Tower112 (CU version) and wanted to make my celeron faster.

 

[Stugots]

That may work, the FSB is not locked, thats how all Intels are overclocked. We don't have the luxury of unlocked multipliers like AMD boys do.

Even at 3.6ghz, that Celeron will probobly still be as fast as a P4@2.4-2.6. Northwood Celeron's were perhaps the worst Celeron's ever made.

 

[PureScoundrel]

Could I do the bus speed mod on a 845MP chipset?

 

[lithium726]

this is the first hit from a google search for "845MP"

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/845mp/index.htm

it is designed only for 400. i would be surprised if it worked at 533 without ill effects.

 

[Duke3d87]

That may work, the FSB is not locked, thats how all Intels are overclocked. We don't have the luxury of unlocked multipliers like AMD boys do.

Even at 3.6ghz, that Celeron will probobly still be as fast as a P4@2.4-2.6. Northwood Celeron's were perhaps the worst Celeron's ever made.

I don't really care if it performs similiar to a 2.4-2.6 Northwood cause it's kinda slow as it is. Do you know where i can find the actual guide?

 

[PureScoundrel]

I would be willing to try the mod if someone can link to the guide.

 

[UltimaParadox]

I would be willing to try the mod if someone can link to the guide.

Eh this is purely dependent on your motherboard, as always increasing your FSB puts strain on the rest of your system. Dont expect to get to far unless you have AGP/PCI locks

 

[Donnie27]

That may work, the FSB is not locked, thats how all Intels are overclocked. We don't have the luxury of unlocked multipliers like AMD boys do.

Even at 3.6ghz, that Celeron will probobly still be as fast as a P4@2.4-2.6. Northwood Celeron's were perhaps the worst Celeron's ever made.

Only certain Processor lines have unlocked multipliers and they are sold by Intel and AMD BTW. These are limited to FX and EE line from AMD and Intel respectively. Of course there are excepts for some procs and lower multipliers. Then there a "fall-back" 14 on some Intel Procs.

The Celeron version of the P4 is an absolute POS for most folks in this market. It is not just the 128K L2 but its crippled Bitwidth or Bandwidth to access that tiny of mount of cache or so said one Intel Guy (Employee). It's meant as a "Light Duty" processor he also said.