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Where does a Golden Fingers card plug into the Athlon?

April 26, 2017athlon card fingers Golden PLUG

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Where does a Golden Fingers card plug into the Athlon?

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The Athlon is manufactured with an edge connector on the top corner of the PCB. The Golden Fingers device is a card that fits onto this connector and overrides the resistor settings on the PCB. As a result, the user can use DIP switches to manipulate both the multiplier of the CPU and the voltage. The card is unable to manipulate the L2 cache divisor, however. Because the Athlon is shipped with a plastic casing that covers the PCB (and thus the edge connector) the casing must be removed before the overclocking card can be utilized. Removing the casing involves breaking it away from the pins that hold it on.