How hard is to unlock morgan-based duron?

[Priit]

Are new durons harder to unlock than the older spitfire-based ones? I might have to buy 1Ghz duron for my KG7 mobo and I would like to run it with 133Mhz FSB.

 

[yodayoda]

nope, this is where you get lucky--because the durons are still on ceramic and not organic, they can't burn pits in the chip. thus, the old pencil trick on the bridges will do the trick.

 

[Wind]

<< nope, this is where you get lucky--because the durons are still on ceramic and not organic, they can't burn pits in the chip. thus, the old pencil trick on the bridges will do the trick. >>


Yeah...the same,ever reliable pencil trick.

 

[Priit]

Thanks, that's good to hear. I tried to unlock 700Mhz duron with pencil yesterday but that didn't came out very good: sometimes mobo allowed to choose multiplier and sometimes not. After about fifth attempt to redraw bridges it only worked with default multiplier and I got bored & leave it be. Maybe than pen wasn't very good conductor...

 

[Wind]

<< sometimes mobo allowed to choose multiplier and sometimes not. >>

An indication tht not all bridges is connected properly. Redo the connections.

 

[WarCon]

The Morgan duron that I just recieved (a few weeks ago) has a distinct trench down the center of the bridges. I am not sure it would be possible to bridge it with a pencil. I am not sure if this was a fluke or what, but it sure didn't look easy to unlock.

It was for a friend anyway, and I don't overclock friends systems too much anyway(if they couldn't do it themselves). I have a 10mhz fsb increase and it is still happy and it runs great. I am really happy with it.

 

[SonicTron]

I do believe that it has been stated that AMD has employed a new, finer method of laser cutting the bridges on their Duron's. It should still unlock with pencil lead.

I recommend using the Dixon Ticonderoga brand. They have the softest #2 lead out there, and I read that it has a rating of 1ohm of resistance. I've had boxes of these for a while. I also recommend these pencils for simple writing, as they are easy spreading lead