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  • Unlocking Athlon motherboards by wiring the socket?

    When I read about this the first time, it was still a developing art. It should be pretty defined by now, so does anybody have a guide?
    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.

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    There's an intriguing reference to BIOSs that allow unlocking of mulitpliers - anyone know which boards they are for?

    Thanks

    T.
    FT.

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    • #4
      Seems eazy, might test it
      If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

      Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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      • #5
        There's an intriguing reference to BIOSs that allow unlocking of mulitpliers - anyone know which boards they are for?
        Every decent nforce2 motherboard but only with T-bred B CPU´s. Asus is a bit complicated because sometimes it only allows to access the higher multipliers and MSI is lacking that feature, AFAIK.

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        • #6
          Originally posted by Nuno
          Every decent nforce2 motherboard but only with T-bred B CPU´s. Asus is a bit complicated because sometimes it only allows to access the higher multipliers and MSI is lacking that feature, AFAIK.
          So they can be unlocked WITHOUT the wire trick, or they're the only ones that can be done w/ the wire trick?

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          • #7
            T-bred B´s (2400+ upwards) will be fully unlocked with most of nforce2 boards, without need for the wire trick. At least Epox, Abit, Soltet do it. Asus does have some troubles - sometimes it does, sometime it doesn´t, don´t know if they already fixed it with a bios release.

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            • #8
              Multiplier locking is a physical thing on the chips traces, that's why the wire trick work.

              I can't really see how that could be changed in bios, and besides IF there was posible to do through BIOS se'd seen tons of hacked bios'es
              If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

              Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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              • #9
                Originally posted by Technoid
                I can't really see how that could be changed in bios...
                Well they can, it seems to be only KT400 and nForce 2 boards that have this feature so I guess the chipset must have something to do with it too
                When you own your own business you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours.

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                • #10
                  Multiplier locking is a physical thing on the chips traces, that's why the wire trick work.

                  I can't really see how that could be changed in bios, and besides IF there was posible to do through BIOS se'd seen tons of hacked bios'es
                  Again, that´s why it only works for T-bred B´s! All other socket A cpu´s are hard-locked and must be modded in order to change the multipliers.

                  From: http://www.8rdafaq.com/

                  Unlocking the Athlon XP (Thoroughbred A, Thoroughbred B,, and Barton core)

                  If you are an owner of any recent motherboard (All Epox Nforce2 boards included) you do not need to unlock your Thoroughbred or Barton processor. This is done automatically through a software trick built into board. If you look carefully, you can see that the L1 traces on these chips are already connected! (via the green traces seen below).
                  Go to some forums like www.amdmb.com and see how many people are unlocking their T-bred B´s with nforce2 boards.

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                  • #11
                    Yup! That's true... L1 traces are connected on all Tbred-B's... You can easily change the processors SUB_ID by cutting L3 traces...
                    Here's a link.
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                    • #12
                      the barton xp2500 seems to be unlocked on an iwill xp333


                      another dawg basking in the sun

                      iwill xp333-r, xp2500@ 340ddr :need better ram

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                      • #13
                        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.

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                        • #14
                          Originally posted by cal
                          the barton xp2500 seems to be unlocked on an iwill xp333


                          http://support.iwill.net/cgi-bin/ebb...age=0&Session=
                          Uhm that's not how I read it, he say's his Barton is unlocked but that doesn't necessarily mean the board unlocks it, he could have modded the chip

                          Nice to see another XP333-R user here
                          When you own your own business you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours.

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