Article exaggerates. What they show, without explaining what they're accomplishing, is "connecting the AJ27 and AH28 socket pins", with a conductive trace on the mobo, which is exactly what the famous "u-loop wire trick" on the other side of the socket has been doing for months and months...and same as connecting the bases of those CPU pins with conductive ink., another long known mod.
And btw, this mod is not a substitute for closing Palomino's open L1 bridges. All it does is ground the 5th bit, reset it LO in the event it's HI by default for Palomino 2100 and Tbred 2200 and up. It does "nothing", yes "nothing for CPUs with default Multipliers 12.5X and lower like 2000s and down, where some people with slow memory want to "raise" the default multiplier from less than 12.5X to 13X and up.
So hope y'all agree the article is vague /not clear in what it's doing. Why didn't they just say "here's another way to implement the wire trick". Modding the 5th bit LO from HI just "changes the default Multiplier to less than 12.5X", to the low 5X -12.5X range, where castrated mobos which can't access the low range with CPUs 13X and up default Multipliers...then can change Multipliers in that range...if and as long as L1s are closed.
John C.