Athlon unlock kit...

[godmare]

Anybody have any experience with This stuff?
I'm chiefly interested in anyone's experience as pertains to the bridges not hardening or anything of that nature. It looks simple to use....
Thanks a lot for your input

 

[joe4324]

I got this about two weeks ago. I like it. One thing to be prepared for though, that picture looks big. But in reality all that stuff is TINY. TINY TINY. the kit comes in an envelope thats all I have to say.

But dont let that discourage you because there is more here then you would need to unlock 20 cpus if you dont waste it. I used it and I got my Xp1600+ unlocked second try!

Now I'm runing a XP1600+ at 1.8Ghz.

 

[godmare]

Excellent, thanks

has anyone had any bad experiences?

 

[pbroussard]

I initially thought that being a grease, it wouldn't hold up. But after hearing some respected opinions, I changed my mind. Ordered a couple other things, so shipping was taken out of the pic. Unlocked on first try, ran for a few months. When I finally got a good stick of ram, I made a run to the 3k club, where the unlock started to go flaky on me.

So, I won't be using it anymore, but love the little magnifying glass, since I didn't have one.

Paul

 

[The Sauce]

For a measley $40 more you can have a 1700 TB which comes unlocked

 

[BeaverTooth]

I have read on several web boards that the AMD T-bred "A" and "B" procs come unlocked for higher multiplieres. I have since read that if you have a KT400 or nForce2 based mobo and T-bred chip it is completely unlocked (Higher and LOWER multipliers) so long as you have the newest bios update for most boards. Here is a snipet of what I saw at guru3d.com

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Epox has made it possible to have processors that are multiplier unlocked on AMD retail Athlons. This means you will be able to overclock your CPU just by plugging in it into the board, and then overclocking at will, because of the voltage and other settings Epox includes.


I have seen many web posts supporting this. At first it seemed to work like this. The T-breds come factory unlocked for the HIGHER multis. Meaning you can get multipliers 13+. Now the abit/epox kt400 boards will unlock them for ALL multis. There is no need to connect ANY bridges. If you connect the last bridge of the L3s You lose access to the higher multis and only have access to 12.5 and below. If you wanted your T-bred fully unlocked just pop it into one of the new abit/epox motherboards it's just that simple. From what I have seen since it now works with all KT400 and nForce2 boards. Because of money woe my new system won't be up until late January so I can't test this myself, but maybe there is someone on these boards who can? Someone with a nForce2 board or a KT400?