What is "Frequency Multiplier Locked"?

[BehindEnemyLines]

It was written on the back case of my computer and I don't have a manual for it, what does it mean? Thanks

 

[Mday]

well, there are 2 things involved in your processor speed. The front side bus (FSB) which is the speed at which the processor and the chipset operate at. and a multiplier which when multiplied by the FSB gives you the MHz of the processor.

Say your processor is a Pentium 3 450 MHz. It has a 100 MHz FSB, and a 4.5 multiplier. The fixed multiplier prevents remarking of processors and a certain way of overclocking.

So, the 4.5 is fixed. This means that a vendor cannot remark the processor package and sell it as a 600 Mhz or whatnot. And this prevents end users from overclocking it to anything else, unless the FSB itself is changed.

 

[Tonec]

Mday explanation is correct. Depending on what mobo you have, the fsb can be manipulated. But you may want to hold off on overclocking until you read up a little on it. Most of the members here are overclockers