Duron 1300 Locked?

[tnadrev]

In tom's review he said that the duron he received was locked (unlockable)... could this be where AMD is going with all their chips? there might be some angry OCers... especially if the t-breds are locked... (unlockable)
anyone know anything about this?


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[jihiggs]

the thunder birds were locked, it can be over come with a specific type of pencil, dont know if the same can be done on durons.

i went to the tomshardware forums and all i got was this lousy signature.

 

[tnadrev]

i am reffering to tom's latest benchmark review

In the routine overclocking tests, we noticed that the multiplier of the Duron 1300 was locked. Even after bridging the L1 contacts, we still weren't able to release the multiplier. We investigated the Duron 1300 together with many of the latest motherboards with the VIA KT266A chipset as well as the SiS 735 chipset. However, the results were always the same: adjusting the multiplier to below 13.0 hampered the bootup process, while CPU settings of 14.0 or 15.0 (pseudo-multipliers) were promptly ignored.
<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020121/duron1300-03.html" target="_new">El Cheapouron 1300 vs. Celeron 1300</A>

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[Matisaro]

I doubt it, need more information from other reviewers.

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