Overclock AMD XP w/o connecting L1 bridges??

[Mavrick007]

How much can you overclock the Athlon XP without filling in the "trenches" and then connecting the L1 bridges? I was curious cause it seems that alot of people have been overclocking their cpus and not everyone has connected them. I'm about to get an 1800+ cpu and was wondering how far I could get without filling in the trenches to release the higher multiplier.

 

[Rand]

Filling in the trenches and unlocking the multiplier doesnt mean you processor is inherently any better of an overclocker then it would otherwise have been. In all likelyhood you will be able to overclock to approximately the same speed irregardless of whether you inlock the multiplier or not. The only advantage to filling in the trenches is that you will be able to overclock via the multiplier rather then only FSB. Naturally overclocking via the multiplier is a safer alternative due to the fact that you won't be forced to rum the memory bus/PCI/AGP bus out of spec as you would by overclocking the FSB alone.