Pentium 2 unlocked!!!

[quegyboe]

Hey all, I just traded my Celeron 300A for a Pentium II 333, and to my surprise, this CPU is multiplyer unlocked! I thought all Intel's were locked internally? I can clock this puppy to 400 Mhz (6x66), but the cache disables itself at that speed, so I don't think there is any performance gain. I am gonna do the pin mod to this CPU to get it to auto-detect 100Mhz FSB...then I should have some fun!

[oops]

you poor thing "having fun with a PII 333MHZ".......good luck on saving for next chip :)

[Molybdym]

Eah, to each their own, I'd have fun with an unlocked Intel chip, if only for my smug sense of happiness at stickin' it to the man!

[cack01]

If I remember correctly, early PII's were all multiplier unlocked.

[quegyboe]

Yes I AM enjoying my Intel. I have only ever had AMD, and recently decided I want an Intel sys. I am saving for a P4 sys, and this is just holding me over.

[Toysrme]

Anthing under a PII350 should be multi unlocked. They didn't start locking the PII350's until a few weeks into production. I have one as a file server and it is locked <g> PII350@464

The week at which the PII350 started being locked was the week in which production of the PII400's which came locked coninsideed if I remember right(maby not), but being made on the same die that's when they should have started being made locked.

-Toysrme

[deez]

some early model p2 266, 300, and 333 were unlocked but most were not...nice find quegyboe have fun

[looktall]

after august 1998 all multipliers were locked.
anything from before that date is potluck.
some were locked, some weren't and some were partially locked.

i had a PII 300 that was partially locked. you could lower, but not raise the multiplier.

[s[H]sIkuA]

Mine is locked

[Lt. Max]

my bros p2 300 locked too :(

[batboy]

Looktall is correct, the early P-II CPUs were unlocked, but after August 1998, all Intel processors were locked. I've had two P-II 233, one was unlocked and one was locked. My unlocked 233 would easily do 300 with default voltage. Not many 300 CPUs were unlocked, so congrats.

[breez]

I had an PII 350 that was partially locked. Ran it at 3x133MHz.