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People would have done it "just because." I remember seeing people figure out how to unlock Celerons for SMP, and it involved a drill press and jumper wires. It's pretty hard to un-blow fuses.
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Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP. -
and, after the Celeron II was released it became almost impossible to modify them for SMP, as they moved all of that stuff onto the die iirc... would take quite the tools to modify the die to enable these things even if they did exist on the processor die...
and, if they didn't move it onto the die it would still take quite the effort to unlock it..."And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz
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There's a site that Hardocp.com has linked that shows pics of a 2.4 with HT enabled....so someone did it.System Specs:
Gigabyte 8INXP - Pentium 4 2.8@3.4 - 1GB Corsair 3200 XMS - Enermax 550W PSU - 2 80GB WDs 8MB cache in RAID 0 array - 36GB Seagate 15.3K SCSI boot drive - ATI AIW 9700 - M-Audio Revolution - 16x Pioneer DVD slot load - Lite-On 48x24x48x CD-RW - Logitech MX700 - Koolance PC2-601BW case - Cambridge MegaWorks 550s - Mitsubishi 2070SB 22" CRT
Our Father, who 0wnz heaven, j00 r0ck!
May all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
Give us this day our warez, mp3z, and pr0n through a phat pipe.
And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz,
just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us.
For j00 0wn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever, 4m3n.Comment
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Actually, hardocp says that nobody else has been able to do it yet, including themselves. It wouldn't be the first, or even the tenth, time that somebody has passed Photoshopped WCPUID pictures around. Notice also that they picture shows two processors. That means Xeon, which has been HT for a while.
If there's a die fuse blown, there's not likely anything a BIOS can do to get around it.Last edited by Wombat; 13 November 2002, 22:16.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Yeah, the pics could be fake and they never said how they did it, but they said it was a regular P4 2.4GHz. And it was VRZone that said they did it themselves (I think that's who it was, not sure, I just got in and I'm a bit drunk), and they seem to be a respectable site. Dunno what they would have to gain by lying about it. Oh well, maybe they'll tell us later on how they did it or maybe we'll never know. HT isn't that big of a deal anyway IMO. Probably turn out to be like MMX or something and just mainly be a bunch of Intel hooplah.System Specs:
Gigabyte 8INXP - Pentium 4 2.8@3.4 - 1GB Corsair 3200 XMS - Enermax 550W PSU - 2 80GB WDs 8MB cache in RAID 0 array - 36GB Seagate 15.3K SCSI boot drive - ATI AIW 9700 - M-Audio Revolution - 16x Pioneer DVD slot load - Lite-On 48x24x48x CD-RW - Logitech MX700 - Koolance PC2-601BW case - Cambridge MegaWorks 550s - Mitsubishi 2070SB 22" CRT
Our Father, who 0wnz heaven, j00 r0ck!
May all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
Give us this day our warez, mp3z, and pr0n through a phat pipe.
And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz,
just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us.
For j00 0wn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever, 4m3n.Comment
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WOW.. now minesweeper will be oh so much zippier!Comment
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Well, Hardocp.com has a nice article about HT and I was actually a bit surprised about it. They did leave out the fact that HT will drastically decrease performance in some areas for the CPU, but overall it looks like a clear winner. Heh, but not winner enough to justify the hefty price tag Intel is putting on its 3GHz. Has Hardocp become an Intel whore??
System Specs:
Gigabyte 8INXP - Pentium 4 2.8@3.4 - 1GB Corsair 3200 XMS - Enermax 550W PSU - 2 80GB WDs 8MB cache in RAID 0 array - 36GB Seagate 15.3K SCSI boot drive - ATI AIW 9700 - M-Audio Revolution - 16x Pioneer DVD slot load - Lite-On 48x24x48x CD-RW - Logitech MX700 - Koolance PC2-601BW case - Cambridge MegaWorks 550s - Mitsubishi 2070SB 22" CRT
Our Father, who 0wnz heaven, j00 r0ck!
May all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
Give us this day our warez, mp3z, and pr0n through a phat pipe.
And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz,
just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us.
For j00 0wn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever, 4m3n.Comment
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I can't believe that you all give up so easy. Just kidnapp Paul & Oboy! Then again its probably not worth it.
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good idea but have you seen those rocketlaunchers DJ?
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Plus, you would have to feed us.
You've never seen Oboy and I at an "All You can eat Buffet". 
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.....ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself"Comment
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You'd go poor trying to feed them! LOLOriginally posted by DJ
I can't believe that you all give up so easy. Just kidnapp Paul & Oboy! Then again its probably not worth it.
DJ
Titanium is the new bling!
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No I would not. I would just sell my unlocking secrets to the Highest bidder!
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