First post, by Danger Manfred
Hi.
I'm using this board:
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asrock-4coredual-vsta
And this CPU:
https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/pentium-e5800.c856
With the default voltage of 1.3625V, I was able to raise the FSB from 200 to 16x233, which gives me a clockspeed of 3728 MHz.
However, at 16x240, I get freezes in benchmarks. No biggie, the CPU runs fine up to 16x266 on another board. Just have to raise the Vcore a bit.
But here is the problem: the BIOS doesn't have an option for that! Even though it supports CPUs running at higher voltages.
I did not find any modifications for that, the latest Beta (2.39a) is great, and unlike 2.30 doesn't claim my E5800 was running at 12.69 GHz, which is nice, but it cannot be that hard to just let me select the Vcore manually, can it?
What I did find is a VID mod guide for socket 775 CPUs, see attachment, but frankly I do not understand it. It shows me to connect two pins with conductive ink, but also shows the silver color indicating conductive ink on a single pin, which doesn't make sense at all.
I have no issues risking a near-worthless E5800 in the process, but would like to at least know what to do so I get the voltage I need.
Can anyone help me out?
edit: attached what the calculator wants me to do, maybe I'm just interpreting it wrong