Here's a good challenge for the hardware hacker that lives in all of us
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I'm attempting an upgrade to old CyrixPR-200 PC built over a Soltek SL-53D5 Socket7 VIA VPX motherboard (NOT the SL-53D5-s) with a newer AMD 500 MHz K6-2 CPU. OK, stop laughing
, this is not my main PC
The K6-2 can easily be configured to run at 6x83 MHz = 500 MHz by setting the jumpers to 83 MHz FSB and 2.0x clock multiplier, the CPU itself translating 2.0x to 6.0x. The catch is the VCORE voltage, which at 2.8 V is too high for the 2.2 V required by the CPU.
Is it possible to configure the jumpers, or modify/hack this motherboard so that it can feed the CPU with 2.2 V ?
Any hardware hackers out there ?