Athlon 2000+ info

[samgau]

Ok... I got the cpu from a customer who bought the wrong cpu/RAM to upgrade their PC, PIII =! AMD... anyway, I had it sitting on my shelf for about a year or so... I finally found a refurb ABIT NF-7 ver2 and put the rig together... the ram ended up being bad.. so I got a stick of PC3200 to go with it...

Rig boots up fine so I tried to fiddle with the fsb and multiplier.... was able to change both values, had it up to about 140x14... from the stock 133x12.5... so my question is... how come I was able to change the multiplier? not that I am complaining... I intend to push it up as high as I can... but I thought these cpus had a locked multiplier?

Thanks

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

It might be a "mobile" 2000+. Or it might be pencil-modded, although I'm not sure that's possible with an XP. Run it through CPU-Z and see what specs you come up with.

 

[samgau]

ok... I'll do that as soon as I get home... thx

 

[phaxmohdem]

The normal Palomino and T-Bred Athlon XP's ARE multiplier locked. The best way to unlock these that I have seen is to use a conductive laquer acrosseither the L1 or L3 bridges (I forget ) You may check to see if there is some silverish, or metalic paint on the top of the "plastic" part of the chip.

If not, you may have a mobile part, on hand. nothing wrong with that. CPU-z should tell you as previously mentioned.

 

[samgau]

I have the cpu-z info:
AMD Athlon XP
Thoroughbred
0.13u 1.568v

core speed 1670.4 mhz.... this value is changing back and forth between .1 and .6 is that normal?
multiplier x 12.5
fsb 133.6
bus 267.3

as far as I know this cpu has not been modded in any way or form...

 

[samgau]

ok... I went in and changed the multiplier in the bios... here is the new specs:
core speed 2004.5 mhz
multiplier x 15.0
fsb 133.6
bus 267.3

 

[Leper Messiah]

I thought the XPs that were Pre week 39 of 03 were unlocked...

 

[Mogadon]

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah
I thought the XPs that were Pre week 39 of 03 were unlocked...

I think that's only the Barton cores.

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah
I thought the XPs that were Pre week 39 of 03 were unlocked...

Yes they are ,& that's the answer ,at least T'bred B's & Bartons

Palominos & earlier need unlocking by joining bridges
Btw you can't pencil mod Tbreds even if you needed to ,those need the pits filling in with an insulator & then you join the bridges with silver paint/laquer


So what did it overclock too?:evil: