Are the XP 3200+ still unlocked?

Geminiwave · Sep 22, 2004, 07:43 PM

Heyyy I remembered that the 3200+'s were unlocked when they came out. I was just wondering if they still were. anyone know?

*crosses fingers*

TaWasNe · Sep 22, 2004, 08:02 PM

Try here this is where i got my XP3000+ Barton unlocked from

http://www.cpucitystore.co.uk/catalog/

hope this helps

Geminiwave · Sep 22, 2004, 10:02 PM

hmm those are expensive :-\ Maybe I'll take my chances with a stock 3200+

drakesteakn · Sep 22, 2004, 10:08 PM

ur lucky to find a athlon XP that is unlocked. the mobile ones are unlocked and they just put out a 3000+ model.

TaWasNe · Sep 23, 2004, 02:29 AM

I got my XP3000+ Barton unlocked from here about 7 month ago but they did not have the mobile ones in at the time or i would have gone for one of them.

Come to think of it i'll order one now as a backup CPU the Prise of them is not bad at all i think it the only place u will get it that. better paying £5 or 10 more to get one or find out u have missed out on it.

CDsDontBurn · Sep 23, 2004, 02:54 AM

if i were to get a mobile chip, i'd get the 2500/2600 barton mobile. best bang for the buck.

Shinjikun · Sep 23, 2004, 10:49 AM

I could have sworn that certain nForce2 boards like the A7N8X series can unlock a multiplier on an Athlon XP processor no matter what.

Geminiwave · Sep 23, 2004, 11:32 AM

yeah before they did the superlocking.

Actually Asus has been spreading rumors that they found a way to unlock it on motherboards. This would be very interesting if its true.

Shinjikun · Sep 23, 2004, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Geminiwave

yeah before they did the superlocking.

Actually Asus has been spreading rumors that they found a way to unlock it on motherboards. This would be very interesting if its true.

Superlocking? Interesting, I haven't heard of that before.

Geminiwave · Sep 23, 2004, 11:55 AM

Shinji have you been living in a hole? Has piloting huge mechs and crying in the corner of a dark room with your dead mother made you completely ignorant to the goings on of the world?

lol im just messin around Shinji :-D

okay the deal is that for awhile they had this one kind of locking that make it so you cant take your multiplier up. Then another where you cant move it at all. Both of these were breakable.

Then they came up with one that is locked from inside the chip with no way of fixing it. Except there was. The method I remember back when I got my processor in the spring was very VERY difficult. Every time you wanted to change the multiplier, you had to take off the insulation of one of the copper contacts on the top of the processor and shock it with a small amount of electricity(with some special tool) and that would program it to change multipliers. Now this changed it once and you had to do a similar thing to change it AGAIN. this really REALLY sucked as you can tell.

Well later someone realized that mobile processors are unlocked(for good reason) and he found out that there isnt any difference between normal procs and mobile procs. So he found the proper settings and connected two contacts via the pencil trick and VOILA! he now has a "mobile" processor with an unlocked multiplier.

its annoying though. BUT I understand why AMD did it.

Shinjikun · Sep 23, 2004, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Geminiwave

Shinji have you been living in a hole? Has piloting huge mechs and crying in the corner of a dark room with your dead mother made you completely ignorant to the goings on of the world?

lol im just messin around Shinji :-D

That was awesome.

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Originally Posted by Geminiwave

okay the deal is that for awhile they had this one kind of locking that make it so you cant take your multiplier up. Then another where you cant move it at all. Both of these were breakable.

Then they came up with one that is locked from inside the chip with no way of fixing it. Except there was. The method I remember back when I got my processor in the spring was very VERY difficult. Every time you wanted to change the multiplier, you had to take off the insulation of one of the copper contacts on the top of the processor and shock it with a small amount of electricity(with some special tool) and that would program it to change multipliers. Now this changed it once and you had to do a similar thing to change it AGAIN. this really REALLY sucked as you can tell.

Well later someone realized that mobile processors are unlocked(for good reason) and he found out that there isnt any difference between normal procs and mobile procs. So he found the proper settings and connected two contacts via the pencil trick and VOILA! he now has a "mobile" processor with an unlocked multiplier.

its annoying though. BUT I understand why AMD did it.

I never knew that about the XP's. That unlocking 'method' sounds pretty sick.

Geminiwave · Sep 23, 2004, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Geminiwave

Shinji have you been living in a hole? Has piloting huge mechs and crying in the corner of a dark room with your dead mother made you completely ignorant to the goings on of the world?

Shinji is such an emo boy. The series was great until he got too emotional and weepy imho.

still a great series no matter what

(plus when i was 14 I watched it for the first time and it got BANNED from the house

)

Shinjikun · Sep 23, 2004, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Geminiwave

Shinji is such an emo boy. The series was great until he got too emotional and weepy imho.

still a great series no matter what

(plus when i was 14 I watched it for the first time and it got BANNED from the house

)

LOL, tell me about it.

I love the series from begining to end. The only disapointment for me was Episodes 25 and 26 from the original TV series conclusion. I was part of the majority who was let down by that ending. Beyond that the series and the movies remains my favorite of all time.

I understand the "Shinji is an emo whiner" argument; but I also understand the basis for that character. Amano (the director\creator) spent 4 years in a deep depression and finally emerged to create Evangelion. Shinji is a representation of what he went through as a child and during that 4 year period where he was depressed.

In the End of Evangelion however I will admit; he is a bitch... but I can respect him.

CDsDontBurn · Sep 24, 2004, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Geminiwave

Shinji have you been living in a hole? Has piloting huge mechs and crying in the corner of a dark room with your dead mother made you completely ignorant to the goings on of the world?

lol im just messin around Shinji :-D

okay the deal is that for awhile they had this one kind of locking that make it so you cant take your multiplier up. Then another where you cant move it at all. Both of these were breakable.

Then they came up with one that is locked from inside the chip with no way of fixing it. Except there was. The method I remember back when I got my processor in the spring was very VERY difficult. Every time you wanted to change the multiplier, you had to take off the insulation of one of the copper contacts on the top of the processor and shock it with a small amount of electricity(with some special tool) and that would program it to change multipliers. Now this changed it once and you had to do a similar thing to change it AGAIN. this really REALLY sucked as you can tell.

Well later someone realized that mobile processors are unlocked(for good reason) and he found out that there isnt any difference between normal procs and mobile procs. So he found the proper settings and connected two contacts via the pencil trick and VOILA! he now has a "mobile" processor with an unlocked multiplier.

its annoying though. BUT I understand why AMD did it.

For a while, AMD decided to leave their processors super unlocked where you can just go into the BIOS and set the multiplier to whatever the BIOS let you. My old xp2400 and two of my friends' xp2100 let them change their multipliers straight out of the box no mods or anything.

Geminiwave · Sep 24, 2004, 01:03 PM

yeah my friend's CPU can do that. Unfortunatly he has a POS gigabyte board with the mutliplier switches. It SUCKS! But he loves his board so more power to him.

CDsDontBurn · Sep 24, 2004, 11:09 PM

yea.....GAYgabite boards are ummmm.....GAY!!!! lol. yea, they suck. at work we have a GAYgabite 775 board w/AGP, IDE (SATA could only be used in RAID), and DDR 1. all the other 775 boards have at least PCI-E. a couple of them still have DDR 1, but for the most part, all the 775 boards we have all use DDR2 instead of DDR1.

Judas · Sep 25, 2004, 01:52 PM

i thought the same way about the gigabyte boards and the "lack" of controls through bios.. however, hitting CTRL+F1 opened my eyes rather quickly....

CDsDontBurn · Sep 25, 2004, 02:36 PM

what does CTRL + F1 do?

~~BMG_Cya=-~~ · Sep 25, 2004, 02:58 PM

My Retail box 2800+ XP (Barton) came unlocked, and also have an nForce 2 board. Lot of good it does me though. Everytime I try and o'clock using the multipliers instead of the FSB/CPU method, the clocks come out wrong.

Geminiwave · Sep 25, 2004, 03:16 PM

thats the multi being locked. It'll just screw up the clocks.

comes out like 1125ghz right? (yeah i said ghz. thats what mine alwasy showed up as when i tried to use the multi)

AMDman · Sep 27, 2004, 07:08 AM

Well, I'm using MSI K7N2 Delta L, and my Barton 2500+ suddenly change to an unlocked version. And that proc still locked on another mobo (not NF2 chipset). Maybe I'm on Sinjikun's side

Geminiwave · Sep 27, 2004, 09:21 AM

okay. the NF2 boards DO unlock chips. But only "Locked" chips. not "superlocked" so basically the ones that were locked and could be fixed by using the pencil trick on the ..uh...ARG too early. anyway a certain jumper that unlocked them. Anyway the NF2 boards eventually did it for you. But trust me...the superlocked chips are SUPERLOCKED! Not even NF2 unlocks them. Though I hold high hope seeing as it seems that ASUS has broken the security on pentium locks. OCing the multi on P4s *drool* sounds like fun :-D

Judas · Sep 27, 2004, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Pac-Man

what does CTRL + F1 do?

on gigabyte boards... they have kinda "self protected" all the major and semi major settings in the bios just in case someone decided to jump in and fidle..., this would prevent overclocking or any form of frying anything... (voltages you name it)

hitting Ctrl+F1 opens up ALL the options.... multipliers.... FSB and Memory speeds..... ratios.....

CDsDontBurn · Sep 27, 2004, 09:30 PM

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