Just bought 10 of these https://www.ebay.com/itm/325276918502 Figured why not. Could also be some higher rated cores hiding. I have a couple Durons I can sacrifice for the cause.

supercordo wrote on 2023-09-16, 03:23:

Hello, Awhile back i seen where someone added resisters to a Pentium pro CPU to make it more stable at higher overclocks. I'm wondering if its possible to do the same with Slot A thunderbirds. In the picture you can see that it is blank. The thunderbird cpu for socket A has them filled. Does anyone wanna test this theory out?

Your core is cracked, capacitors will not help it 🙁

some of those may be resistors but most are probably decoupling capacitors.

taking some from a same core socket 462 is probably an option that would get you close to correct values. you would have to measure those pads and figure out which pads connected to vss and vcc those would be the ones that you would populate.

if it helps overclocking, it won't likely be by much.

Sphere478 wrote on 2023-09-21, 05:16:

some of those may be resistors but most are probably decoupling capacitors.

All of these are Reverse Geometry Capacitor (RGC) has its terminations on the longer side of its rectangular shape.
https://www.kyocera-avx.com/products/ceramic- … hip-capacitors/

100 and 10nF * 6.3V
At one time it was fashionable to use them on processors.
It’s better to replace each one with a stack of 0603 capacitors, like 1uF+0.1uF+10nF.

shevalier wrote on 2023-09-21, 06:25:

All of these are Reverse Geometry Capacitor (RGC) has its terminations on the longer side of its rectangular shape. https://www. […]
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Sphere478 wrote on 2023-09-21, 05:16:

some of those may be resistors but most are probably decoupling capacitors.

All of these are Reverse Geometry Capacitor (RGC) has its terminations on the longer side of its rectangular shape.
https://www.kyocera-avx.com/products/ceramic- … hip-capacitors/

100 and 10nF * 6.3V
At one time it was fashionable to use them on processors.
It’s better to replace each one with a stack of 0603 capacitors, like 1uF+0.1uF+10nF.

They do look pretty sexy on the pentium mmx 😀

shevalier wrote on 2023-09-21, 04:01:

supercordo wrote on 2023-09-16, 03:23:

Hello, Awhile back i seen where someone added resisters to a Pentium pro CPU to make it more stable at higher overclocks. I'm wondering if its possible to do the same with Slot A thunderbirds. In the picture you can see that it is blank. The thunderbird cpu for socket A has them filled. Does anyone wanna test this theory out?

Your core is cracked, capacitors will not help it 🙁

That was just a photo off google.

Rookie cracks. Here's how you do it: Crimes Against Silicon: Scuffed CPU/GPU cores

But yeah, main bottlenecks for overclocking would be silicon lottery and motherboard VRM.