Will this work with the barton?

[Xionide]

I came across this article and was wondering if that cpu compound idea works good. And I was wondering if it worked on the barton.

-Xionide

 

[Overkiller]

barton should come unlocked....i think

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: Xionide
I came across this article and was wondering if that cpu compound idea works good. And I was wondering if it worked on the barton.

-Xionide

depend on your mobo, it will be unlocked

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim

Originally posted by: Xionide
I came across this article and was wondering if that cpu compound idea works good. And I was wondering if it worked on the barton.

-Xionide

depend on your mobo, it will be unlocked

I have a msi kt4v-l kt400 chipset. So i doubt it will be automatically unlocked.

 

[Xionide]

Another question. Can I just use the pencil trick once I have the bridge filled?

-Xionide

 

[mindwreck]

yes, if im not mistaken, as long as u use a pencil with conductive lead

 

[GUN]

Oh no, don't tell me the bartons are locked !?

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: GUN
Oh no, don't tell me the bartons are locked !?

I am constantly tossed around about this locked unlocked thing. Some places say the chips are all locked some say some are unlocked and some say they are partially locked. But I really dont have the slightes idea if they are or not.

-Xionide

 

[KF]

Let's see if I can make this locking thing clear.

People are using the word "unlocked" in a generic way to mean "enable", so it has come to mean several different things for Athlons.

Originally Intel "locked" the multiplier on their CPUs, so that it was impossible to reset the multiplier at all.

Tbred B's, and I guess now Bartons, are unlocked in the original sense. There are bridges on the chip that connect the multiplier circuitry on the chip to certain socket pins. Then your motherboard could set any multiplier, provided the mobo has the circuitry and the BIOS has the settings. (And I think that KT400 mobo should have the needed circuitry.) The problem was: quite a lot of pretty recent mobos did not implement the ability to set one out of the possible five multiplier pins. (Older Athlon's had only 4.) Therefore certain multipliers were not available. If the CPU came with multiplier of 12.5 or less people thought it was "locked" to the lower multipliers, and if it came with a multiplier of 13 or more, it supposedly was "locked" to the higher multipliers, although the CPU was really not locked: the mobo was deficient. Depending on which set of multpliers you want, there are mods that you can do to the CPU, or the mobo, or the socket. What they do is set the multiplier fifth bit.