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today we're going to take a look at how you can make an LGA 771 CPU fitting an LGA 775 motherboard welcome back to tech yet City this is Bryan coming to you guys today with an interesting video this is called the LGA 771 mod and it's essentially where you cut off two little things in your motherboard pin socket and then you also put some tape over the CPU and then you can now have a cheap LGA 771 Xeon CPU working in your LGA 775 motherboard and now the benefits that come out of this is obviously you're getting a good xeon bin chip it's going to overclock really well and in most cases is going to be a lot cheaper than the q95 50 or 96 50 so quickly going through the components and equipment needed in this mod you'll need your Zeon 771 chip you'll also need some little stickers which will allow this mod to be possible these costs around a dollar each I managed to pick up five of them for three dollars I'll put the link in description below for all these components by the way and then next you'll need a blade I prefer to use an art knife this set me back about three dollars from my hardware store gives me a lot of precision and control when doing a mod like this next up in the list is your motherboard this is an LGA 775 socketed motherboard the benefits of having one of these is of course overclocking and just a great consumer motherboard lastly I like to add a little touch and that's of course to have a cheap chip laying around in this case I have an e 84 Core 2 Duo which will allow me a lot more control and a lot more safety when doing this mod as well as initially flashing the BIOS to update the BIOS on the motherboard now comes the daunting task of cutting out the side brackets on the edges there so there's two of these and you will want to take your time and be very careful so this is the part where you're gonna have to use your blade as you can see I'm using my art knife and I'm just making a real clean cut there on the edge now you will want to get this closer to the edge or closest to the edge as possible because if you don't cut off enough and your CPU may still not fit so just be careful as well now you can see that I am using the e 8400 Core 2 Duo here is kind of like a protector so if I do make a miscut then the most I have to risk losing is a $1 CPU so I think that's about what these Seabees are going for and so once you're done with one side on the cut you can just move to the other side cut that off and then essentially just wiggle away those little plastic brackets or there's little brass plastic edges there and just be very careful while you're doing this because if you do break one of the pins then your whole whole motherboard could be essentially bricked so just be very careful you see here I got a little bit of speck of dust in there it's actually not a pin even though for some odd reason it does look like a pin that's actually not a pin so that's weird that that got in there I think that was actually a bit of PCB off the core to 8,400 duo now that the most daunting part of this task is complete we can now trial fit our CPU just to make sure everything fits properly and if it doesn't fit then you may have to come back and cut out a little bit more so be very careful there however the arrow will line up in the exact same spot as it would on an LGA 775 CPU and after that does fit we're now ready to do part two of the mod so now it's time for the easiest step in this whole process and that is just to put the sticker down on the CPU and essentially what this does is allow your CPU to work on the motherboard and so once you've done that you can then use a pair of tweezers I recommend that however I couldn't find a pair of tweezers at my house so I'm just using a pen and my fingers and so you just lay down the sticker over the CPU there making sure it's over the correct pins and I will put up a reference here for you guys so you can see exactly where it should go and once that's done you're essentially good to go your CPU or Xeon CPU is now ready to be installed in the motherboard and powered up this is the last part of the tutorial and it is optional however if you do want to fully unleash your processor than I do recommend doing this it is a pretty simple process the first step involving you going to your motherboard manufacturers website and downloading the latest bios in my case it's the p5 q e rom here so i'm going to download that then I'm going to go to a website called deleted comm and download the mm tool and then below that I'm also going to download the LGA 771 micro code so just two links there I'll put that in the description below you just click that and once you've got that all in one folder you can then proceed to open up the exe and then just click load ROM and then load the latest bars that you download from your manufactures website into this program and then once that's in that you can go over to CPU patch and then click on browse and then find the place where you stored all those CPU micro codes there should be seven of them and once you've done that you can then start to apply each of them individually into the BIOS so as we can see here we click open apply and then we get on the second and do the same thing apply third one and then the fourth one and then the fifth one six one seventh one and then after we've done that we can then just check and double-check that they're in there all the seven you microcode patches that we've applied there and then we can click Save ROM as and now this is important you can save this as a different name if you want to it's what I recommend as we can see here I'm just going to call this my p5 QE z on after you've done that you can then load into the boss and you open up the flash utility program in this case I am using the azuz easy flash - after you've done that you just select the boss that you want to load in as you can see I'm loading up to 2016 custom bars that I made and let it update and erase the previous boss and then load that you want in there and you should now have a fully supported LGA 771 Xeon working in your LGA 775 motherboard so when all said and done you should have yourself a really inexpensive CPU that boasts a lot of performance for the dollar and also one thing to keep in mind is that not all biases will support the Xeon fully there may be a dropped instruction set and if you're one of those people then you may have to make yourself a custom box so I'll put the links in the description below on how you can do that and also that's about it for me today guys so if you like this video be sure to plug that thumbs up button and if you haven't ready subscribe to check your city for more tech news and reviews and I'll come back and catch you in the next one peace out for now bye