You can push it a little (sometimes pretty good), but to go to extreme performance levels you have to unlock it by joining the L1 bridges that were laser cut.
Don't just fill the pit with a conductive substance, as some of the internal traces may be exposed in the crater and you can get into problems.
Fill the craters with an insulator (nail polish will work) and connect the dots: one above with one below (never sideways) by using a conductive trace repair ink.
( $ 12.95 at Frye's)
When the CPU is locked they just use an IR laser to cut through the circuit trace path to set clock speeds. Usually a test will tell them where the CPU will 'Max' out, and
they set it below that, so it runs with a safe performance margin. However - sometimes there is an abundance of really good chips from a batch, so they cut down a lot
of the really good performers to meet a lot shipment quantity - hence, all those "XP1600+ Green AROIA's" that came to be - that would unlock and run as if they were XP2100+'s. Seeing the same trend with the AGOGA's and AGOIA's.
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