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Final thoughts
If this is the only locking method AMD has in mind (removing the L1 connections), then there is still some good news for tweakers. It seems that it's very simple and reasonably inexpensive to reconnect these connections, and thereby fix the lock for the processor. Again: the only thing you'll have to do to unlock the Duron, is to reconnect the L1 bridges with a conductive glue or ink or something like that. If the bridges are already connected, your Duron isn't locked at all! This should also work with SocketA Thunderbird Athlons.
If you have a mainboard that already has jumpers or dipswitches to change the multiplier, tweaking the AMD Duron is very simple. If your mainboard doesn't have it, don't panic. You can make it yourself, as you can read in the article. It takes more time and energy, a stable hand and a lot of courage, but it can be done!
Our 600Mhz Duron is totally stable at 900Mhz, a 50% increase of the stock speed! Beyond that speed, heat is a very big problem. At 950Mhz the system needs watercooling with ice in the reservoir to be stable and at 1 Ghz it won't even boot Windows. Even idling in DOS kills it within 15 minutes.
In the forthcoming period we'll try to get the AMD Duron stable at 1 Ghz with the help of watercooling and/or peltiers. Even if AMD decides to remove the internal traces to the BP_FID (I wonder how they want to do that without redesigning the whole CPU, but ok) you can work that out. In that case, you have to make the connection outside the CPU, like we did before we found out that L1 was involved.
The End
The last days have been quite intense for the three of us (Jasper, Floris and Daniël). We tried very hard to make a review of a fully locked Duron, which can be overclocked easily. Furthermore, we were trying to be one of the first sites to write such an article.
The forthcoming days will be spent on finetuning the Duron and the review, so this story isn't over yet. New developments will be announced in the .plan updates. That will only be in Dutch however, unless we have some very important news to share of course
.
All that's left to say is a big thanx to Paul Hubert for giving us one of his Gigabyte mainboards for our tweaking adventures. And of course a big thanx to Jan Borger, E-Techz and troje for helping us out with translating this article!
If you have a mainboard that already has jumpers or dipswitches to change the multiplier, tweaking the AMD Duron is very simple. If your mainboard doesn't have it, don't panic. You can make it yourself, as you can read in the article. It takes more time and energy, a stable hand and a lot of courage, but it can be done!
Our 600Mhz Duron is totally stable at 900Mhz, a 50% increase of the stock speed! Beyond that speed, heat is a very big problem. At 950Mhz the system needs watercooling with ice in the reservoir to be stable and at 1 Ghz it won't even boot Windows. Even idling in DOS kills it within 15 minutes.
In the forthcoming period we'll try to get the AMD Duron stable at 1 Ghz with the help of watercooling and/or peltiers. Even if AMD decides to remove the internal traces to the BP_FID (I wonder how they want to do that without redesigning the whole CPU, but ok) you can work that out. In that case, you have to make the connection outside the CPU, like we did before we found out that L1 was involved.
The End
The last days have been quite intense for the three of us (Jasper, Floris and Daniël). We tried very hard to make a review of a fully locked Duron, which can be overclocked easily. Furthermore, we were trying to be one of the first sites to write such an article.
The forthcoming days will be spent on finetuning the Duron and the review, so this story isn't over yet. New developments will be announced in the .plan updates. That will only be in Dutch however, unless we have some very important news to share of course
.
All that's left to say is a big thanx to Paul Hubert for giving us one of his Gigabyte mainboards for our tweaking adventures. And of course a big thanx to Jan Borger, E-Techz and troje for helping us out with translating this article!
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