Somebody has apparently hacked a Pentium M 1.2Ghz into their Eee PC:
You can read more and see several photos at jkkmobile and blog.tom.com.
Pentium M 1.2Ghz Hack
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Seems just a witttttttttttle bit dodgy.
Funny, I actually have two of these processors kicking around on my shelf and just ordered two EEEs – but I’d like to know what he means by “soldering was interesting but complicated”
How come this processor is running at its full speed.? Doesnt the bios limits the fsb to 70..
it’s running at 840 MHz … 70 MHz x 12
Seems overly dangerous for such a little boost for my tastes. Not dicounting the coolness of this mod, but too scary.
It’s for the situations when you have absolutely no other ways of lenghtening your mental-genitals.
@LayZ maybe, but if you have the equipment why not try it- I modernized a 400 Mhz celeron laptop to 700 MHz by replacing the processor and soldering a bridge onto the socket – it took an hour or so of tinkering but the payoff worth it.
Saying 1.2Ghz got my hopes up, to find it’s running under what most eee’s are overclocked to safely (that being ~900Mhz).
Not taking anything away from this mod or the modder, though I think if there was some way to get 1.2Ghz stable out of this mod then I’m VERY interested.
Other than that, I hope this paves the way for other people to try and squeeze better CPUs in there!
For those wondering about 840 MHz vs. the full speed for the CPU, the author of the hack says that by default the BIOS sets it up at 840 MHz (i.e. 70 MHz x 12), but that by using frequency tuning software like eeeclock, he/she can set the CPU to full speed when necessary. This note is at the bottom of the first blog page right before the comments. No comment about the overall stability of the system when at higher speeds, however. For certain, this would take some very steady hands… Nonetheless, that support for this CPU is built into the BIOS may indicate some future intentions of ASUS.
has any one tryed the macbook air cpu on a eee?
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