How difficult is the DIP switch method?
From the looks of it, performing this modification would make the aforementioned resistor manipulation look easy. Soldering resistors isn’t exactly child’s play, but now you’re soldering 32 wires to those resistor locations, and then soldering them onto the DIP switches. If you want to manipulate the cache divisor, you’ll be doing even more soldering. Fortunately, however there are individuals who will do it for you. The cost is currently around $100 when you supply the CPU. Shell out the cash and all you need to overclock is a ball point pen to flip the switches. However, if the CPU doesn’t want to overclock very well, you’re basically out of luck. Once the modification is done, it’s highly doubtful the CPU could be returned to its original state without it being fairly obvious that the modification had been performed. Thus, returning the chip for a hopefully more overclockable one isn’t likely to happen. While this method is more flexible than the first one, it is still less than ide
