so i have a applebred 1.6 at home, how to unlocked?

[dannybin1742]

are they unlocked, or can they be unlocked?

i ask this, cause i can run it stable at 1.3V, so it must have some headroom at 1.5V

 

[Yanagi]

pardon my ignorance but whats the thorton? Mix between thouroghsbred and Barton? Kind of sounds like that to me.. oh well

 

[dannybin1742]

is the .13 duron, chances are the cache didn't work in a barton or thoroughbred so they badged it as a thorton (128kb l2 cache)

its very fast for a $38 processor

 

[dannybin1742]

anyone?

 

[Gamingphreek]

Its probably unlocked. But imnot sure, why dont you just check and see in the BIOS.

-Kevin

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

locked. it has 256k of on die cache activated but you can mod it to have 512k. its basically a first gen barton but it has slightly different pipelines. consider it a first revision barton

ts not a duron. it was made for athlon xp 2000-2400+

 

[dannybin1742]

i'm sorry, its an applebred, my mistake

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: dannybin1742
i'm sorry, its an applebred, my mistake

If it was made after about week 36 of last year, it's probably locked. I got one up to about 2.4GHz on 1.8V and crappy cooling (stock AMD cooler from an old XP 2000+ and a slightly quieter, more powerful fan).

 

[Budman]

Yes they overclock very well,I got one here in my little server box that does 2ghz on default voltage 1.5v.

easy OC , just up the fsb from 133 to 166.

 

[dannybin1742]

all my ram is kingmax generic 768mb, also has anyone tried to hardwired their durong to use all the 256kb of cache? i've seen a few forums that have members that have doen this.

here is a link to somone who did this successfully

 

[dannybin1742]

looks like just a bridge needs to be connected to activate all the cache

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: dannybin1742
looks like just a bridge needs to be connected to activate all the cache

it's a lot smaller & harder than it looks,I tried on mine but I could not enable the extra cache.

 

[dannybin1742]

ok so its not unlocked, there were multiplyer adjustments in the bios, i switched it lower, and the computer didn't like it and still botted at 1600mhz

is there a way to unlock these? i know on my other xp, i filled in the pits on the L2? bridges (can't remeber, my barton i have now is unlocked) or is there a cheap adapter that will let me do this, i remeber a while back that tomshardware reviews an axp unocking socket.

 

[Budman]

nope they cant be unlocked.

Just up the fsb to 166mhz you'll get 400 free mhz.

 

[dannybin1742]

even with that adapter that was reviewed on tomshardware a year or so back?

link to adapter

 

[JeremiahTheGreat]

Perhaps this will work

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/guides/unlockwk43update/ocw_unlocking_xp39+.html