Abit KT7 ? When? Should i buy duron 650 now or later? Will AMD CHANGE cpu?

[rigor]

Okay now that the KT7 officially supports softmenu III BIOS multiplier unlock (see www.abit.com.tw announcement). Should I buy a duron 650 now? Do you think AMD will redesign the chip soon to be tolerant of this hack? Or should I wait for prices on 650 to go down.

Any tips on where to get (order and ship) a duron 650 in US is welcome too. I think AMD will change the duron/athlon soon if these mobo people are gonna hax0r their multipliers in software. What do you guys think? they will be selling a $100 chip that will hold on close to their $1000 chip, which will lead to ALOT of black market chip renaming etc.

I could hack an ABIT bios, change the multiplier in hardware, and sell a system that says its a Athlon 950 or so, and perform damn near close to it, for MANY hundreds less,and the consumers wouldn't know.

I highly doubt this will be allowed, especially after the aggressive "Re-labeling" scheme with the original pentium-2 300!

 

[da loser]

well if you're that paranoid Just buy it, prices may come down $25 or so to the duron 600 when the 750 and 800 get released.

I seriously doubt that they would change their cpus.

Because the whole point of remarking is to sell a chip not a system. I mean why would you want all this overhead to sell a couple systems? So the bios statement is flawed.

I think AMD purposely left it easy to do with the pins because they found a easy temporary solution. And had earlier promised us no multiplier locks. I think us because who else would want to change their multiplier? major OEM's hopefully wouldn't.

Also a duron is cheap, no point in remarking. So only a thunderbird would be remarked. I don't believe it would be possible to change a duron into a thunderbird , that would be cool though, Saturn?? haha

So it all depends upon how easy it is to change the pin connections, if they indeed set the multiplier. I would think that would be the major deciding factor.