Tried and tested....some mobo fail to detect the CPU after pin modding it. So its not a 100% working process even though the pins are modded correctly. Works best with a C2D 4300 proc....modding it to 1333FSB helps surpass the FSB wall. Other FSB procs like 1066FSB ones are just not worth the effort modding to 1333FSB..there is basically no gain.

Anyway...Artic Silver 5 would not work though its electrically conductive....still not good enough for pin modding. Conductive pen or silver pen is the best choice.

first thing...pencil mod on the rams itself is just not worth doing...no gain at all. The mod only mess with the Eeprom of the ram to make show higher speed ram.

As for CPU pin mod...use conductive pen. LGA775 no more pins. Wire mod works for pinned CPUs only. In fact, conductive pen marks can be removed easily too...just use nail varnish remover.

This post has been edited by extremeocer: Sep 27 2007, 09:08 PM

there are many types of conductive pen....normal conductive pen and silver pen...us silver, much better result.

Sim Lim Tower in Spore can buy these pens.

What are you talking about?.....paint on the plate???

Pencil only works on those Athlon XP where you just join the bridges. Pencil mod DOESN'T work on LGA775. Tried and tested with 5 types of pencil (HB, 2B, 3B, 4B and 5B). Whereas the conductive silver pen works like charm. Its also easy to remove.

I don't call it repair...it's more like joining the contacts.