Non-mobile Barton's multiplier freely adjustable?

[Nickel020]

I have a 2800+ Barton that I bought in late September last year (before they started to permanently lock the multiplier), but what I find quite strange is that I am not even using the wire trick and I can freely adjust the multiplier in the BIOS ( I have tried 7, 8, 9, 10, 10.5 and 11 so far, all work, confirmed by CPU-Z).
Has this happened to anyone else or was I just very lucky and got a "special" CPU? I always thought that you had to use the wire trick or it wouldn't work.

 

[myocardia]

No, you only needed the wire trick if your motherboard didn't support multiplier adjustments. Almost all of the nForce2 boards do support it, so as long as your multiplier isn't "hard-locked", you can set it at any multiplier that your motherboard supports.

 

[PCTweaker5]

Originally posted by: Nickel020
I have a 2800+ Barton that I bought in late September last year (before they started to permanently lock the multiplier), but what I find quite strange is that I am not even using the wire trick and I can freely adjust the multiplier in the BIOS ( I have tried 7, 8, 9, 10, 10.5 and 11 so far, all work, confirmed by CPU-Z).
Has this happened to anyone else or was I just very lucky and got a "special" CPU? I always thought that you had to use the wire trick or it wouldn't work.

OK did you really build that PC by yourself?

 

[zeevik]

Hi,

I have a Barton 2500 (since August 2003), attached to a GA-7n400L MBoard.
The available FSB settings are upto 300MHz (I could get only to 205 MHz )
I couldn't find any option to change the multiplier via BIOS.

Is there some hidden option. or I have to change some DIP-switch on the MBoard ?

Thanks.

Zeev

 

[o1die]

Your board may not have any adjustment for the multiplier.

 

[zeevik]

Thanks.

 

[juror1]

changing multipliers is probably thru dip switches.....gigabyte is known for dip switches

hidden options is i think cntrl/f1 depressed together in BIOS