Gigabyte Via-Kt400 series unlocks muliplier?

[scottchen]

I used to use a Gigabyte ga7v8xp-a motherboard, and with my Barton 2500+ multiplier can be pushed to 17*, but I got a new Asus A7n8x nForce2 and the best I could push the multiplier is 12.5*. I'm just curious, does Gigabyte use some kind of technology to unlock the multipliers? I also made sure the multipliers were true using wcpuid. Anybody else noticed this?

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[svol]

It could be that the Gigabyte board uses a 5 bit multiplier overwriting thingy... I've seen it on resent Abit boards too.

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[scottchen]

Svol can you please explain that a little bit?

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[svol]

Sertain boards use some kind of BIOS future to overwrite the Athlons XP T-bred/Bartons multiplier setting when it boots up and therefore allows you to use all multipliers.

I'm 100% sure the Abit NF7-S board has this future, dunno about your board though.

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