Athlon XP - Locked or not?

[jlbigguy]

Has AMD started multiplier locking on the Bartons? Anyone know for sure? Any articles released on this?

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[pitsi]

Yes it has. But it doesn't matter if you have an nForce2 board and DDR400 memory.

 

[jlbigguy]

So, any overclocking that I might try is by the FSB only?

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[pIII_Man]

yup


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[darko21]

overclocking via fsb is the best way to overclock anyway so long as the rest of your system can handel it. xp2500 have been multipler locked for a while now and most of the newer xp cpu's are now locked as well.

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[pitsi]

Exactly!

 

[psykoikonov]

overclocking via fsb is the best way to overclock anyway

Which is exactly why they need to be <b>unlocked</b>. For instance the 2500+ with multi 11 often tops @ 2.2GHz which is 200fsb (on virtually stock voltage and proper air cooling), however mine is @ 2.2GHz but it gets it from 10.5 x 210. Simple. It's still an amazing increase just by fsb (166-200) without multi adjust but you can go alot further with good ram and multi down.

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[darko21]

You gota a point.. What I meant is overclocking via FSB is the best way to go instead of just uping the multipier.

psykoikonov did you really think I was implying hes better off with the multiplier locked? Yes psykoikonov the higher the fsb the better the better the performance when any two cpu's are running at = speed MHz.

Maybe people will figure out how to unlock them, but for now athlonxp buyers are stuck

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[psykoikonov]

psykoikonov did you really think I was implying hes better off with the multiplier locked? Yes psykoikonov the higher the fsb the better the better the performance when any two cpu's are running at = speed MHz.

I was hoping not, wanted to make sure everyonelse reading this understood as well.

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