who has unlocked AMD?

[0JK0]

Did any of you guys unlocked your amd before overlocking?

 

[pspada]

Naw, the newer motherboards unlock the chips without any physical mods necessary.

 

[0JK0]

Is Asus A7N8X Deluxe rev. 1.3 considered new in this case?

 

[x-kid]

yea that board should be able to unlock tbreds and bartons

 

[maluckey]

I have a few unlocked, and overclocked. I have 1 Palomino XP-1600, a Palomino 1800, and a T-Bred XP-2100, all unlocked by surgery.

 

[slikk]

Is it only the NForce2 board that can unlock the AMD XP or are there other chipset that can do it too?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: slikk
Is it only the NForce2 board that can unlock the AMD XP or are there other chipset that can do it too?

some kt400 boards can do it as well

 

[TerryMathews]

All recent AMD processors are unlocked. Some motherboards can't address all of the multipliers properly. A failing of the motherboard, not the processor.

 

[JSSheridan]

A portion of A7N8X boards, like mine, don't fully unlock the multipliers. I just have the mult's from 13 and up available to me, and it's a Deluxe 1.04 model, btw. Your mileage may vary. Peace.

 

[0roo0roo]

wiremod and nothing else for 1800+ @ 17x multiplier

 

[slikk]

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[JBT]

my T Bred B 1700 and A7N8X Dlx Rev 2 unlocked 12.5 and lower. anyting above doesn't work quite right.....

 

[TerryMathews]

Again, this is a failing of the board.

Basically, the multiplier is controlled by 5 bits. 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 4x, and 8x each have a pin on the chip. Some boards only implement 4 of the 5 override lines. Problems arise when you use a processor that has a default multiplier of 13x or more. Since your board doesn't mess with the 5th bit (8x) it can't go lower than 13x. Even more problematic, some boards permaset the 8x bit low.

All new AMD procs are unlocked at the factory. This is easily verifiable. Just look to see if your L1s are cut.