SIMA Installation

The installation is easy and well described in the manual.


Remove the old CPU.


Change the BIOS chips to use the right BIOS for your CPU. Getting the chips out is a bit tricky. But if you use common sense and not brute force even novices can do it.


Install CPU, memory and CPU cooler on the SIMA card. I skipped the CPU cooler installation here to get you better pictures.


Remove ALL black jumpers, so that the signals are properly routed to the SIMA card instead of the CPU socket.


Put SIMA card into slot and connect the small cooling fan.


A big problem I see with this add-on card is that you can only use small CPU coolers. The Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 is the smallest cooler I had. Installing something like a Zalman CNPS7000 or Thermalright XP-120 is not possible.

What is really cool is that you do not have to reinstall Windows after changing to the CPU card. Windows will just work with the completely different architecture.