Pencil mod on AMD athlon

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I built a junk computer from free parts so me and a freind can look up cool junk and talk exc, and it has a AMD athlon(tm) according to ubuntu 11.10. I heard of using a mecanical pencil to bridge 4 connectors to be able to overclock the CPU. Since I dont care about this computer and I want to to run alittle faster, anybody got any tips before I do it? Also I dont think I can overclock the ram, its running at 100mhz, but the ram says 400mhz so is it the mobo limiting it or can I just overclock it?

One thing about Ubuntu I like, it just works. It finds all the drivers when installing so you do nothing. Since the mobo dident have onboard graphics I had a nvidia gf4200 and first time it booted up it worked! All the motherboard drivers for ethernet, sound, ect just works. Cant say that about windows.
 
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wow lol never heard of a pencil mod to OC an athlon. but i havent done any research on it either so yeah lol
 
I've heard about the pencil mod, but only for GPU's, never for a processor. All it does it let more voltage run through the part, so it is unnecessary if you can overclocks it in the bios.
 
Ive also heard of it on gpu not sure how you are going to keep all the carbon on the cpu as it would be in an upright posistion and the carbon would slide off
 
The pencil mod is on the motherboard rather than the CPU... at least that's how I've seen it done most often. It sounds as if he has some sort of stock Dell motherboard or otherwise, so I'm not sure if anyone has ever tried that with something so stock.
 
AMD_Athlon_Pencil_Trick.jpg
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AMD_Athlon_Pencil_Trick.jpg

This is what I mean, I have a soldering iron to that can do the job better. Any thoughts? I cant figure it out in bios its locked I think thats what you haft to do to be able to overclock it since its an old CPU. Im at school so I cant tell you what the motherboard is its a Asus thats all I know ATM.
 
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Hyper-Threaded said:
AMD_Athlon_Pencil_Trick.jpg
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AMD_Athlon_Pencil_Trick.jpg

This is what I mean, I have a soldering iron to that can do the job better. Any thoughts? I cant figure it out in bios its locked I think thats what you haft to do to be able to overclock it since its an old CPU. Im at school so I cant tell you what the motherboard is its a Asus thats all I know ATM.
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Usually it unlocks voltage increases, but I'm not exactly sure how you go about utilizing it in the BIOS.
 
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