Posts by Aves

Quote: Originally Posted by spirals well if you have a 2.2 ghz processor and you pinmod a 1.6 your system would slow down...obvious no? Well, I assumed the context of the paragraph made sense, but I guess some...

alright, I guess I will do some spyware scans and a virus scan tonight and see if it finds anything. I am using Norton 2003, so that could be the problem. I'll look into getting a new AV and see if that helps. Thanks

I pinmodded my 9300 in the middle of December (1.7 --> 2.26) when I put a 7800 go GTX in. My system worked great until about a week and a half ago when I noticed random odd glitches and slowdowns. First, I was ripping and burning...

I bought 2 gigs of Transcend RAM for my Inspiron 9300 when it was on sale and my roommate has an Inspiron 6000 and wants the 2x 512mb sticks that I had before. I thought that the I6000 used the same RAM, but in CPU-Z it has PC 3200...

I have an IDE to Firewire/USB2.0 enclosure from AMS found on this page. It looks like they have plans for a Sata to Sata/USB2.0, but I can't find them in stores yet. It says it is a new product. I've been very pleased with my...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. K6 It's a little different for the CPU in the laptop because there's no metal heatspreader over it. What I do apply a very thin layer over the die (put on and spread out with plastic...

I read the stickied pin mod/as5 application guide and read the application guides on arctic silver's website, but there is one thing that I don't understand. The writer of the stickied AS5 guide said that they used the bag method to...

kind of a stupid post title.... There is always something new around the corner... You shouldn't usually base your purchases on products coming out in the future unless they are going to change a whole lot of things (ie PCIe). Oh and...

Thanks! On a side note, is there any possibility of damaging the laptop as a whole by doing the pinmod?

So, the pinmodding tutorial has been stickied for a while and I was wondering, would a Pentium M 400mhz 1.6 @ 2.13 stack up the same as a Pentium M 533mhz 2.13? Also, does the mod affect the lifetime of the chip? I would like to do the...