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Post by george on Mar 26, 2019 17:17:24 GMT -5
Been tinkering a bit with an old Compaq unit, found and flashed a modded bios at bios-mods that gives Quad & Xeon support although have not tested that part yet. Have a C2D E8600 coming in. The E1400 works suprsingly well. Not sure were its limit is cause have not tested it. The RAM will be the limiting factor.
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Post by Vinster on Mar 26, 2019 21:14:41 GMT -5
that is freaking neat. I didn't know that site existed. thanks for sharing.
Vin
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Post by george on Apr 1, 2019 13:45:44 GMT -5
The E8600 CPU arrived today, dropped it into the socket. Brief test with SetFSB. Seem to lock up if going 3.45GHz (stock voltage, no adjustment available). At stock frequency, the WEI for calculations went from 5 to 6,7. Memory 5 to 5,5. 3.4GHz goes stably. |
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Post by Vinster on Apr 1, 2019 14:17:01 GMT -5
I'm just amazed it booted with it.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Apr 1, 2019 14:52:06 GMT -5
I'm just amazed it booted with it.
Vin I'm not. All Wolfies are the same microcode. |
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Post by Vinster on Apr 1, 2019 15:00:03 GMT -5
I wasn't aware of that. I thought there was a coding difference.
Vin
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Post by ground on Apr 2, 2019 8:35:06 GMT -5
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Post by george on Apr 2, 2019 15:02:04 GMT -5
Pretty cool if this motherboard can do 400MHz. From the thread you pointed seem all Exxx CPUs can be made this mod. Interested to try, will try both the E1400 and E8600. Thanks for the info, ground!
EDIT: I see that for the E1400 need to make a different BSEL mod, to let it go from 200MHz -> 266MHz (ie 266x10=2.66GHz)
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Post by george on Dec 8, 2020 13:43:22 GMT -5
Made a transaction to acquire a Xeon CPU for this unit for the "fun" of it. Since it comes from the other side of the globe, delivery date range is some 2 months. However, been thinking if I could find a bit more modern uATX board for this box that would be just plug&play wr. to front panel connectors. Not being very familiar with intel stuff from say 5 years ago, but if someone here knows what might work. Can be be a DDR2 or DDR3 board , while there are good features for tweaking w. good performance.
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Post by george on Mar 10, 2021 13:28:22 GMT -5
The Xeon did not show up but now found a Xeon® Processor X5460.
Dropped it in, seem to have issues with POST in this unit, but eventually it went on, seem need a power cycle to pass POST,
but this is most likely due it is a 120W TDP CPU, and this board does not really have design or capacity for it.
When booting completed, can hear the fan control is struggling with the heat&load caused. ah well, CPU only me cost a couple of bucks.
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